Senior BBC figures face questions from MPs after claims of bias in leaked memo - live updates

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24% : Here's a summary of his main claims: * "Anti-Trump" bias: Prescott said the BBC's coverage of the 2024 US election was more critical of Donald Trump than of his opponent, Kamala Harris - including a misleading edit of a speech Trump delivered on 6 January 2021 * "Ill-researched" stories on racism: He said the BBC had published "ill-researched material that suggested issues of racism when there were none", including in a now-removed BBC Verify story about car insurance * Too few push alerts on migration and asylum seekers: There was a "selection bias" against sending stories about migration and asylum seekers to BBC News app users as push notifications, Prescott said * "One-sided" transgender coverage: He said the BBC had often published stories "celebrating the trans experience without adequate balance or objectivity" and had ignored certain voices * Anti-Israel bias in BBC Arabic: Several contributors to the BBC's Arabic service selectively covered stories that were critical of Israel, Prescott wrote * Broader issues in Gaza coverage: His other criticisms included misrepresenting the percentage of Palestinian women and children who have been killed by Israel's military, and misrepresenting the likelihood of children starving under Israel's aid blockade

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