Another day, another episode of BBC Verify failing to mark its own homework. This morning they published an article covering a shocking video of men charging towards a silver BMW, forcing open its doors, and attacking those inside. BBC Verify were quick to identify those involved: an “angry crowd of white men” attacking people of “Asian heritage”. Only problem is they appear to have ‘mis-spoke’ when labelling the attacked…
Humberside Police had to tell the BBC that the people targeted by the “white angry men” were actually Eastern European, not Asian, prompting the fact-checker site to swiftly update its headline. Considering the division has 63 people with combined salary costs of £3.2 million, one would assume they were more thorough when covering contentious issues like this…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”