Sabotage by smartphone
Ukrainians are being recruited to carry out sabotage attacks against their own country.
18 Oct 2025,17 mins
The biker gang ‘securing’ deadly Gaza aid sites
How did an anti-Islamic biker gang end up running security at GHF aid sites?
11 Oct 2025,17 mins
Deepfaking disability
We investigate how creators are deepfaking disability to fuel the AI adult industry
04 Oct 2025,17 mins
BBC Trending: Goodreads’ ‘unfair’ rating problem
How ‘unfair’ Goodreads ratings are leaving writers - and readers - mystified.
27 Sep 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
Selling misleading fertility hope
We investigate the science behind fertility supplements being promoted online.
13 Sep 2025,17 mins
Floods hit Texas, then came the cloud talk
Did cloud seeding trigger the Texas floods? No, but that didn’t stop the online rumours.
06 Sep 2025,17 mins
The Facebook grifters making money off AI Holocaust victims
The content creators in Pakistan profiting from AI generated Holocaust victims on Facebook
30 Aug 2025,17 mins
Could your colleague be a North Korean in disguise?
BBC Trending investigates North Korean IT workers applying for remote jobs in the West.
21 Jun 2025,17 mins
No, there isn’t a ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
Why is President Trump so interested in South Africa?
14 Jun 2025,17 mins
Russian informers: Hunting the enemy within
How a victim of Russia’s super informer exposed their persecutor’s real identity
07 Jun 2025,17 mins
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
Passport bros
BBC Trending investigates the impact of 'passport bros' on Medellín, Colombia
18 Jan 2025,17 mins
Will a fugitive oligarch sway Moldova’s election?
The BBC goes undercover, exposing a disinformation campaign ahead of Moldova’s election.
20 Sep 2025,17 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

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