BBC Launches "BBC Verify" to Stop "Misinformation"
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Who do they think they are to pretend they have any authority? What a joke, BBC. 
I avoid BBC like the plague so their "BBC Verify" just makes them look even worse. Good thing I canceled my TVL (Live TV is junk, anyway).
I don't have a tv license and don't cheat so the only time I see their programs is at my mother's house who lives nearby. I do enjoy 'Impossible' but thats about it. However their BBC website which I can use is often amateur at best and written by people clueless about what they are writing about or heavily biased. They are particularly biased about economic matters often giving one side of the argument or only partial statistics.
No license for the last eight years, would have no idea what rubbish they are pushing.
Howmuch It's about control which they don't have. Hence "BBC Verify".
BBC was a great company and now... Just sad.
PhilipMarc I realise now how little influence the BBC has on my life as I sometimes get to see quiz shows with celebrities and hardly recognise any of them. Often turns out these are so called BBC celebrities but can they be celebrities when I huge percentage of the population don't know who they are. I actually recognise many more youtube people nowadays from their channels. These so called BBC celebrities are about as famous to me as an Albanian TV presenter yet statistically younger people know less about the BBC than my older generation so the BBC will be even less significant in the future.
The BBC need to accept their lower status nowadays and the fact they have little no influence on millions of people in the UK. I mean 2 million homes stopped buying a TV license last year so that is probably about 6 million people without a TV license in their home for one year. That is a tenth of the UK population approximately. That is just one year of people stopping. I can't seem to find a proper figure for how many homes don't have a TV license and what percentage of homes that is but the 1 year cancellation figure speaks volumes.
propermanchester.com/trending/two-million-people-stopped-paying-their-bbc-tv-license-last-year/
BonzoBanana They sent me a letter to renew my No License Declaration and I just laughed at it because I canceled it so that's the end of it!
I'm tired of their games and threats they do to people.
How can the BBC News know what they are printing is accurate? Anybody especially foreign news can make up a story and call it news.
jam45 They also have their own bias. Both the Daily Express and the Guardian papers would claim to be unbiased about facts but if you go to either site they both spin it their own way to make it interesting and appealing to their type of readership and you come away with a very different view of the same news. Often they may leave out extra information which is important. I personally don't see the BBC any better than them nowadays.
This is a good idea but as others have said who’s to say that what they are publishing is factually accurate. That’s why it’s important to apply critical thinking and read a variety of sources.
I think it's great to raise the issue of fake news and educate others who may not realise how much information is manipulated (I spend alot of time reminding my son just because he hears or reads information it may not be true).
However you should always use a range of sources for information the more diverse the better......then form your own opinion.
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