i reports.The new rules were introduced on Thursday by the BBC’s director general Time Davie, and include social media restrictions alongside a ban on news reporters attending “public demonstrations or gatherings about controversial issues” regardless of whether they are doing so in a personal or professional capacity.Davie said that employees should avoid “virtue signaling,” and refrain from endorsing campaigns “no matter how apparently worthy the cause or how much their message appears to be accepted or uncontroversial.”It could, in theory, mean that an LGBTQ reporter could face punishment for attending a Pride event, or participating in a march for LGBTQ equality.