BBC Director General Tim Davie has stepped down, along with Deborah Turness, the network’s chief executive of news, following backlash over a documentary that allegedly misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump.
The BBC has come under criticism for editing a portion of Trump's January 6, 2021, speech delivered before protesters stormed the US Capitol in Washington. Critics argued that the edited version, featured in a BBC documentary, was misleading as it omitted a key section in which Trump urged his supporters to demonstrate "peacefully and patriotically."
