Count referrals from blog view to website view in social channel grouping - google-analytics

Would be most grateful for any advice on this.
I have two analytics views under the same profile:
Website (mywebsite.com)
Blog (mywebsite.com/blog)
The website view excludes all traffic to the blog folder and the blog view only looks at traffic within the blog folder.
I’d like to adjust the social channel grouping on the website view to ensure any referrals from the blog to the website are counted in the social channel. I set up a regex to target referrals from mywebsite.com/blog/* however it seems any clicks from the blog are currently being counted as direct traffic (perhaps due to the filter?).
Would very much appreciate any suggested solutions / implementations to achieve this.
Many thanks!

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