**BBC Verify** is a specialized unit within BBC News, comprising around 60 journalists focused on forensic verification, fact-checking, and countering disinformation through radical transparency.[1][2][4] Launched in May 2023, BBC Verify emerged from BBC News chief executive Deborah Turness's vision to restore trust in legacy media amid rising "fake news" on platforms like TikTok. Turness, appointed in 2022, championed the initiative at the Sir Harry Summit, pulling together existing teams such as User Generated Content (UGC), World Service Disinformation Team, Monitoring Disinformation, Reality Check, and data analysts like Ros Atkins and Marianna Spring. It operates as a dedicated brand, investigative squad, and physical London newsroom space with a studio for live outputs like *Verified Live* on weekdays.[1][2][3][4] The team's core mission involves advanced open-source intelligence (OSINT), video authentication, data analysis, and evidence-sharing beyond standard journalism. Journalists showcase their processes—using metadata, geolocation, satellite imagery, and algorithms—across BBC platforms, including websites, TV, radio, and streaming, marked by a distinctive blue BBC Reith typeface logo evoking global data points.[1][3][4] Key achievements highlight its impact: During Libya's 2023 Derna dam bursts, Verify geolocated videos, debunked misattributed flood footage from elsewhere, and confirmed a resilient mosque amid ruins, preventing false narratives.[4] It has tackled Israel-Iran strikes via satellite analysis, Hurricane Milton conspiracies, and broader media scrutiny, absorbing Reality Check while expanding to social platforms.[2][4] Currently, with a £3.2 million annual salary bill for 63 staff, Verify dominates BBC output via a prominent website corner and Turness's "front line" rhetoric for truth.[2] Notable aspects include potential U.S. trademark overlaps with Tegna's VERIFY (distinguished by BBC brandin