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@jfmezei @BBCRD Yes! I also follow a BBC News bot and I'd love to see an official human curated version. Quite nice to just get punctuated updates throughout the day rather than headlines all the time (I stopped following a couple of newspapers for that reason)

Like 13 February at 15:41 | Wall-to-wall | Open on toot.wales

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🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼

@mightyriot
Absolutely wholeheartedly agree with this. I unfollow if it's a bot, I have NO interest in just posting without interaction.

@jfmezei @BBCRD

13 February at 15:50 | Open on mastodon.nl

Rhiannon

@pascaline @jfmezei @BBCRD Well I also like the headlines being placed together in a little bulletin, so rather than a whole feed full of individual headlines, you get one longer post with six or seven key points. I think the AI bot that's out there summarising BBC News atm posts every three hours or so.

13 February at 15:54 | Open on toot.wales

Flax_Vert

@mightyriot @jfmezei @BBCRD "We have been asked by a number of people on Mastodon to include BBC News social accounts in the trial. Because of the potential sensitivity around news stories, we need to be particularly careful with our editorial processes and within the scope of this trial we are not in a position to guarantee time and effort from other teams outside of R&D. This means we haven't been able to include BBC News in the trial yet, but we are working on it."

14 February at 11:51 | Open on mastodonapp.uk

Rhiannon

@Flax_Vert @jfmezei @BBCRD Yes I also read that, I'm still keen to let the BBC know it's something I want!

14 February at 11:52 | Open on toot.wales