The BBC’s director-general has stepped down from his role after the broadcaster was embroiled in a “fake news” storm when it was revealed that quotes from a Donald Trump speech were stitched together in a Panorama documentary.

Tim Davie resigned on Sunday over concerns raised in a report by former BBC editorial standards advisor Michael Prescott about how the US President’s words were stitched together despite being about separate topics and were spoken nearly an hour apart.

The Panorama documentary blunder is the latest headline-grabbing capturing scandal to hit the BBC with Mr Davie at the helm.

Here are some of the biggest controversies he has faced in his time at the top of the BBC.

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