All news on the topic: Social Media
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Ex-Meta safety critic tells court: “You just cannot trust Mark Zuckerberg with kids”
A former engineering director at Meta said CEO Mark Zuckerberg fostered a culture that treated child safety as secondary to growth and engagement on Facebook and Instagram.
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Meta accused of deliberately addicting children to Instagram and Facebook in landmark trial
A jury will decide whether or not Meta designed its apps to “hook the users, hold them for as long as they can, harvest their data and hide the truth from the public"
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Five teenagers killed in horrific M9 wrong-way crash are named
The teens who died in a horrific M9 crash that left five dead and multiple injured can now be named.
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Reform councillor suspended after posts appeared to call for Commons speaker to be hanged
A Reform councillor has been suspended after resurfaced social media posts appeared to show him calling for the Commons speaker to be hanged.
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FBI warns hackers are targeting social media accounts to steal intimate photos and videos
You shouldn’t store any sexually explicit photos or videos on social media accounts or other platforms that are accessible via the internet. Doing so makes you a target for hackers.
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African migrants plan second mass attempt to storm Spain’s Ceuta enclave
African migrants are plotting a second invasion of Ceuta, with an imminent date set for a second wave of mass border crossings.
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Deepfake experts warn AI is making fake content harder to detect
“Nowadays I have a hard time telling what is real from what is synthetic.”
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“Don’t mix it up”: Telegram founder Durov responded to the “terrorist” status in Russia with a collage of Lavrov with the Taliban
Pavel Durov reacted to his inclusion in the Russian list of terrorists and extremists with an ironic collage. In one photo — Durov himself with the caption “accomplice of terrorists.”
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New York introduces mandatory age verification for Instagram, TikTok and other social platforms
New Yorkers who want to see their Instagram or TikTok feed curated by an algorithm, or receive notifications after midnight, will soon have to verify their ages to access those features.
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Trump’s "Tic Tac moment" with JD Vance goes viral during Lindsey Graham’s funeral
President Donald Trump is facing online scrutiny after a “Tic Tac moment” during the funeral service of Senator Lindsey Graham became one of the event’s most widely shared clips. Videos circulating on X showed Trump passing a box of Tic Tac to Vice President JD Vance while seated in the front row.
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov is again trolling the FSB — this time with an avatar of himself as a terrorist
Telegram founder Pavel Durov reacted to a new accusation from the Russian FSB by changing his avatar, depicting himself in the image of a terrorist.
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Green leader Zack Polanski says guillotine post was a mistake as police make inquiries
Green Party leader Zack Polanski said he made an “inadvertent mistake” over a controversial social media image but did not apologise to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.
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Blogger alleges 1Win manager discussed targeting underage users for gambling promotion
Blogger Nikohlai published correspondence with a 1Win manager, which discusses involving an underage audience in gambling.
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Scottish boys as young as 12 targeted in online sextortion blackmail scheme
Scots schoolboys as young as 12 have been targeted online in a social media sextortion plot as police issued an urgent warning to parents.
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Nigel Farage demands police investigate Zack Polanski over guillotine T-shirt post
Zack Polanski has condemned an image of a man wearing a guillotine t-shirt and the words ‘making plans for Nigel’ after Reform UK branded it an ‘incitement to murder’.
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Governor removed after criticism over wearing cycling tights at public event
Is he too sexy for his shorts? A Lycra-clad politician has been sacked after going viral for wearing cycling gear that is a touch too tight.
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Driver crashes after shouting abuse at Nigel Farage during Clacton campaign
This is the moment a heckler crashes their car after shouting “w****r” out the window at Nigel Farage.
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Child predators increasingly coerce victims into creating abuse images and self-harm, experts warn
Cases of predators coercing children into producing sexual photos and videos of themselves have surged globally in the past year, a cruel phenomenon known as “sadistic online exploitation”, child safety experts and law enforcement officials warn.
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"Ibiza Final Boss" Jack Kay earns £2m after viral nightclub fame
A Geordie construction worker who went viral as the ‘Ibiza Final Boss’ has garnered a large fortune in just a year.
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Former AfD member Noah Krieger accused of staging fake combat image for social media
With his clean, desert-tan tactical plate carrier – entirely free of the mud and concrete dust that characterise the gear of actual soldiers occupying the ruins of Avdiivka – the appearance of Chechen-born influencer Noah Krieger might pass all but the curious eye.
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Prisoners exposed showing luxury prison cells on social media with TVs, consoles and contraband phones
Prisoners are flaunting cells on social media which look more like student digs than a jail – complete with TVs, games consoles and cupboards crammed with food.
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Teen awarded £10,000 after woman stole her identity to catfish thousands online
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.
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Ofcom launches investigation into TikTok’s child safety checks
Ofcom has launched an investigation into the social media platform TikTok over harmful content concerns.
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Holiday park hit by abuse after family wrongly identified as asylum seekers
A family-run holiday park has found itself the target of online abuse and threatening phone calls after false information was circulated online suggesting they had ’taken government money to house migrants’.
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Man arrested over death threat to Nigel Farage on social media
A man in his 20s has been arrested after allegedly sending Reform UK leader Nigel Farage a death threat on social media.
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