In December 2024 BBC journalists found eight altered or absent BBC quotes across 62 responses containing BBC quotes (13 percent as the report computes it), and in mid 2025 journalists at 22 organisations rated 12 percent of 1,053 quote-bearing responses as having significant quote-accuracy issues. For direct quotes attributed to a cited source, the two human-rated rounds agree on roughly one response in eight.

The BBC anchor contributes a small sample checked against the broadcaster's own articles by people who in part wrote them; the EBU anchor contributes a sample seventeen times larger. The BBC took part in both audits, so they are not independent. The two are not the same quantity in the strict sense: the BBC figure divides quotes by responses, the EBU figure is a rating per response. The step treats both as response-level and says so; agreement at 12 to 13 percent across rounds is recorded, not explained.

The EBU data split by assistant shows the 12 percent is carried by one assistant (Gemini at 20 percent) so that the typical rate is far lower; or a per-quote count shows the BBC's 13 percent changes materially with the right denominator. Query: per-assistant and per-quote counts in both reports' appendices.

A direct quote with a link is safe to reuse. In both audits about one in eight responses with quotes had a quote that was altered or not in the cited piece.