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What happened last night in Sweden?

02/03/2017 GMT

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What happened last night in Sweden; Twitter bots target UK election; why do we stammer?

What happened last night in Sweden - the strange tale of Donald Trump and a report by Ruth Alexander of More Or Less; Twitter bots target  UK election; and why do we stammer?

What happened last night in Sweden? Ruth Alexander tells the strange tale that connects Donald Trump, rape in Sweden, immigration and her reporting on More or Less.


Why did a network of Twitter accounts, usually the source of pro-Russian messages, pump out tweets about a very specific British election? BBC Trending’s Mike Wendling investigates.


And why do some people stammer? More than 70 million people globally – that’s about 1% of the world’s population - are affected by this neurological condition. Becky Milligan talks to people with a stammer to find out the effect on their lives. She also discovers what treatments are available and whether stammering can be cured.

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