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Will Gary Lineker get a red card from the BBC over his tweets? Probably not

Mark My Words

The Guardian Gary Lineker may have famously managed to avoid being carded for foul play during a 16-year professional football career, but the latest politically loaded social media salvo from the BBC’s highest-paid presenter has the corporation’s director general seeing red. In that sense Gary Lineker is bigger than the BBC.

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A call for a public inquiry into the impact of media and tech on democracy

Stephen Waddington

Trust in the media was 37%. The rise of social media and tech platforms in the last decade means that anyone can create and share content. Social media fulfils an unhealthy trait of the human nature that rejects the truth unless it confirms a bias. It’s not hard to understand why. It’s not all bad news.