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Elon Musk’s X has become the latest major US social media company to block the accounts of Saudi Arabian dissidents so they are no longer visible inside the kingdom, following orders from Saudi authorities.

A cleaner who filmed Snapchat videos of herself driving at nearly 100mph before a crash that left two people dead has had her prison sentence increased by nearly three years.

A 19-year-old woman whose images were used to create fake Tinder, TikTok and Instagram profiles leading men to believe she was their girlfriend is to be paid compensation.

A teenager fatally stabbed a 16-year-old boy without saying a word and with "no hesitation", a court has heard.

Age verification means that the sector’s biggest players will now have access to information that will only make them richer and more powerful

The social media ban for under-16s is not a “silver bullet”, the Technology Secretary acknowledged as she faced a backlash from firms which will be hit by the restriction.

Britain’s plans to ban social media for under-16s will push teenagers towards more harmful platforms, the world’s biggest technology companies have said as ministers push to enact the new restrictions by next spring.

A US lawyer who sued tech giants Meta and Google for $6 million in a historic case after they were found liable for social media addiction has told LBC the UK ban is a "landmark moment" and said tech firms must be hit in the pocket.

Keir Starmer will ban under-16s from major social media apps such as TikTok, Instagram and X in sweeping restrictions described as “Australia plus”, the Guardian understands.

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said social media firms “had their chance” to self-regulate as new data reveals that thousands of criminal offenses have been linked to Snapchat in the last five years.

The government is to review the sentencing of three teenage boys who raped two girls in separate attacks, after criticism their sentences were too lenient.

A senior NHS manager has been jailed for 28 years for raping a 12-year-old and sexually abusing five other girls after grooming them on Snapchat.

Jay Slater’s mother has revealed he sent a final social media message to a friend shortly before he fell to his death in a remote ravine in Tenerife.

An “abhorrent” Snapchat predator has been jailed for 14 years for raping a 12-year-old girl and exploiting dozens of others in one of the UK’s biggest online child sexual abuse investigations.

Young children are being arrested at a rate of nearly one a week for terrorism offences and plotting attacks on British soil, an LBC investigation has discovered.

Police are conducting an investigation following a viral video on social media that shows a footrest being thrown from the top floor of the Westfield Stratford shopping center, narrowly missing unsuspecting shoppers below.

A woman who was stabbed, punched and kicked in a transphobic assault planned on Snapchat is still living "in fear" after the attack, a court has heard.

A dangerous drug with unpredictable effects is being sold to Liverpool teenagers, say city experts.

A man accused of killing two teenage girls on a hike in a case which gripped America for years is finally set to face trial this week.

Social media sites, like Snapchat and Instagram, must put in place stronger safeguarding measures to help fight a trend of people copying material around animal cruelty, a campaigner says

Dinal De Alwis had just started sixth form after excelling at school when he was contacted by someone on social media app Snapchat who went onto blackmail the teenager

Alan Lawson was brutally assaulted and then left for dead at his home in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, on Sunday, it is believed - and died of his injuries in hospital two days later