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11 June 2020

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OneWorld's Response To The BBC: It's Shameful To Try To Intimidate Our
Contributors!
11 June 2020
The BBC reached out to OneWorld as part of their investigation into our broad
network of partner sites which they claim has been spreading "disinformation"
about the coronavirus and other unspecified topics. They also provocatively
asked whether OneWorld was created as an attempt by the Russian state "to
interfere with the political processes of a foreign country", which we
interpreted as a reverse-engineered question which strongly hinted that they'd
already arrived at their politically motivated (and dare we say, defamatory)
conclusion but wanted to make a pretense of "objectivity" by including our
obvious denial in their forthcoming piece. This is our official response to the
BBC, and we encourage everyone to share it widely.

OneWorld publishes a variety of views from many contributors, which don't
necessarily reflect the editorial position of the outlet. Sometimes these views
are contradictory ones, which is intended to generate a discussion so that it's
easier for our readers to arrive at their own conclusions. Nobody is told what
to write, all submissions are voluntary, and all articles that are published are
done so with no edits apart from grammatical ones. Moreover, the public sharing
of someone's opinion shouldn't be interpreted by anyone else as ""interfering
with the political processes of a foreign country" (hereafter "foreign
interference") because that stigmatizes free speech. Everyone has the right to
share their views about whatever it may be, and OneWorld is always happy to
consider publishing rebuttals to the articles that we release if someone submits
one to us.

It is shameful for the BBC to condemn someone's opinion as "foreign
interference" just because it's publicly shared on a non-Mainstream-Media site.
There are times when our authors sometimes shared similar observations as your
company and even arrived at similar conclusions, such as one of our writers'
constructively critical takes on Russian-Chinese, Russian-Indian, and
Russian-Belarusian relations, among many others, for instance. If the BBC
applies that same standard to itself that it's applying to OneWorld, then those
observations and conclusions should also be considered to be "foreign
interference" too, which would mean that there supposedly aren't any concerns in
any of those bilateral partnerships despite that not being the case at all.

We at OneWorld solely aspire to reflect reality as accurately as we can based on
how our writers understand it to be, accepting that people perceive reality
differently but nevertheless believing that everyone's submissions to us are in
good faith and aren't any attempt on their part to abuse our platform for the
purpose of misleading others. We aren't responsible for what someone else writes
and have a disclaimer on our site saying that their views don't necessarily
reflect our platform's own, which is an industry standard. It isn't "foreign
interference" for people to share their views about their own countries or the
rest of the world on a foreign platform. If it was, then everyone on Facebook
and Twitter would be suspected of participating in an American "foreign
interference" operation.

It's ridiculous to even countenance such an accusation, yet that just goes to
show the politically motivated agenda behind selectively applying that standard
to OneWorld. We regard your investigation as an attempt to defame our platform
and everyone who contributes to it by trying to scare them away from cooperating
with us out of fear that failing to do so would make them "foreign agents" per
your provocative question about whether our activities amount to "foreign
interference". We are thankful that our writers will not be intimidated by this
UK-taxpayer-funded effort to get them to self-censor their views in
contravention of the free speech principle that your state patron officially
purports to be in favor of, and in a sense, we are actually thankful to you too
for the global exposure that you're about to give us (and we don't write this
sarcastically).

If you really thought that our platform was problematic, then the best course of
action would have been to simply ignore it, not promote it across the world and
make us a household name. You're helping us attract global attention like we've
set out to do since day one so that as many people as possible can become aware
of our interpretation of what's happening in the world and thus be able to more
confidently arrive at their own conclusions about various events. It's ironic
that the British taxpayers of all folks are funding this invaluable advertising
campaign which we wouldn't be able to afford unless someone decided to do it pro
bono for us like you are. Going by your accusations against us, does that mean
that the BBC is also supposedly spreading "disinformation" and might even be
"interfering with the political processes of a foreign country?"

By The OneWorld Team

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