BBC News Closes Social Media Investigations Unit After 13 Years
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EXCLUSIVE: BBC News is closing BBC Trending, an investigative journalism team tasked with shedding light on the darker side of social media. Deadline hears that the British national broadcaster is closing four jobs as part of the cost-cutting decision, which has been bemoaned internally amid rising disinformation online. BBC News declined to comment. BBC Trending […]