{"id":436388,"date":"2026-01-27T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436388\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:00:07","slug":"bbc-news-closes-bbc-trending-investigative-unit-after-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436388\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC News Closes BBC Trending Investigative Unit After 13 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bbc-news\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bbc-news\" data-tag=\"bbc-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a> is closing BBC Trending, an investigative journalism team tasked with shedding light on the darker side of social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline hears that the British national broadcaster is closing four jobs as part of the cost-cutting decision, which has been bemoaned internally amid rising disinformation online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBBC News declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBBC Trending launched in 2013 and was dubbed the \u201cbureau on the internet.\u201d The unit published investigations on the BBC News website and broadcast a regular radio show on BBC World Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBBC Trending\u2019s recent investigations include revealing how <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckg4xjk1g1xo\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckg4xjk1g1xo\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook grifters were profiting from AI-generated Holocaust images<\/a>, and examining the phenomenon of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w3ct72tn\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w3ct72tn\" target=\"_blank\">Down\u2019s Syndrome deepfakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA journalist who worked for BBC Trending said the unit had \u201cmarried artful and considered storytelling with meticulous investigative journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe BBC World Service announced plans last year to cut 130 jobs as part of efforts save around \u00a36M ($8.2M) by the end of March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAt the time, BBC News\u2019 acting chief Jonathan Munro said: \u201cThese changes will ensure we operate effectively with the resource we have, creating the most impact for audiences internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: BBC News is closing BBC Trending, an investigative journalism team tasked with shedding light on the darker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[33865,49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-436388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}