On the evening of June 20th the BBC News website published a report credited to freelancer Rachel Muller-Heyndyk and titled “Iran will consider diplomacy when Israeli aggression stops – foreign minister,” which included the following portrayal of “Israel’s foreign minister”:
That report was updated several times times overnight, with the first three versions referring to “Israel’s foreign minister, Eyal Zamir” or “Israeli foreign minster Eyal Zamir.” Three subsequent versions of the report – with BBC journalist Sofia Ferreira Santos added to the credits – told BBC audiences that Eyal Zamir is the “counterpart” of the Iranian foreign minister:
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir is of course not “Israel’s foreign minister”: that post is currently held by Gideon Sa’ar. But apparently neither Muller-Heyndyk nor Ferreira Santos (or any of the BBC News website editors) bothered to take a look at the video address they reported because had they done so, they would have seen that the speaker was wearing army uniform.
CAMERA UK submitted a complaint to the BBC on that topic and while we have yet to receive a reply, around an hour and a half later, the misinformation which had been online for over nine hours was corrected…