A information defender stands defender extracurricular BBC Broadcasting House aft Director General of BBC Tim Davie and Chief Executive of BBC News Deborah Turness resigned pursuing accusations of bias astatine the British broadcaster, including successful the mode it edited a code by U.S. President Donald Trump, successful London, Britain, November 11, 2025.
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President Donald Trump connected Monday nighttime filed a $5 cardinal defamation suit against the BBC successful national tribunal successful Florida.
The civilian ailment accuses the British nationalist broadcasting institution of producing a "false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump" successful a Panorama documentary aired 1 week earlier the 2024 election.
Trump's suit alleges the documentary was produced arsenic portion of "a brazen effort to interfere successful and power the Election's result to President Trump's detriment."
The suit is the latest successful a bid of defamation complaints that the notoriously litigious president has filed against media outlets.
Trump filed a $15 cardinal suit against The New York Times in September, accusing the paper of being a "mouthpiece" for the Democratic Party.
In July, Trump filed a suit seeking $10 cardinal successful damages from media baron Rupert Murdoch and the steadfast of The Wall Street Journal implicit that newspaper's study that Trump sent his then-friend Jeffrey Epstein a "bawdy" missive for Epstein's 50th birthday.
Trump denies sending oregon authoring that letter, which was among the documents that the notorious enactment offender Epstein's property has since turned implicit to a legislature committee.
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