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The BBC is not politically neutral. It's the legal propaganda arm of the British State.

To take a stance much more suited to this forum. It's a massive travesty that without some work Americans are now redirected to BBC.com, which curates news to be American-facing, and thus IMHO bows to advertiser pressure. We can't see BBC.co.UK, so we can't know what the other side of the news even looks like.

All news services do this. And it already fragments and destroys and hope of really talking about the news in a healthy manner IMHO.

Not only americans. I'm in Romania and also got redirected to bbc.com.

Guessing it's everyone that's not in the UK.

But they do have an American style “here’s our cookie/tracking policy, suck it up” pop-up :)

Cool it with the histrionics.

It's not histrionics. It's the State-funded broadcaster whose Director-General is a political appointee.

It might not be obvious to those within the UK or maybe further afield if reading articles on relatively neutral topics like science or climate, but the BBC is a bulwark of UK Government political influence and Oxbridge sensibilities.

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