New Delhi: The resignation of BBC director general, Tim Davie, and chief executive of the news division, Deborah Turness, has sent shockwaves across the global news ecosystem.

The duo has stepped down following startling revelations—a video of US President Donald Trump was “doctored” by the BBC to furnish a belief that it was Trump who incited the January 6 riots at the US capitol.

These allegations made their way into the public domain by way of a whistleblower. A 19-page dossier, compiled by a member of the BBC ’s standards committee, found that the organisation had manipulated footage of Trump, interlacing two different segments. According to a report in The Daily Telegraph , a British newspaper, the documentary, which was aired on the BBC ’s Panorama , made Trump say thi

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