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BBC again falsely attributing alleged crime of a male to a woman.

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Cailleach1 · 10/06/2025 16:01

Not to comment on the case itself as it is current. However, surely the BBC are spreading disinformation with lies like this.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2lk87qkzg4o

A two-floor gothic style building with green growing up its walls and three large windows at the top and large wooden doors on the ground floor. Two black cars are parked in front of the building next to grass.

Lincoln woman Zoe Watts accused of trying to make gun on 3D printer

Prosecutors claim Zoe Watts attempted to make the weapon to "sneak past law enforcement".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2lk87qkzg4o

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teawamutu · 10/06/2025 17:06

I've complained on the basis of factual inaccuracy.

ArabellaScott · 10/06/2025 16:48

Redshoeblueshoe · 10/06/2025 16:13

IPSO are captured. That's why cocolokio

BBC aren't regulated by IPSO, they self regulate. Only if you jump through many hoops do you get to take it to IPSO, and most people will die give up long before they get that far.

pontefractals · 10/06/2025 16:29

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 10/06/2025 16:07

I'm sorry this is a link to Pink News, but they have state explicitly that Zoe Watts is a transwoman and the mainstream media are referring to Watts just as 'woman'. https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/22/zoe-watts-trans-prisoner-medication/ PN are very cross that Watts was held on a male prison wing, of course.

Blimey. It comes to something when Pink News - PINK NEWS - is less dishonest than the BBC.

Pleasantsort · 10/06/2025 16:29

Oh course it's Unison( rages to myself at the years I spent paying into that bloody women hating trade union).

moto748e · 10/06/2025 16:27

Disgraceful. How dare they? Why should readers trust anything the BBC says, when they treat the public with such contempt?

MelOfTheRoses · 10/06/2025 16:19

Wow - quite the repeat offender.

WomenShouldStillWinWomensSportsIsBack · 10/06/2025 16:14

It's not even worth complaining to the BBC is it? Last time I complained I got a mealy-mouthed passive aggressive response saying "our reporting is accurate because we say it's accurate so there."
(ETA obviously I've paraphrased)

Redshoeblueshoe · 10/06/2025 16:13

IPSO are captured. That's why cocolokio

WomenShouldStillWinWomensSportsIsBack · 10/06/2025 16:12

Thanks all, the original article was very misleading then. They obsessively put Tommy Robinson's real name in every news report about him, showing they can find the word space if they want to, but they don't report transwomen criminals the same way.

cocolokiko · 10/06/2025 16:11

How are they allowed to do this?!

ArabellaScott · 10/06/2025 16:10

The one that hit watermelons with feminists' faces taped to them with a baseball bat?

tripleginandtonic · 10/06/2025 16:10

Why can't they st least put trans woman in the headline even if they then use she in the article.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 10/06/2025 16:07

I'm sorry this is a link to Pink News, but they have state explicitly that Zoe Watts is a transwoman and the mainstream media are referring to Watts just as 'woman'. https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/22/zoe-watts-trans-prisoner-medication/ PN are very cross that Watts was held on a male prison wing, of course.

Ellie1015 · 10/06/2025 16:05

I assume that person is a woman. If not very misleading.

WomenShouldStillWinWomensSportsIsBack · 10/06/2025 16:03

Sorry how do you know it's not a woman? There's no picture and nothing in the text that suggests this. Is it in another article somewhere?

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