"President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the BBC on Monday night, seeking a whopping $10 billion in damages. The suit alleges that the British broadcaster had produced a "false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump" in its Panorama documentary, which aired in the week leading up to the 2024 presidential election. More specifically, it accused the BBC of editing his infamous January 6, 2021, speech to make it seem like he had explicitly urged his supporters to storm the US Capitol building prior to the insurrection."
""The Panorama Documentary falsely depicted President Trump telling supporters: 'We're going to walk down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore,' the lawsuit reads. 'President Trump never uttered this sequence of words.' The lawsuit alleges that Trump said the words, 'and we fight,' 55 minutes after saying, 'I'll be there with you,' even though the documentary allegedly made it sound like he said it in a single sequence."
"Trump said he's "suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth, literally." "They actually had me saying things that I never said coming out of my mouth," Trump said. "I guess they used AI or something. They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with January 6th that I didn't say." The remarks are baffling, since the 33-page suit makes no mention of artificial intelligence and accuses the BBC of editing his speech together to construct a call to action - not some AI deepfake version of the president, as Trump suggests."
President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC, alleging that its Panorama documentary produced a false and malicious depiction of him. The complaint asserts the documentary edited his January 6, 2021 speech to create an apparent sequence urging supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol, compressing remarks separated by 55 minutes. The suit contends the film constructed a call to action rather than presenting an accurate timeline. Trump publicly accused the BBC of putting words in his mouth and suggested artificial intelligence might have been used, though the legal filing alleges manual editing.
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