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June starts cool – will it warm up anytime soon?
The first 10 days of June have been cooler than average for most of us. Are there any signs of summer-like warmth?
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Euro 2024: UK police receive nearly 600 referrals of online abuse towards England players; 26 now being investigated
The UK Football Policing Unit (UKFPU) has received 571 referrals of online abuse towards England players. The majority of those are racist posts.
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‘Sunak got D-day early exit decision wrong but fessed up straight away’ – David Cameron
Craig Williams has apologised and is being investigated by the Gambling Commission. Our Senior Political Correspondent Paul McNamara spoke to the Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron about this earlier.
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Exclusive: Hundreds of British celebrities victims of deepfake porn
Hundreds of female British actors, TV stars, musicians, YouTubers and journalists are victims of deepfake pornography, a Channel 4 News investigation being shown tonight has found. At least 250 British celebrities appear in the deepfake videos, in which their faces are superimposed onto pornography using Artificial Intelligence. Channel 4 News is not naming those affected.…
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Israel-Hamas conflict: How deliberate disinformation is spreading across social
War and propaganda have always gone hand in hand, but in the age of social media, harmful misinformation has so many more ways to proliferate, and can get around the world faster than ever. Today the EU urged the bosses of Twitter, Facebook and other platforms to curb the spread of fake news, warning that…
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‘They don’t want the truth to come out’: Matthew Fowler on the Covid-19 Inquiry – Covid Untold Stories
When Matthew Fowler set up the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign, it started as a Facebook support group of 6 people. But by March 2021, it had evolved into a registered organisation with a small team.
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Online Safety Bill debate: Could it lead to ‘unprecedented paradigm-shifting surveillance’?
Big tech is being taken to task by lawmakers across the world.
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Meta settles data breach case linked to Cambridge Analytica scandal for £600m
Facebook owners Meta have agreed a £600 million settlement in a US case, over a data breach linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Alaa Abd El-Fattah: Egypt pro-democracy activist on hunger strike in jail
The British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd El-Fattah was sentenced for a post he made on Facebook, and has spent most of the last decade in prison.
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Farewell to departing editor Ben de Pear
We don’t often spend time recognising the off-screen team,- who are really the ones who make this programme what it is. So we wanted to take a moment to mention our departing editor Ben de Pear, who has led the programme for the last decade.
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Former officer says he was racially abused by ‘institutionally racist’ Leicestershire police
A former Leicestershire Police officer says he was subjected to racist abuse when colleagues called him “Blackie Chan”, and that on several occasions a banana was left by his locker.
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FactCheck: Some Conservatives did defend fans who booed England
A number of Conservative MPs, including several ministers, did defend fans who booed England players for “taking the knee” before their Euro 2020 matches.
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FactCheck: Video which purports to show Israeli policeman strangling Palestinian boy is false
The video actually shows Swedish security guards detaining a nine-year-old boy in Malmo in 2015.
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Sports bodies boycott social media over online abuse
Sports fans love social media. But this weekend many of the places they might usually be getting the latest clips and news from will be silent.
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UN Human Rights Council calls for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release
The UN’s top human rights body has called on Myanmar’s military government to release the elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi
