The BBC drew scorn after a headline about the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay declared she was a “casualty of campus culture wars” on social media.

The post to the news division’s official X account, featuring the headline “Harvard’s Claudine Gay a casualty of campus culture wars,” neglected to mention that Gay quit after several instances of alleged plagiarism in her doctoral dissertation from the late 1990s surfaced.

It linked to an article by Anthony Zurcher, a North America-based correspondent for the BBC, who wrote that Gay’s resignation “is being celebrated as a high-profile victory by conservatives who have objected to her on ideological grounds since shortly after she took the job in July 2023.”

The British outlet — which has also come under fire over its policy of labeling Hamas killers as militants instead of terrorists — quickly deleted the post after the backlash.

Zucker’s article was slammed by readers online who took to X and added a Community Notes reference that cited “several incidences of plagiarism being discovered in her academic work.”

The BBC later posted an item on X announcing that it had deleted the original message “because the article’s original headline has been amended.”

The altered headline read: “Departure of Harvard’s Claudine Gay plays into campus culture wars.”

The Post has sought comment from the BBC.

A source close to the situation denied that the Community Notes played a role in the edited headline and the deleted X post.

The source told The Post that the headline was changed “so it more accurately reflected the content of our story.”

Jon Sopel, one of Zucker’s colleagues at the BBC, criticized the framing of the story. He mentioned Gay’s testimony before Congress during which she declined to state that calls for genocide against the Jews amounted to a violation of the university’s code of conduct.

Critics have demanded the resignations of Gay and other college presidents who they claim have failed to explicitly condemn antisemitism in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists which left around 1,200 Israelis dead.

“You sure you’ve got this headline right? What brought her down was her inability to say that calling for a holocaust would be offensive to Jewish students,” Sopel wrote.

He noted that Gay was “condemned by left and right” — adding that “calling it ‘culture wars’ is lazy and misleading methinks.”

The BBC isn’t the only mainstream media outlet that has come under fire for its coverage of the Gay resignation.

The Associated Press was criticized for a headline on Wednesday which read: “Harvard president’s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism.”

The AP headline was later changed to: “Plagiarism charges downed Harvard’s president. A conservative attack helped to fan the outrage.”

“Gay repeatedly violated Harvard’s rules against plagiarism,” X owner Elon Musk tweeted in response to the AP headline.

The Post has sought comment from AP.