{"id":38837,"date":"2025-05-16T23:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/16\/bbc-boss-says-disinformation-trust-crisis-putting-social-fabric-of-uk-at-risk-6\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T23:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:08:56","slug":"bbc-boss-says-disinformation-trust-crisis-putting-social-fabric-of-uk-at-risk-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/16\/bbc-boss-says-disinformation-trust-crisis-putting-social-fabric-of-uk-at-risk-6\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC boss says disinformation \u2018trust crisis\u2019 putting social fabric of UK at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Davie pitches BBC as unifying force as he announces plans to make more news content for YouTube and TikTok<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s status as a cohesive, democratic society is at risk for the first time in a generation as the rise of social media platforms and disinformation fuel a \u201ctrust crisis\u201d, the BBC\u2019s director general has said.<\/p>\n<p>In a wide-ranging address about the future of the corporation, Tim Davie said BBC News would start to make special content for platforms such as YouTube and TikTok, where disinformation can go unchecked, as he couched the broadcaster as a \u201cprecious national asset\u201d preventing the UK from becoming a society in which there were no shared facts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/may\/14\/bbc-tim-davie-disinformation-trust-crisis-social-fabric-uk-at-risk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Davie pitches BBC as unifying force as he announces plans to make more news content for YouTube and TikTok Britain\u2019s status as a cohesive, democratic society is at risk for the first time in a generation as the rise of social media platforms and disinformation fuel a \u201ctrust crisis\u201d, the BBC\u2019s director general has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}