BBC Drafts Personal Apology to Trump as Legal Threat Over Edited Remarks Intensifies

Overview

• British reports say the broadcaster is preparing a personal apology to the U.S. president, with lawyers crafting language to try to avoid a threatened $1 billion lawsuit over a 2024 Panorama edit.
• White House press secretary Caroline Levitt called the BBC a leftist propaganda machine and said his personal lawyers have filed a case and expect it to move forward.
• Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Parliament the corporation must get its house in order following errors highlighted by the Panorama episode.
• Director-general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness announced their resignations on November 9 after criticism of the programme’s handling of Trump’s January 2021 remarks.
• The Telegraph reports the BBC similarly edited Trump’s words in a 2022 Newsnight segment, with internal concerns allegedly dismissed at the time.