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US President Donald Trump has officially sued the BBC for defamation over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the US Capitol, opening an international front in his fight against media coverage he deems untrue or unfair. Trump accused Britain's publicly owned broadcaster of defaming him by splicing together parts of a January 6, 2021 speech, including one section where he told supporters to march on the Capitol and another where he said 'fight like hell'. It omitted a section in which he called for peaceful protest. Trump's lawsuit alleges the BBC defamed him and violated a Florida law that bars deceptive and unfair trade practices. He is seeking $5 billion in damages for each of the lawsuit's two counts. The BBC has apologized to Trump, admitted an error of judgment and acknowledged that the edit gave the mistaken impression that he had made a direct call for violent action. But it has said there is no legal basis to sue. Watch.

BBC crisis erupts: Director-General Tim Davie & News CEO Deborah Turness resign amid systemic bias scandal over Trump speech edit on November 10, 2025! Leaked memo accuses Panorama of doctoring Trump's Jan 6 remarks, pro-Hamas Gaza coverage, trans influence. UK Culture Minister Lisa Nandy calls claims incredibly serious. Watch the broadcaster's meltdown!

After an uproar for labeling the US radio network NPR as ‘state-affiliated’ media and ‘government funded', Elon Musk's Twitter backtrakced and applied the same label to the British Broadcasting Corporation or BBC. BBC immediately registered a protest against the labelling by Twitter. The labelling which insinuates that the state exercises influence over the editorial policies of a network were challenged by the BBC in a statement, ‘The BBC is, and always has been, independent. We are funded by the British public through the licence fee’, said BBC.

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The job cuts come just a week after BBC boss Tony Hall said he would step down, and as the corporation grapples with a equal-pay demandsOther jobs will be lost at national radio station 5 Live, and there will be a review of the number of presenters working for the broadcaster

'It (no censorship) allows us to pitch more varied stories to platforms''So if tomorrow, censorship comes in and platforms say we can’t do certain things, I’ll have to change my pitches accordingly'

At Netflix, Myleeta Aga will head content operations for south east Asia and AustraliaAt BBC Worldwide, she was senior vice-president and general manager for south east Asia and India

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