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The BBC has gone undercover on Telegram to investigate how Ukrainians are being offered thousands of dollars to stage arson attacks and bombings against their own country. Ukraine has accused Russia of using Telegram - and in some cases TikTok or even video game platforms - to
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Sabotage by smartphone: Ukrainian teenagers are being recruited on Telegram to commit acts of sabotage against their own country. @BBCtrending investigates with @hardoond and BBC Ukrainian in the last episode of our current series - Moldova goes to the polls this weekend. Will a fugitive oligarch sway the election? The BBC goes undercover to investigate how a Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt the vote 🎧
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Judging by how often US President Donald Trump has repeated the slogan “Drill, baby, drill”, you might be tempted to think he coined the phrase. 🧵
GIF - No, there isn’t a "white genocide" happening in South Africa - read more about our latest episode from @griffmedia and @mpholakaje on the BBC Verify Live page
- Unmasking the mysterious informer who aided President Putin’s efforts to crush dissent: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… Anna Korobokova boasted online of taking pleasure in denouncing hundreds of her fellow Russians to the authorities. But nobody had met her or knew who she really was.
- What does the digital footprint of a smuggler tell us about his criminal activities? We’ve tracked one man held responsible for the deaths of several migrants aboard a boat that went adrift earlier this year. Listen to ‘From a smugglers TikTok to tragedy’ to hear more.
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NEW from BBC Verify: we’ve tracked down a smuggler behind a deadly migrant crossing earlier this year. cc. @shrutimenon10, @HazaraZubair , @FloraCarmichael @dan_isaacs @biancabritton, @DilayYalcin_ + more - Unlabelled political ads, thousands of inauthentic accounts and mysterious comments - this was TikTok in Romania ahead of December's elections. Far-right candidate Calin Georgescu's shock victory in the first round of elections was annulled last year amid accusations of Russian
- Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta would abandon the use of independent fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram in the United States. Instead, the company says it will be following X’s lead by shifting to Community Notes. But what does this shift really mean? Will
- How big a problem is music streaming fraud? The US Department of Justice has accused musician Mike Smith of using AI tools and thousands of bots to fraudulently stream songs billions of times - taking millions of dollars of royalties which otherwise would have been paid to real
- BBC Trending repostedHow did a social media post about a strange-looking ship 🚢trigger an explosion of conspiracy theories? I have been investigating how false claims about last year's flash floods in Valencia spread online 👇 Watch here: youtu.be/Xa-a4udzZ4g?si…
