Trending
Trending - explaining the stories the world is sharing...
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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01kdgrn
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- Trending - explaining the stories the world is sharing...
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-03-02 06:59
- last episode published
- 2024-03-02 05:00
- publication frequency
- 13.22 days
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- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
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- Number of Episodes
- 208
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| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-03-02 | In 2024 yet another Kennedy is making a bid for the White House. Robert F Kennedy Jr - nephew of the late President John F Kennedy - is enjoying strong polling numbers for an independent candidate. He’s running on a platform of promising to take on pow... |
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| 2024-02-24 | In 2011, Tunisians took to the streets against the ruling authoritarian regime. Catalysed by social media, the protests would reverberate around the world, spark the Arab Spring and lead to significant democratic reforms in the country. More recently, ... |
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| 2024-02-17 | In Malaysian Borneo, indigenous people have struggled for land rights against companies and the state. Using new mapping technology, communities in Borneo’s rainforests are racing to prove their claims. In this episode of Trending we’ll be exploring ho... |
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| 2024-02-10 | Marianna Spring talks to a survivor of the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017 about how posts on a social media account made him question an event he’d witnessed with his own eyes.Presenter: Marianna Spring Producers: Ben Carter and Emma Close Editor: ... |
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| 2024-02-03 | "A flood of disinformation has erupted across social media in the online propaganda battle that’s being waged alongside the physical conflict between Israel and Hamas. Everything from video game clips falsely presented as genuine combat footage, to the... |
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| 2024-01-27 | When an audio recording alleged to be from the Mayor of one of the world's largest cities started circulating online, reality was called into question. Mexico City's mayor, claimed the clip- which sounded like he was discussing a campaign against a pol... |
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| 2024-01-20 | A BBC investigation has uncovered a network of fake social media accounts seemingly working together to promote the Ugandan government and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. Online, an information battle appears to be going on – one being waged by hu... |
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| 2024-01-13 | Over the summer, a mysterious Twitter persona published details of over 14,500 social media accounts - all of them controlled by real-life Serbian citizens, it's claimed. They stand accused of posting… whatever the President’s party tells them to.It’s ... |
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| 2023-10-27 | People smugglers are selling illegal routes out of Pakistan to Europe on social media. We’ve gone undercover with BBC Newsnight and BBC Urdu to expose how smugglers are luring potential migrants into taking dangerous voyages. They advertise online… in ... |
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| 2023-10-21 | Earlier in October, Australia took to the polls in a referendum and rejected the establishment of an indigenous advisory body in the constitution - the Voice. Beyond the typical controversies, social media became flooded with false information. In th... |
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