We are pleased to announce the launch of Citizen BBC Verify, a citizen-led verification initiative, created by Citizen Intervention Global to hold one of the world’s most influential broadcasters to the same standards of truth and accountability it claims to uphold.

NB: Citizen BBC Verify is in no way affiliated with the BBC. It is a watchdog initiated by Citizen Intervention Global to scrutinise the BBC and BBC Verify.

For decades, millions of citizens have assumed that the BBC exists to protect the public interest, deliver impartial news and uphold rigorous standards of accuracy. In recent years as the proliferation of news and “fake news” through unregulated broadcasters on digital mediums such as Youtube and blogs expanded, the BBC has even launched its own fact-checking arm, BBC Verify, with the stated mission of distinguishing fact from misinformation and countering disinformation. 

But a simple and powerful question arises: Who verifies the verifier?

Why Citizen BBC Verify Exists

If the BBC claims to be the authority to verify everyone else, while claiming to share the truth to audiences at home and around the world, then it would be judicious that the BBC itself must be accountable to the same tests of transparency, evidence and verification that it holds others to. That is where Citizen BBC Verify comes in. 

Citizen BBC Verify is not affiliated with the BBC. It is an independent watchdog project, lead by citizens and established to:

• Scrutinise the BBC and BBC Verify on the same standards they apply to others. That means examining what the BBC actually say, how they operate, and how they behave when faced with concrete evidence of error or omission. 
• Evaluate the BBC’s claimed standards of truth, impartiality and accuracy against real editorial output and behaviour. This isn’t just about isolated mistakes, it’s about whether the BBC lives up to the principles it promotes. 
• Expose patterns of selective verification, editorial bias, corruption, propaganda, falsehoods, and institutional double-standards. For example, when a widely broadcast documentary contains multiple provable falsehoods, does the BBC’s own verification machinery do its job, or is it applied selectively, if at all? 

What the Initiative Covers

On bbcverify.org, you will find careful analysis and documentation that explores:

1. What the BBC says it exists for, its stated charter, mission and editorial guidelines. 
2. How the BBC’s editorial standards are expressed in official documents. 
3. How the BBC actually executes its work in practice, not just in slogans or promotional language, but how decisions are made in real programmes, news, documentaries, and fact-checking. 
4. Case studies showing where BBC content falls short of its own rules, including how evidence is handled, how subjects are represented, and whether corrections and accountability follow established standards. 

This approach reveals what Citizen BBC Verify calls the BBC’s real charter, as lived, not stated,  highlighting patterns of behaviour that diverge sharply from the public narrative about impartiality and trust. 

The first published investigations on the Citizen BBC Verify site already demonstrate the project’s method in action. 

1 – The BBC’s Real Charter (As Lived, Not Stated By Them)

2 – Applying BBC Verify’s Standards to A Very British Cult

The first investigation examines the BBC’s stated public-service obligations and editorial commitments, comparing official language with observable institutional behaviour, asking whether the organisation’s proclaimed charter is actually being lived rather than merely declared. 

The second applies BBC Verify’s own published verification standards to a high-profile documentary case study (‘A Very British Cult’), analysing whether those rules were consistently followed, whether evidence was properly weighed, and whether allegations were presented with the balance and caution the BBC itself demands of others. 

Together, these early articles and investigations set the tone for the initiative, forensic, document-driven, and focused on holding the BBC to its own publicly stated rules rather than imposing external or partisan standards.

“Evil happens when good people standby and do nothing!” Edmund Burke (philosopher and politician) 

A Call to Citizens Everywhere

We cannot leave verification and the perception of truth solely in the hands of institutions that claim to be the most credible and to have a unique authority in an industry that is predominantly distrusted by the public. When individuals and citizens have been misrepresented, when powerful broadcasters operate with minimal accountability, and when public trust is at stake, it is not just acceptable, it is necessary for ordinary people to step in, scrutinise, ask questions and demand answers!

That is why Citizen BBC Verify invites YOU to:

• Visit bbcverify.org and explore the analyses and case studies. 
• Engage with the project by submitting your own experiences, examples and questions for investigation and verification. 
• Register with Citizen Intervention Global to receive updates, participate in discussions and contribute to ongoing verification work. 

Every citizen has a stake in the integrity of public discourse, especially when it is shaped and reported by powerful media institutions. Citizen BBC Verify is an invitation to participate in a genuinely democratic conversation about truth, verification and accountability, because if verification matters, it’s critical it applies equally to everyone, including Citizen BBC Verify itself. 

NB: Citizen BBC Verify is in no way affiliated with the BBC. It is a watchdog initiated by Citizen Intervention Global to scrutinise the BBC and BBC Verify.

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