In November 2020, Donald Trump lost the presidential election to Joe Biden. After discussions about possible—but later unconfirmed—election fraud, Trump delivered a speech to supporters on January 6, 2021. The BBC recently compiled and released a clip from out-of-context excerpts of this lengthy speech, creating the demonstrably false impression that Trump had called for violence.
The president's lawyers estimate the political damage at around one billion dollars. Considering that the world order is currently facing a monumental turning point, and that Trump potentially plays a key role in it, this figure does not seem entirely unrealistic.
However, it is far too little known that the BBC has caused political damage on a much larger scale in the past.
In the lead-up to the Iranian Revolution, which culminated in the Islamists' takeover in February 1979, the BBC provided a broadcasting platform for the notorious anti-Semite and radical Islamist Ayatollah Khomeini. In the rivalry for the opportunity to reach Iranians via radio in Persian, the broadcaster practically granted the shrewd agitator a monopoly. https://www.nation.com.pk/11-Feb-2019/iranian-revolution-at-40-britains-secret-support-for-khomeini-revealed?version=amp
With this involvement, the BBC became the co-founder of an Islamist dictatorship in the hypocritical guise of an 'Islamic Republic'. https://www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com/en/blog/fraud-manipulated-clash-civilizations-short-version
This regime continues to oppress the people to this day and keeps Iran in perpetual conflict with the US and Israel. This scandalous betrayal of free civilization should now have political, not legal, repercussions.
This also applies to the controversy surrounding Trump's manipulated speech text. A financially ruined BBC would fall into a victim role that could easily be exploited for propaganda purposes. This would allow the enemies of freedom to keep the far more important issue of Khomeini's enthronement out of focus.