A man jailed for immigration deception after a judge condemned his “deliberate, extended manipulation” of the system is now the BBC’s principal data scientist for Responsible AI, helping shape how the corporation uses AI and how news is represented through it. Hicham Yezza (picture here with Moazzam Begg, the former Guantánamo Bay detainee) was sentenced to nine months in prison in 2009 after falsely claiming he had permission to remain in Britain. He had overstayed his visa by more than five years. He later successfully appealed against deportation and is now a British citizen. Before joining the BBC, Yezza also described Hamas rocket attacks as “resistance”, accused Israel of ethnic cleansing and called it an apartheid regime built on stolen land. He founded the pro-Palestinian Ceasefire magazine and later joined BBC Monitoring in 2021, where The Telegraph says he produced reports concerning Gaza. His current BBC role involves guiding responsible AI policy and developing benchmarks for how AI assistants represent public-service news. There is an extraordinary contrast here. When the Asserson Report used AI alongside data scientists and other researchers to analyse millions of words of BBC Israel-Hamas coverage, the corporation responded: “We have serious questions about the methodology of this report, particularly its heavy reliance on AI to analyse impartiality.” Yet the BBC now entrusts a senior role in determining how AI should approach and represent news to someone who had publicly expressed such strongly anti-Israel views before joining it. The BBC says Yezza’s controversial statements and immigration case pre-date his employment, that he has not breached its social-media rules while working there, and that he stopped working for Ceasefire when he joined. So that's all OK then! An extraordinary background — and an extraordinary contrast in the BBC’s attitude towards AI scrutiny of news.

Total dickhead statement Willing civil unrest? Who does that? Go and experience PEV, stun grenades, tear gas, sharpened pangas, water cannons, looting and widespread destruction for yourself and you would NEVER will this upon your own nation as some sort of desirable climax. This ghoulish fetishization of civil war by perverted ghouls behind Old Rupe's social media is the mental illness of inexperienced wets brought up on Call Of Duty and Clicks The Real World they know not. Oh to see them face tribal clashes in the hinterlands of conflict nations. They'd pee their pants.

This is a coordinated effort by the far-right to weaponise their racism into political violence today. Reform and Restore are parroting the same lies of course this morning. These are countrywide, cost of living protests. Nothing to do with Islam or Islamism. Liars. 🤬

What does "legitimate" even mean here? The Electoral Commission found massive breaches of electoral laws. It was the biggest case of electoral fraud in at least a century. And that's *before* considering question of Russian interference.

An expert on Brexit lies enters the debate …. Looking forward to Johnson intervention soon …

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Well this is awkward: "The surname "Farage" originates from a distant Huguenot ancestor. Genealogical findings show his lineage traces back to Georgius Ferauge, born in 1681 in Fumay, France, near the modern-day Belgian border. This ancestor emigrated to Berkshire, England, in the early 1700s, and the surname gradually anglicized from Ferauge to Ferridge and finally Farage".

You can be furious about illegal migration. You can believe the small-boats crisis has been catastrophically mishandled. You can demand tougher borders. But what exactly is achieved by taking a knife to an inflatable dinghy in the middle of the Channel while a rescue worker is still standing on it? Hampshire Police say they are now conducting enquiries into footage relating to damage to the boat by Danny Tommo - or as his mum calls him, Daniel Thomas.

Breaking (Clip Banned)🇬🇧🔥🇷🇺: "The British would rise to greatness against Russia. We would have to lock a few people up, pro-Russian voices, that 'don't go to war for Burnham', we'd have to have conscription as well". Tonight on @GBNEWS a Europhile Climate Zealot demands that those refusing to go to war with Russia, or "Going to war for Burnham", are thrown in jail. GB News have taken this entire section OUT of their YouTube Channel, most likely out of embarrassment for allowing this psychopath onto the platform. I'm sure a few of you may have some helpful advice to war mongering @Jacob_Rees_Mogg and his similarly minded death occultist demonic friend. This clown would never take up arms himself, I doubt he'd last 10 seconds in an Army barracks or any military force.