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by gala8y 1771 days ago
What surprises me is that BBC is offloading content from FB and making it their 'articles'/'news'.

At the bottom of the 'article' there is a snippet:

> The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. View original post on Facebook

From top of the page it looks like standard news piece, filed under World / US & Canada. The 'article' does not mention that "it’s weird, but a known fish" as @aikinai stated in another comment. All of this is troubling.

Gee..., you can be on BBC, too!

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The BBC have been making questionable editorial decisions over the last couple years in an effort to compete in the online news space. I imagine under the guise of keeping viewers around for the "real" hard hitting news stuff. The click bait is definitely growing.

I've also noticed they've become extremely trigger happy with regard to what can be classified as "breaking news". The label has lost all importance from being overused.

Aren’t the BBC heavily influenced by the 77th?