"As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media applications all linked together by common protocols. The most common software used in this area is Mastodon, a Twitter-like social networking service with around 2 million active monthly users. We are now running an experimental BBC Mastodon server at https://social.bbc where you can follow some of the BBC’s social media accounts, including BBC R&D, Radio 4 and 5 Live. We hope to be able to add more accounts from other areas of the BBC at some point."

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[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

BBC is just a propaganda apparatus of the British government.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago (1 children)

even if that's true, which it isn't, wouldn't that still be a hundred times bettee than shit like Fox News? or what Bezos did with news company he bought?

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They are just the same as fox news

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

well that's some ignorant shit, lol

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I have no idea what I'm saying"

[–] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wouldn't read too hard into it, he's just trolling this comment thread based on his profile 🙄

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It is successful troll then. They got good numbers on the down side of votes. That's the troll goal, right?

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 year ago

whats about my profile?

[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

That’s not true at all. I would like to see your evidence of claim on this one.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you look at the structure of the BBC, it's an INDEPENDENT, publicly funded news organisation. The government has no say in its editorial. It has exposed many British government scandals in the past.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While the person you're replying to seems to be trolling, there is a legitimate argument that the BBC is influenced by the current government. The argument is that the current government has had a hand in appointing the current BBC director, and he's a member of the Conservative party or a donor.

I haven't looked into it for a while, so am not up to speed on the details, but if the detractors are correct, it's not a good look for the BBC.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, BBC news has been corrupted from the inside. It used to be impressively independent of the UK government. It was happy to hold any politician's feet to the fire. This is why the conservative party worked so hard to put their own stooge at the top. Careers now stop progressing, if you are overly critical of the government, at least in the news department.

Overall the BBC still leans slightly left, and produces a lot of good material. I no longer trust it to report evenly on our government anymore. It's still a lot better than most news organisations overall however.

[–] nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

They have their moments of this. But they still do have some genuinely good stuff.

[–] A10@kerala.party 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every media is. You must filter news from multiple Organisation to understand the Real news

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 1 year ago

true that.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

At least it's not as bad as Al Jazeera.