As the BBC's Twitter Stars Fall Silent, Their Boss Looks Further Afield

Tim Davie’s first speech as director general was greeted on Twitter with a deafening silence by BBC staff, many of whom seem to have taken a recent sabbatical from social media.

All those that depend on the BBC for their livelihoods had already read the memo that anyone wanting to be an “opinionated columnist or a partisan campaigner on social media … should not be working at the BBC”.

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