BBC Whistle-blower comes forward and we have some SERIOUS questions they will need to answer

When we launched our documentary “The BBC- A Licence to Lie” we were hopeful that whistle blowers would come forward. It is fair to say that we now have some absolutely EXPLOSIVE allegations about the BBC and the way that they handled and distributed images of Child Pornography in a highly questionable incident.

 

 

 

Now this relates to an incident back in 2016/2017 where the BBC sent Facebook images of Child Pornography to Facebook and then Facebook reported the BBC to the Police for sending them these images:

“It is against the law for anyone to distribute images of child exploitation. When the BBC sent us such images we followed our industry’s standard practice and reported them to CEOP [Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, part of the National Crime Agency][.

“We also reported the child exploitation images that had been shared on our own platform. This matter is now in the hands of the authorities.”

The BBC’s director of editorial policy, David Jordan, said: “The fact that Facebook sent images that had been sent to them, that appear on their site, for their response about how Facebook deals with inappropriate images…the fact that they sent those on to the police seemed to me to be extraordinary.

“One can only assume that the Facebook executives were unwilling or certainly reluctant to engage in an interview or a debate about why these images are available on the Facebook site.”

A BBC spokesperson said: “In 2016 a BBC investigation found that paedophiles were using secret groups on Facebook to post and swap sexually suggestive images of children which led to one man receiving a four-year prison sentence.

“One year later in this follow-up investigation we found similar images still on the site, which we reported using Facebook’s own moderation procedures. Some of the images were then removed, but the majority remained on the site.

“When the BBC approached Facebook with its findings, Facebook agreed to an interview on the condition the BBC provided examples of the remaining material which had been deemed acceptable by Facebook’s own moderation procedure. The BBC provided that evidence to Facebook.”

Now what our whistle-blower is alleging is why did the BBC have these images on their servers when doing so is completely illegal? The BBC is not the Police yet they were acting like it.

However it does take an even more sinister turn when our whistle-blower says he thinks that a far more dark motive for having these images existed with anyone who wanted it having access to them. 

We will get everything ready and released over the coming weeks and we will be taking this evidence to both the BBC and the National Crime Agency with some very serious questions. I was genuinely quite taken aback at all this but then I shouldn’t be when it comes to the BBC. 

I will be heading down to London at the end of the month to start filming and I am sure as you can appreciate there are considerable costs in putting all of this together. I know many of you are very generous to UNN on a regular basis but if everyone even chipped in a few pounds it would be a big help and I genuinely feel this documentary will be very important in exposing people to exactly what the BBC really is. Any questions let me know and I will do my best to get back to you.

Kind Regards,

David Clews