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The face of the BBC’s recently launched disinformation unit said that the backlash against the Big Brother-esque bureau, which she dismissed as “trolling”, demonstrates the need for the publicly-funded broadcaster to investigate citizens of the UK.

The BBC Woman’s Hour programme asked the public whether they believe “age-appropriate pornography” should be made for children.

The BBC is facing a “crisis” as one million households in the UK have stopped paying the television tax over the past two years.

Streaming services such as Netflix will be policed by Britain’s broadcasting regulator in a bid to level the playing field for the BBC.

LONDON (AP) — Tony Hall, who was director of BBC news and current affairs at the time of the public broadcaster’s explosive 1995 interview with Princess Diana, resigned Saturday as board chairman of Britain’s National Gallery.

Nigel Farage has criticised the “out-of-touch” BBC, calling for a televised debate on the future of the funding of the broadcaster, which is maintained with a mandatory charge on all those watching live television.

Some three-quarters of a million pensioners who would have previously been afforded a free television licence have refused to pay after the rules were changed, creating a substantial resistance to the television tax that funds the BBC, according to reports.

The BBC-funding licence fee has seen its sharpest decline in recent history, losing some 256,000 in just one year, as the broadcaster faces a crisis in confidence over its liberal-metropolitan bias.

Bowing to pressure from the Black Lives Matter movement,the BBC announced o that it will remove the lyrics of Rule, Britannia on the Proms.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that the BBC’s “days are numbered” after the British broadcaster introduced charges for over-75s and following its biased coverage of recent events such as the Black Lives Matter movement.

The BBC will go ahead with its plans to scrap the free licence fee exemption for the majority of over-75s, despite pledging last month to spend £100 million on “diverse” content to appease the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement.

Tens of thousands of people have joined a campaign the defund the UK’s public-funded broadcaster as the backlash grows against the media outlet’s supposedly ‘impartial’ reporting.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said that it is considering scrapping its court-enforced licence fee funding mechanism, in favour of attaching a tax on citizens’ broadband connections.

Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has said that the BBC must abandon its “narrow urban outlook” and be sure to provide “genuine diversity of thought and experience” if it wants to survive.

Former Conservative MP Michael Portillo has said that the BBC will not survive in its current TV tax-funded model, comparing it to a “polar bear on a receding piece of ice”.

Nearly 200,000 Britons have cancelled their television licence in one year, a report has revealed, while several Tories have called on Downing Street to stop its “vendetta” against the BBC by proposing that the broadcaster earn its own money.

A BBC editor has complained that Number 10’s boycott of Radio 4’s Today programme is a “Trumpian” plot to “delegitimise” the broadcaster.

A top Labour Party MP has blamed the party’s historic election defeat under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn on bias against the party from the BBC.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has questioned whether taxing everyone who has a television to fund the BBC is justifiable, saying that a new Conservative government would look into scrapping the TV licence fee.

Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has warned that the mandatory TV tax is at risk of being undermined because young people are “tuning out” of the BBC.

More than 1,000 staff at the BBC have been handed pay raises of between 10 and more than 20 per cent, while the corporation continues to claim it cannot afford to provide free television licences for over-75s.