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Comment by chimprich

Are all errors "lies"?

The BBC admitted a mistake. The error was reported by an internal BBC investigation, not because Trump's team complained (it is highly unlikely they saw it originally, because it was an UK broadcast).

The BBC makes thousands of hours of video annually. You can't expect perfection, or to sue them for billions of $CURRENCY for every mistake.

The mistake in this case was to make their quite reasonable case (that Trump encouraged the violence of January 2021) very slightly more emphatically than was perhaps justified.

Trump of course showed his disapproval of the violence by pardoning all the rioters, including those convicted of injuring police with weapons.

parent chimprich 11 days ago

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