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The TikTokers accused of triggering an election scandal

BBC Trending investigates campaigns which led to the cancellation of Romania’s election.

10 May 2025,17 mins

BBC Trending tracks the digital footprint of a wanted people smuggler

03 May 2025,17 mins

Can Community Notes clean up your feed?

Will Meta’s move to X-style Community Notes work?

22 Feb 2025,17 mins

Quadrobic panic in Russia over craze to dress and walk on all fours like animals

Why Russia is cracking down on the craze to dress as animals and run on all fours

15 Feb 2025,17 mins

School for scammers: Inside Nigeria’s hustle kingdoms

How con artists learn the tricks of their trade at dedicated scamming schools in Nigeria.

08 Feb 2025,17 mins

The dark side of music streaming

BBC Trending investigates how fake streams are stealing millions from the music industry.

01 Feb 2025,17 mins

Ukraine war: The cost of bearing witness

Open Source analysts and fact-checkers describe the toll of documenting the Ukraine war.

25 Jan 2025,17 mins

Passport bros

BBC Trending investigates the impact of 'passport bros' on Medellín, Colombia

18 Jan 2025,17 mins

Scammed by the fake Chinese police

The con men who threaten to extradite their victims to China if you don’t pay “bail”

06 Jul 2024,17 mins

Valencia's floods: Engineered weather?

BBC Trending investigates conspiracy theories that swirled around Valencia's floods

04 Jan 2025,18 mins

The cost of an addiction to Somali TikTok 'battles'

Cash-strapped and verbally abused – players of the TikTok game taking Somalia by storm.

02 Nov 2024,17 mins

Meet the anti-witch hunter

Meet the man who intervenes to protect people accused of witchcraft across Africa.

26 Oct 2024,17 mins

Yami Baito: Inside Japan’s dark part-time jobs

How job postings on social media are luring people into organised crime in Japan.

19 Oct 2024,17 mins

The curse of the blessing scam

The female crooks who exploit superstition and family love to swindle other women.

12 Oct 2024,17 mins

The Baku initiative?

Is Azerbaijan capitalising on France’s struggle in the South Pacific?

05 Oct 2024,17 mins

An (online) storm in a Philippine rainforest

How a nature reserve in the Philippines got caught in an information battle

28 Sep 2024,17 mins

Iran: Woman, life, surveillance

We speak to women targeted by the Iranian government after posting on social media

21 Sep 2024,17 mins

Can we live without our phones?

Marianna Spring investigates the impact of social media on teens.

14 Sep 2024,17 mins

The scammers who make you kidnap yourself

Why are criminals tricking Chinese foreign students into faking their own kidnapping?

13 Jul 2024,17 mins

The woman who built an 'aidbot'

BBC Trending speaks to the Lebanese engineer harnessing WhatsApp to deliver aid.

11 Jan 2025,17 mins

The American pushing Russian disinformation

An American ex-cop living in Moscow is pumping out messages targeting American voters

29 Jun 2024,17 mins

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27 Jun 2024,1 min

Colombia’s guerrilla recruitment video problem

Fighters from dissident armed groups in Colombia are using TikTok to recruit youngsters.

22 Jun 2024,17 mins

The Kenyan influencer championing climate denial

How a Kenyan farmer became the flag bearer for fossil fuels in Africa

15 Jun 2024,18 mins

Is Russia targeting Poland's farmers’ protests?

A pro-Russian image from a farmers protest in Poland went viral. Who's the man behind it?

08 Jun 2024,20 mins

Love and deception in the age of AI

How is AI redefining love on Tinder?

01 Jun 2024,19 mins

Long Covid: Think yourself well?

BBC Trending investigates a controversial treatment programme being promoted online.

25 May 2024,18 mins

The anti-vax candidate?

Will Robert F Kennedy Jr’s views on vaccines help or hinder his bid for the White House?

02 Mar 2024,20 mins

Democracy on the brink in Tunisia?

Is social media being used to surveil and suppress debate in Tunisia?

24 Feb 2024,19 mins

The new fight for land rights

How indigenous Malaysians are using technology and social media to assert land rights.

17 Feb 2024,18 mins