#bbcverify

A tragic missile attack in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, highlights the ongoing dangers civilians face in the Russian invasion. Four lives were lost when a hotel was struck, illustrating the harsh realities of war. Through verified footage, **Nick Eardley** of BBC Verify sheds light on the devastating impacts of military actions on stability and safety. For deeper insights into this escalating conflict, explore the full article. [Source](bbc.com/news/videos/c8d4eyvd7j) #Ukraine #BBCVerify #WarReport

2025-01-31

#Russia suffering '#EnvironmentalCatastrophe' after #OilSpill in #KerchStrait

Joshua Cheetham, Olga Robinson & Matt Murphy, January 23, 2025

"Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch Strait that separates Russia from annexed #Crimea, a month after two oil tankers were badly damaged in the #BlackSea.

"Oil has leaked into the strait from two ships which ran into trouble during bad weather on 15 December. Volgoneft-239 ran aground following the storm, while Volgoneft-212 sank.

​​"Up to 5,000 tonnes of oil has now leaked, and media reports and official statements analysed by BBC Verify suggest the spill has spread across the Black Sea and the #SeaOfAzov.

"A senior Russian scientist called the spill the country's worst '#EnvironmentalCatastrophe' of the 21st Century.

"'This is the first time fuel oil has been spilled in such quantities,' Viktor Danilov-Danilyan - the head of science at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) - said in a 17 January interview with a Russian newspaper.

"Russian scientists said in December that this spill could be more than twice the size of a similar disaster in the strait in 2007, which saw up to 1,600 tonnes of #HeavyOil leak into the sea. #Ukraine's ministry of #ecology has estimated that the clear up from the latest spill could cost the Russian state up to $14bn (£11.4bn).

"#PaulJohnston, a scientist at #GreenpeaceResearchLaboratories, said 'there's always an element of uncertainty around oil spills', but a lack of timely information has heightened this uncertainty further.

"'I'm not entirely optimistic we'll ever know the full extent of the problem,' he added.

"Satellite images reviewed by #BBCVerify on 10 January - the most recent available high-resolution photos - showed a #MassiveOilSlick running through the strait, measuring at least 25km (15 miles) long. A second, smaller slick measuring around 5.7km (3.5 miles) long is also visible."

Read more:
bbc.com/news/articles/c23ngk5v
#WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalDestruction #OilSpill

Greg Walker :manjaro:gregsie@fosstodon.org
2024-12-29

@therightarticle
The BBC now have a verify editor. Maybe this should be escalated to them to. Unless they are one and the same person.

#RaffiBerg
#BBCVerify
#BBCCorruption
#BBCLies

2024-11-23
2024-08-11

Awake early enough to hear #radio4 doing its cranky Sunday morning god slot. Firstly #bellsonsunday, a minute of sequenced cling-clang for the lord. Then #beyondbelief in which ‘theologists’ burble about the theoretical suffering of their magic sky captain. This will later be followed by the groaning out of a few servile reverb-drenched chants and singalongs. Deliberately deceitful broadcasting, one might even call it evil. #bbcverify and ‘the lord’ as ever, nowhere to be seen.

2024-06-10

If anyone voting in the UK elections is tempted to watch the "official" debates, don't, just follow the like instead

The debates are empty arguments and thanks to toxic lies are as polluted as British rivers. It's a circus, but anyone who listens to Farage doing his crap comes out several IQ points lower

It should have a health warning

bbc.com/news/articles/c255py21

BBC verify
2024-06-05

#ITVDebat #Sunak begins to rival #Johnson as a liar & charlatan. Sunak's £2k tax lie ridiculed by everyone from #BBCVerify to the man on the bus, it was set up by Tory 'advisors' based on erroneous data. These liars MUST be defeated. #rejoinEU #ToryCorruption #TorySewageParty

2024-04-06

I can't understand why BBC Verify is it's own program on BBC News. Why don't they verify and question every story and statement and call out the lies and bias as it happens? I know the BBC says this happens, but I watch our politicians on different news outlets repeating things that are not factual, or are based on limited and manipulated datasets all the time.
#BBCNews #BBCVerify #News #FactChecking

John Leonardjohnleonard
2024-03-05

BBC News marks content 'verified' to counter disinformation

Metadata and trail of provenance embedded into images and video

computing.co.uk/news/4181442/b

2024-03-01

BBC Verify go to impressive lengths to unravel what actually happened with all the killings yesterday around the food aid trucks.

#BBCVerify #BBC #Gaza #Israel #Palestine
bbc.com/news/world-middle-east

Kriszta Satorifulelo@journa.host
2024-03-01

V #BBCVerify
#BBCNews - What video and eyewitness accounts tell us about Gazans killed at aid drop
bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-ea

2024-02-08

Marianna Spring's short series 'Why Do You Hate Me?' about her experience of trolling and her investigation of the trolls and conspiracy-theorists she has encountered, is on BBC Sounds now.

bbc.in/3OAieaq

#SocialMedia #trolling #misinformation #disinformation #paranoia #ConspiracyTheory #MassShooting #LasVegas #USA #BBCVerify

Illustration for podcast Why do you hate me? Stylised image of many angry face emojis falling around the head and shoulders of presenter Marianna Spring, forming a pile in front of her.
2024-02-08

"I believed, when I was talking on social media, I was being tracked by America."

In the second episode of Why Do You Hate Me, Marianna Spring speaks to a survivor of a mass shooting in Las Vegas who fell into a world of conspiracy theories.

Why Do You Hate Me, a new podcast on BBC Sounds bbc.in/3UrD9jQ

#SocialMedia #trolling #misinformation #disinformation #paranoia #ConspiracyTheory #MassShooting #LasVegas #USA #BBCVerify

Kriszta Satorifulelo@journa.host
2023-12-10

#BBCNews - #Israel - #Gaza war: Video shows Gaza detainees allegedly 'surrendering guns' - what we know
bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-ea
V #BBCVerify

J.Sʜᴀʀᴘ🌍🇺🇦Fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ&DᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏJSharp1436@mstdn.social
2023-10-14

🔴 #BBCVerify has confirmed women and children were killed when a strike hit their vehicles as they headed away from northern #Gaza

Analysis of images from the scene show some of those who died were aged between two and five

#Israel has warned 1.1m Palestinians living in north Gaza to evacuate south. Thousands have been fleeing by vehicle or by foot

#UN chief António Guterres said the call for a mass evacuation was extremely hazardous and he urged humanitarian access ⏩

bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-midd

Somerset Bob 🇬🇧SomersetBob@mastodonapp.uk
2023-06-12

BBC News’s Newspaper Review page this morning saying Novak Djokovic is *26* years old! Come on #bbcnews, get #bbcverify on the case immediately! 😄

Extract from BBC News Newspaper Review page, 12 June 2023: “The Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic is pictured spread-eagled on the red clay of Roland Garros, on many of the sports pages, after he won the French Open yesterday. The Guardian says the 26-year-old achieved what once seemed impossible when he eclipsed his great rivals with a 23rd Grand Slam.”

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