Steven Bartlett is fact-checking "The Diary of a CEO" but leaving his interview style unchanged. Natasha Moustache/Getty Images

The top producer of the hit podcast "The Diary of a CEO" says the show has raised its bar for accuracy, an effort that began after a BBC investigation found it had shared harmful health misinformation.

"We're being more rigorous than we have in the past," Hans Sahni, the executive producer for "DOAC," told Business Insider. "That bar gets higher and higher every day."

The BBC reported in late 2024 that 15 of 23 health-related episodes contained an average of 14 potentially harmful claims.

A core part of "DOAC's" accuracy effort is fact-checking its guests. The show began its own fact-checking about six months after the BBC report. The team runs every episode through an AI-assisted review using Claude, Gemini, and Consensus. It also hired an independent medical Ph.D.…