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When the BBC did fake news

Dabashi, Hamid
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/bbc-fake-news-181122134554312.html

Publisher:  Al Jazeera
Date Written:  23/11/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

The BBC recently aired a series on disinformation and fake news which made it seem like a problem reserved for non-British/non-European locales. The author looks at the BBC's role in the 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected government.

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This deliberate exoticism and exorcism of the fake news as something that happens among the dark people and not among the British sounds a bit, how shall I put it politely, strange to an Iranian pair of ears old enough to know the US-UK military coup against Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953, and the function of official propaganda of their news media in that treacherous act. The holier than thou attitude of the US and UK official media, the BBC in this particular case, could use a bit of historical memory. It'll teach them some humility....

Long before "fake news" had a name, the BBC was a master of fake news, in fact fake news of the most dangerous, the most vicious consequences, casting nations, not just individuals, into direct calamities.

What I have in mind is of course the harfmul role of the BBC as the propaganda machine of British imperialism around the globe. As well as in enabling and facilitating the CIA/MI6 coup of 1953 in my homeland in particular, by doing precisely what it now goes around finding darker nations doing - indulging in fake news and propaganda....

The issue of the BBC role in Iranian and other countries' politics has become so prevalent that scholars have conducted thorough research on the veracity of the matter and published meticulously documented books on the subject.
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