Channel 4 has admitted to knowing that the so-called “undercover reporters” behind a recent anti-Reform investigation are foreign-funded climate activists, raising concerns about the state-owned broadcaster’s impartiality.
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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: State-owned British broadcaster Channel 4 admitted to portraying foreign-funded net zero activists as “undercover reporters” in a recent investigation into Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party. 📺 DETAIL: On Thursday, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse Raheem Kassam posted a video to X (formerly Twitter) of Channel 4’s press office admitting by phone call that “Verbatim Investigations,” ostensibly a group of independent undercover reporters, are the “same people” as the Center for Climate Reporting, an activist group that supports net zero. Channel 4’s press office stated that the investigation was brought to the broadcaster by Verbatim Investigations, rather than conceived by the broadcaster itself. The broadcaster also stated that it was aware of chief investigator Lawrence Carter’s involvement in the organization. Carter previously headed Unearthed, the investigations wing of Greenpeace, and was at one point arrested for breaking into and occupying a power station. He later co-founded the Centre for Climate Reporting (CCR). As uncovered by Kassam on Thursday, Carter incorporated Verbatim Investigations in early July after its activists posed as prospective donors to Reform as part of a report for Channel 4. Significantly, Carter shares the same office address as Reform Watch Ltd, an anti-Reform activist group. The CCR is funded by several grant-making organizations, including the KR Foundation, a Denmark-based organization that also funds the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, a pro-censorship group. Leaders of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in the United States Congress wrote to Carter back in 2021 for publishing a “substantially edited” and “incomplete record” of a conversation between him and an employee of American oil and gas company ExxonMobil. 💬 KEY QUOTE: “Yeah, no, we are aware they’re the same people.” – Channel 4, responding to questions on whether the broadcaster was aware of Carter’s links to the CCR 🎯 IMPACT: The recent Channel 4 story on Reform demonstrates Carter’s ongoing use of subterfuge combined with the selective editing that saw him rebuked by Congress. The fact that Channel 4 chose to run a report it knew was conducted by an ideologically motivated organization is likely to cast further doubt on Channel 4’s impartiality and the crediblity of its reporting, especially when it concerns matters related to Nigel Farage and Reform. |
HAPPENING NOW: Channel 4 press office admits to me moments ago that they were aware “Verbatim Investigations” are the “same people” as the foreign funded Center for Climate Reporting, a net zero activist group, rather than “undercover reporters.” pic.twitter.com/qy1zfDd6Mx
— Raheem J. Kassam (@RaheemKassam) September 3, 2026
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