President Donald Trump filed suit Monday against the British Broadcasting Company, seeking more than $5 billion from the venerable news outlet over what he contends was deliberately misleading editing of a speech he gave on Jan. 6, 2021, as the Capitol riot was getting underway.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Miami, complains that the BBC “maliciously” strung together two comments Trump made more than 54 minutes apart in order to convey the impression that he’d urged his supporters to engage in violence as electoral votes were set to be tabulated by Congress.
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Does putting the intervening time appreciably change the message, the context, or the effect?
The Society of Profesional Journalists, in the US, has a code of ethics that states, “Seek truth and report it. Ethical journalism should be accurate and fair. Journalists should be honest and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.” (emphasis added)
I watched the J6 hearings. I’ve seen his rally speeches. The entire purpose of news media is to convey meaning without distorting the message, the context, or the effect.
I live in the Uk and I hate the BBC but they used two clips of trumps speech that incited violence to imply that he incited violence. I don’t see the problem.
The attacks were so violent that one officer committed suicide and many more were injured.
Tell it like it is: trump got people killed (including his own supporters) because he wanted to undermine democracy. Scum
TRUMP SHOULD BE ARRESTED
In unrelated news, US suspended $31B trade deal with UK.
No, seriously: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/15/us-pauses-tech-prosperity-deal-britain-donald-trump-keir-starmer
If only there was somewhere that the UK could make a trade deal with nearby.
The fat, old, lying orange felon tried the same shit on Canada, so Canada found a ton of new trading partners, some of which were impacted by TACO boy’s tariffs - they are doing fantastic.
UK is not Canada. I don’t know if you heard but they left EU because they were going to find a ton of new trading partners and US was supposed to be one of the big ones. They are in an incredibly weak position and US is trying to exploit it. I wouldn’t be surprised if they paid the bribe to Trump through a settlement to save this deal.
He’s just looking for a bribe in the form of a settlement, as usual.
Probably also wants to take down a publicly funded media outlet because he can’t get them to lie for him. NPR and PBS have had their funding obliterated, and BBC is popular in America even though its based in the UK.
How does that even work. BBC Panarama programme, which airs in the UK, made the claims, yet he is filling a lawsuit in Miami?
I guess he’s trying to sue BBC America?
I guess it’s time for me to sue America for £1 trillion in my local court for ruining my Internet scrolling experience
BBC America is a subsidiary of AMC Networks.
He is filing in Florida because he is resident there.
That just raises more questions.
How can person A sue company B, which is headquartered in country B and releases products in country B, in country A. Company B could have followed all the laws of Country B so it wouldn’t be illegal in that country.
Well this is going to be one of the battles in the case. The Panorama episode in question was never aired in the US, but the Trump team argue that VPN use means some Floridians may have accessed it. The BBC’s team will seek to argue that such use isn’t significant enough to cause reputational damage to Trump in Florida.
This is basically a shake-down. So far, American media has rolled over and written it off as the cost of doing business. He may think that would be the case here.
It would be amazing if they counter sue for 15 billion.
I mean, you can sue for whatever. Doesn’t mean that you’ll win or that the court won’t throw it out.
Or that you’ll ever get paid if you do win.
the most vexatious litigious karen in the world.
Greedy snowflake Karen. He’s like the kid that tattles on you for every little thing.
hes the final evolution of the karen.
Christ, what an asshole
This is great. Maybe it’ll set the precedent that news stations have to report fair accurate news. Then we can go after Fox
Fake news only applies to sources Dear Leader doesn’t like.
That won’t happen of course.
This guy is such a dildo.
Hey now. Dildos can do some good.
Ahhh, I love the American cultural phenomenon of suing anyone and everyone for absurd amounts of money
Yes, you showed my interview by cutting up what I said, but still staying true to journalistic integrity!? Give me five billion dollars!
I don’t think people can even comprehend how much money that is, for… telling the truth?
Ft reports 10bn. Must pay now else it will be 20bn tomorrow.
https://www.ft.com/content/e2f19150-5f64-4ba8-9d62-4a7c3ee49e73
Fuck, he’s stupid.
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