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The American pushing Russian disinformation
An American ex-cop living in Moscow is pumping out messages targeting American voters
The woman who built an 'aidbot'
BBC Trending speaks to the Lebanese engineer harnessing WhatsApp to deliver aid.
The scammers who make you kidnap yourself
Why are criminals tricking Chinese foreign students into faking their own kidnapping?
Can we live without our phones?
Marianna Spring investigates the impact of social media on teens.
Iran: Woman, life, surveillance
We speak to women targeted by the Iranian government after posting on social media
An (online) storm in a Philippine rainforest
How a nature reserve in the Philippines got caught in an information battle
The Baku initiative?
Is Azerbaijan capitalising on ’s struggle in the South Pacific?
The curse of the blessing scam
The female crooks who exploit superstition and family love to swindle other women.
Yami Baito: Inside Japan’s dark part-time jobs
How job postings on social media are luring people into organised crime in Japan.
Meet the anti-witch hunter
Meet the man who intervenes to protect people accused of witchcraft across Africa.
The cost of an addiction to Somali TikTok 'battles'
Cash-strapped and verbally abused – players of the TikTok game taking Somalia by storm.
Valencia's floods: Engineered weather?
BBC Trending investigates conspiracy theories that swirled around Valencia's floods
Scammed by the fake Chinese police
The con men who threaten to extradite their victims to China if you don’t pay “bail”
port bros
BBC Trending investigates the impact of 'port bros' on Medellín, Colombia
Ukraine war: The cost of bearing witness
Open Source analysts and fact-checkers describe the toll of documenting the Ukraine war.
The dark side of music streaming
BBC Trending investigates how fake streams are stealing millions from the music industry.
School for scammers: Inside Nigeria’s hustle kingdoms
How con artists learn the tricks of their trade at dedicated scamming schools in Nigeria.
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
Can Community Notes clean up your feed?
Will Meta’s move to X-style Community Notes work?
BBC Trending: From a smuggler’s TikTok to tragedy
BBC Trending tracks the digital footprint of a wanted people smuggler
The TikTokers accused of triggering an election scandal
BBC Trending investigates campaigns which led to the cancellation of Romania’s election.
Are we dating the same person?
How a Facebook group exposing cheating boyfriends triggered an explicit retaliation
Brazilian farmers are (very) online
Rural pride goes viral in Brazil, but is it masking deeper environmental issues?
Print and shoot: The rise of 3D-printed guns
How the technology to print your own lethal weapon is promoted on social media
