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Print and shoot: The rise of 3D-printed guns
How the technology to print your own lethal weapon is promoted on social media
31 May 2025,17 mins
Brazilian farmers are (very) online
Rural pride goes viral in Brazil, but is it masking deeper environmental issues?
24 May 2025,17 mins
Are we dating the same person?
How a Facebook group exposing cheating boyfriends triggered an explicit retaliation
17 May 2025,17 mins
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: From a smuggler’s TikTok to tragedy
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
port bros
BBC Trending investigates the impact of 'port 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 ’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
Trending is moving to the Documentary Podcast
New episodes of Trending can be found in the BBC World Service's Documentary Podcast
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