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Trump alleges a defamatory edit of his January 6 speech in BBC’s Panorama, prompting internal BBC reviews, resignations, and a $10 billion lawsuit filed in Florida.
- US President Donald Trump has filed a $10BN lawsuit in Florida against the BBC, alleging `a false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump` linked to the Panorama programme.
- Earlier this year, a leaked memo by Michael Prescott highlighted concerns that the Panorama programme spliced a January 6 clip, showing Mr Trump saying `We’re going to walk down to the Capitol & I’ll be there with you`.
- The BBC apologised for the edit, prompting the resignations of Tim Davie, Director General, and Deborah Turness, BBC news boss, while Peter Johnston, BBC editorial standards boss, said `we will ensure the current guidelines are reinforced`.
- The BBC says it will defend the lawsuit but is not commenting further, while reviews recommended the Editorial, Guidelines and Standards Committee be more strategic and Samir Shah, BBC chairman, said he has made changes to ensure swift action on editorial issues.
- A governance review found the editorial committee chair role creates conflicts that block escalation, while Peter Johnston said `more actions had been taken` than Prescott acknowledged.
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