BBC said it would hold a review over how presenters can use social media, including freelancers outside news and current affairs, such as Lineker.
Britain's BBC reinstated its highest-paid presenter Gary Lineker on Monday after a decision to take the sports host off air over his criticism of the government sparked a near mutiny at the public broadcaster.
The publicly-funded BBC had suspended Mr Lineker for breaching its impartiality rules by comparing the rhetoric of Britain's interior minister Suella Braverman to the language used in 1930s Germany.
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