LONDON – The director-general of the BBC, Tim Davie, and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness resigned on Sunday following accusations of bias, including the controversial editing of a speech by former US President Donald Trump. The resignations came after an internal report, leaked to the Daily Telegraph, cited shortcomings in the broadcaster’s coverage of the […]
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Global study finds AI assistants distort nearly half of news content
LONDON: A major international study by 22 leading public service media organizations has revealed that popular AI assistants fail to deliver accurate news nearly 45% of the time, regardless of language or region. The research assessed platforms including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Perplexity AI, examining their performance across key journalism standards such as […]
BBC locates footage of crashed Indian jets, including Rafale
BBC Verify has said that it has authenticated three videos, which purportedly show the wreckage of a French-manufactured Rafale fighter jet, the very same that are used by the Indian Air Force. “In one clip – geolocated by BBC Verify to a field near the city of Bathinda in India’s Punjab state – troops can […]
Young Gaza narrator defends documentary after BBC censorship
Abdullah al-Yazouri, the young narrator of the BBC documentary Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, has expressed his deep disappointment after the network removed the film following backlash from pro-Israel groups. The 14-year-old, who spent nine months working on the documentary, stated, “It was very sad to me” to see his hard work dismissed. […]
Fawad asks BBC’s ‘Hard Talk’ host to not undermine Pakistan’s elected govt
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan is the most popular leader in Pakistan as the people, who voted him to power, are still his ardent fans. Speaking in a BBC’s ‘Hard Talk’ programme, he said that even in the next general elections, Imran Khan […]
A remarkable consensus
Not content with their humdrum job of making laws for the largest province of the country by population and keeping a check on governance standards, the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding that showbiz celebrities be stopped from appearing in Ramazan shows on TV. The resolution moved by Maulana Muawia […]
Why China cannot dominate the AI scene (for now)
At a recent CEO forum hosted by a university in Ipoh, a gentleman representing Universal Music regionally spoke with wide-eyed wonder about the rapid strides China is making in cutting-edge technology. To illustrate his point, he used the example of beggary in Beijing that has apparently gone hi-tech. Today, street beggars in China use smart […]
The More, the Marry-er? ‘Second wife’ website brings benefits to women too
The history of polygamy dates back to a long time ago, having been practiced for many centuries by tumultuous cultural landscapes. Subjectivist theories of values evaluate ‘polygamy’ and ‘monogamy’ in a continuous face off against each other, always giving credibility to one over the other, often associating the wrath of polygamous jargon as condescending threats […]