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Marco Silva 🌍
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🚨 NEW 🚨 How did this Kenyan farmer become a champion of climate change denial? I have been looking for answers… 🧵
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Marianna Spring
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I’ve been investigating the social media frenzy around the Princess of Wales - and the body-double conspiracy theories, actively promoted by algorithms on X and TikTok to millions. How Kate body-double conspiracy theory spread on social media.
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Social media helped spark pro-democracy protests in Tunisia in 2011. But under the rule of President Kais Saied, activists say online debate is being supressed. On BBC Trending, we speak to people in Tunisia who have experienced first-hand how social media can be used to surveil
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Jacqui Wakefield
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I investigated how technology and social media is changing the fight for indigenous land rights in Borneo, and some of the tactics being used to counter it ... Listen here!!
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BBC Trending
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How a mayor in Mexico became embroiled in a deepfake audio scandal - @BBCTrending investigates
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Marco Silva 🌍
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🚨 NEW🧵 I have uncovered a network of nearly 200 *fake* social media accounts operating in Uganda 🇺🇬. It's a complicated story, but it starts with this photo👇
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Olga Robinson
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The Israeli-Gaza war has seen a huge surge in disinformation denying atrocities and human suffering, including false claims about staged deaths and “crisis actors” Experts worry this may impact the prospects of longer-term reconciliation - with @Shayan86
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BBC News (World)
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Strikes on south Gaza: BBC verifies attacks in areas of ‘safety’
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Marianna Spring
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When two 4-year-old boys were killed - one Palestinian, one Israeli - their deaths were denied on social media. I’ve investigated what happened to Omar and Omer, tracking down family, friends & witnesses, distressed by posts. Symbolic of information war.
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This month, Australia voted in a referendum and rejected a plan to give greater political rights to Indigenous people. In this episode of @BBCTrending we explore how The Voice referendum became a lighting rod for extreme conspiracy theorists.
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Marco Silva 🌍
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🚨New🚨 Conspiracy theories linking "15-minute cities" to sinister ploys to control people may once have been the preserve of fringe groups on social media - but have they now entered the mainstream of British politics?🧵
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Videos filmed across India show groups of men harassing and even attacking young couples in the street. @BBCTrending looks into the ‘Bhagwa love trap’ and ‘Love Jihad’ theories spiralling online - and the consequences in the real world
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