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Re:Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts by phaemon on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @05:35AM (#17028519)
They are only required to provide "balanced" coverage during an election, nothing more. The BBC is absolutely biased, as was made clear during the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum. The distortions and outright lies they continually produced were astonishing to me.

You can see plenty examples of this at Wings Over Scotland (which I know is biased, but is also scrupulously accurate)

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Re:Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts by Chriky on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:39AM (#17028798)
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-co...

There's no mention here of the regulation only applying during elections - where are you getting that from?

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Can you link me to some of the lies from the BBC during the indyref?

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Re:Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts by phaemon on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @08:22AM (#17029241)
Ah, I was thinking of the election rules where they are required to give a representative amount of time to each party, not the impartiality rules which, frankly, are vague to the point of uselessness.

The classic example of BBC lies would be Nick Robinson of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_XhTALHQzI

If you want a more recent example of BBC bias, try: https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-bad-losers/

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