Politics · 54 minutes ago
BBC Pauses Civil Servant Secondments to BBC Verify
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The BBC has paused a scheme that sends government statisticians to its fact-checking service, BBC Verify, and will review their roles. The move follows a Telegraph report claiming the civil servants had been doing editorial work, raising questions about impartiality. The BBC insists the statisticians never made editorial decisions. Current secondees will not work on published content during the review, and recruitment is on hold.
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