In July 2022, the BBC made the decision to merge both BBC News (for UK audiences) and BBC World News (for international audiences) as one news network, under the name BBC News. The linear service is aimed at the overseas market, in a similar manner to RT, Al Jazeera, and France 24. It is distinct from the BBC Studios operations. The channel is not broadcast in the UK, though BBC World News reports and programming are also used by the BBC News channel. Unlike the BBC's domestic channels, it is owned and operated by BBC Global News Ltd, part of the BBC's commercial group of companies, and is funded by subscription and advertising revenues, not by the United Kingdom television licence. It broadcasts news bulletins, documentaries, lifestyle programmes and interview shows. Launched on 11 March 1991 as BBC World Service Television outside Europe, its name was changed to BBC World on 16 January 1995 and to BBC World News on 21 April 2008. According to its corporate PR, the combined seven channels of the Global News operations have the largest audience market share among all of its rivals, with an estimated 99 million viewers weekly in 2016/2017, part of the estimated 121 million weekly audience of all its operations. The Latin American and Indian subfeeds are downscaled to letterboxed 4:3 480i)ĭigital terrestrial television (Mauritius)īBC World News is an international English-language pay television network, operated under the BBC Global News Limited division of the BBC, which is a public corporation of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Lead Stories previously debunked a fake headline about Tom Hanks that claimed that at the time the debunk was written, the actor would be in and out of hospitals for the rest of his life.(downscaled to 16:9 576i/ 480i for the SDTV feeds. Staff at Lead Stories were able to change a BBC News Online headline posted about Britney Spears using the method demonstrated in the YouTube tutorial that is hyperlinked in this paragraph: ![]() ![]() It is also simple to change text in web browsers like Google Chrome. ![]() These discrepancies are noted in circled portions of the screenshot below: Such dimensions appear when an element is inspected in Google Chrome's DevTools. Additionally, there is a pop-up on the upper right-hand corner of the headline image that indicates the dimensions of a web page element. Underneath the supposed headline, there are links to resources about the novel coronavirus, which do not relate to child pornography charges. The digital manipulation of the webpage is apparent given its inconsistencies. I can confirm this article isn't true - we did not post this story. In an email to Lead Stories on June 24, 2021, Philly Spurr, head of communications for BBC World Service, said: In fact, several results for news articles that mentioned both "Tom Hanks" and "arrested" were fact checks that debunked similar allegations. ![]() This is how the blog post appeared on June 24, 2021: BBC Headline "Tom Hanks Arrested on 135 Counts of Child Porn Possession" Quickly & Curiously RemovedĪfter using Google's search engine to search the entirety of BBC News Online's website, Lead Stories could not find results consistent with the headline for " Tom Hanks was arrested," " Tom Hanks pornography" or " Tom Hanks 135." Additionally, no other credible news outlets in the U.S. Who at the BBC gave the 'Ok' for this curious headline to be published? What would be the purpose and/or intention of publishing and then removing such an inflammatory article? Where is the BBC trying to lead its impressionable reader/viewership? When was this article first posted and when was it removed? Why would the BBC post such a defamatory headline in the first place? How has this flown under the radar of the other mainstream media news outlets, escaped the news cycle, and the social media hyenas? The post featured a picture of the supposed headline and opened: The claim appeared in a blog post titled "BBC Headline 'Tom Hanks Arrested on 135 Counts of Child Porn Possession' Quickly & Curiously Removed" that was published in June 2021. The image of the headline is clearly digitally manipulated. Did a BBC News Online headline report that Tom Hanks was arrested on 135 counts of child pornography possession? No, that's not true: Although an image attributed to BBC News Online displays that headline, along with a picture of Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson, no such headline was posted to the website, according to the BBC.
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