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BBC’s Tim Davie and Deborah Turness quit after Panorama’s Trump edit controversy.

A leaked memo claimed the programme spliced Trump’s speech about the Capitol riot.

Their resignations follow ongoing scrutiny of bias in BBC News coverage.

Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, and Deborah Turness, the corporation’s head of news, have resigned amid criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by altering a speech by Donald Trump.

According to BBC , the issue stemmed from a leaked internal memo published by The Telegraph on Monday which alleged the programme joined together two sections of the US president's remarks so he seemed to explicitly encourage the January 2021 riot at Capitol Hill .

Davie, who had been in post for five years, had been under

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