John Simpson, the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, posted a boast on X this morning about the BBC:
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
— John Simpson (@JohnSimpsonNews) November 11, 2025
Guido’s Verify service began examining the claims. No need, Simpson debunked himself…
Within hours he posted an apology:
“It’s apologising season. The audience for BBC output in the US is just over 40 million, not 77 million as I said. That’s the figure for the Americas as a whole. But the BBC is indeed the second most trusted news source in the US.”
The original tweet was seen over 300,000 times. Half-right is good enough for the BBC…
Simpson’s boast about the BBC’s viewership in the US may also be seen as unhelpful seeing as one key point Trump will have to prove is that the miselading Panorama programme was viewable in Florida. D’oh!
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