President Donald Trump promised to sue the BBC for its deceptive edits to one of his speeches. But that was not enough for Big Tech companies to axe the outlet from their AI training data sets. The BBC edited video suggesting that the President supported violence during the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots. But instead of this deception disqualifying the outlet from being used as a source in AI responses, Meta AI and xAI's Grok actually praised the BBC and doubled down on using it.  Meta AI offered a particularly egregious response, noting that since the chatbot is “built to surface the most reliable reporting and note any corrections, I’ll keep using BBC material when it’s relevant.” Grok also refused to cease using the BBC, praising the biased publication as “one of the most comprehensive and fact-checked broadcasters globally.” OpenAI’s ChatGPT also suggested that it would continue using the BBC. MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider denounced these Big Tech platforms for these outrageous statements. “Even when elitist media get caught dead to rights spreading fake narratives for partisan purposes, Big Tech will still use them and openly call them more reliable than the right-of-center sources they suppress,” Schneider said. “And if companies like Meta are so committed to keep pouring garbage from the BBC into their chatbots, they’re going to keep shoveling garbage out to their users.” A leaked BBC memo exposed the broadcaster for deceptively editing two clips of President Trump speaking on Jan. 6. The BBC combined two far-apart parts of Trump’s speech and removed an exhortation to peacefully protest. The final wildly misleading product combined “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you,” with words that came nearly an hour later, “and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country anymore.” The clip was also paired to dramatic unsettling music.  According to the memo, the clip aired the week before the 2024 U.S. election. The memo also blasted extreme bias at the BBC in favor of Hamas and transgenderism.  In response, BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of News, Deborah Turness, resigned on Nov. 9. Since then, President Trump has said that he will sue the BBC for billions of dollars.  Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini both acknowledged the incident, but downplayed it. Each also claimed that they (as chatbots) could not independently choose to stop using a source. Additionally, neither explicitly acknowledged that they trained on the BBC.  Notably, Claude took issue with the idea that the BBC was “authoring misinformation” and tried to downplay the scandal. Trump administration AI Czar David Sacks warned that Claude’s parent company, Anthropic, was likely to create products with a strong woke bias.  Sacks criticized Anthropic for hiring “the Biden AI team” in response to comments from leftist tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, who is a partner at a firm that has invested in Anthropic. Hoffman had claimed that Anthropic was “one of the good guys” among AI companies in a tweet thread that appeared to target Musk’s Grok and praised OpenAI.  In its response to the BBC scandal, Claude did admit that Anthropic and not the AI chatbot itself controls training. Claude wrote, “Regarding your question about training data: I don’t have control over or insight into what sources Anthropic uses for my training. Those decisions are made by Anthropic based on their assessment of data quality, reliability, and various other factors.”  Microsoft Copilot denied all knowledge of the resignations and did not substantially respond to the question.  Methodology: MRC researchers asked ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Grok and Meta AI the following question on Nov. 14: BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness resigned after a leaked BBC memo indicated that it edited two parts of Trump's speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021. Will you stop training on BBC content since the British broadcaster has admitted to authoring misinformation? Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.