THE BBC has been called out for “slipshod” reporting after it quietly edited key documents relating to a headline investigation into toxic abuse aimed at MPs, correcting factual inaccuracies and deleting multiple pages of important background information altogether.
After glaring errors were pointed out by the Sunday National, the BBC made multiple edits to documents which it published alongside a report claiming to reveal the “scale of abuse of politicians on Twitter”.
The BBC also deleted six full pages from a document detailing key information about its headline findings, which had come from an AI programme scanning “all tweets mentioning MPs from March to mid-April” and categorising them as “toxic” or not.
