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October 6, 2021updated 30 Sep 2022 9:43am

Four BBC journalists disciplined over social media guidelines which ban ‘virtue signalling’

By Charlotte Tobitt

Update 6 October 2021:

Four BBC journalists were formally disciplined over their social media use during Tim Davie’s first year as director-general in which he introduced new guidelines.

Between 1 September 2020 and 31 August 2021 four cases among journalists in the BBC’s public service broadcasting division were formally dealt with and closed under its internal disciplinary policy, according to a Freedom of Information request by Press Gazette.

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