BBC Verify Launches Live Feed to Prove Its Staff Are Doing Work – Guido Fawkes

BBC Verify Launches Live Feed to Prove Its Staff Are Doing Work

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Guido’s coverage of BBC Verify and the launch of his very own Verify Unit have clearly caused shockwaves over in Broadcasting House – it has started a live feed. The Verify unit is now trying to prove to licence fee payers that its staff are doing work…

At 09:49 the Verify “Live editor” (who makes no mention of such on her public profiles) announced that the team had “just finished our morning meeting.” Early start…

The editor added that on the agenda was fact-checking Trump and “geolocating and chronolocating videos to track the scale of the Los Angeles protests.” What that means is checking where and when a video the team saw on X may have happened…

To that end the BBC has “verified footage of protesters smashing windows at the LAPD headquarters – one of them can be seen using a skateboard. This is most likely to have been filmed on Sunday evening as it’s nighttime footage which first appeared online on Monday morning.” Fascinating…

The live feed, in which each different Verify hack has a go, features fascinating behind-the-scenes details. In the section titled “How does BBC Verify authenticate videos and photos?” it is explained to readers that if a “clip has not previously appeared in search results that it a good indication that it is new.” Total Verify staff: 61…

In a short piece about Trump, apparently top of the agenda for Verify today, the BBC manages to misspell Colombia as “Columbia.” Total Verify staff costs: £3.4 million… 

As this story goes to pixel BBC Verify’s new live feed has 3,000 live viewers, while the BBC’s video updates on Greta Thunberg being given sandwiches by the IDF has 20,000. Uphill battle…