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The Straits Times Article Rating

What are the key claims made in the leaked internal BBC memo?

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    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : By contrast, every article critical of Israel that appeared on the BBC News website was also featured on BBC Arabic.
42% : Mr Prescott noted that several contributors to the BBC's Arabic service had selectively covered stories critical of Israel.
39% : The memo also highlighted that while BBC Arabic often ran the same stories as the BBC's English-language website, there were significant differences in tone, headlines and emphasis, with coverage generally more critical of Israel.
32% : Mr Prescott also criticised the BBC for allegedly misreporting the proportion of Palestinian women and children killed by Israeli military actions, as well as for inaccurately portraying the likelihood of children facing starvation under Israel's aid blockade.
25% : The report highlighted shortcomings in the BBC's coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict, transgender issues, and its handling of Mr Trump's remarks.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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