"sent a personal letter to the White House making clear to President Trump that he and the corporation are sorry for the edit of the president's speech on 6 January 2021."
"We strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim,"
"unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech, rather than excerpts from different points in the speech, and that this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action."
The BBC apologized to US President Donald Trump for an edit of his January 6, 2021 speech that created a misleading impression of incitement. The program spliced together two excerpts more than 50 minutes apart and removed a section where Trump urged supporters to demonstrate peacefully. Trump threatened a $1 billion defamation lawsuit over the edit. The controversy led to the resignations of BBC Director General Tim Davie and News Chief Executive Deborah Turness. BBC chair Samir Shah sent a personal letter to the White House and a retraction accepted that the edit unintentionally created a mistaken impression of a call for violence. The BBC denied there was a basis for a defamation claim.
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