A leaked internal memo that exposed “a deep and pervasive bias ” within the BBC, including two years of false and misleading coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, was published in full by The Telegraph on Thursday.

The report, written by Michael Prescott, a journalist and former adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Standards Committee, had “regular and detailed access to evidence of the BBC’s journalistic failures and groupthink,” Danny Cohen, former director of BBC Television, wrote of the report prior to its publication on Nov. 4.

Cohen described the 19-page dossier as a “devastating document,” providing “an insider’s account of serious and widespread failings of impartiality, systemic bias and activist journalism spanning years of BBC news coverage.”

Prescott’s “memo to the BBC’s Board

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