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Instagram actively helping spread of self-harm among teenagers, study finds
Meta is actively helping self-harm content to flourish on Instagram by failing to remove explicit images and encouraging those engaging with such content to befriend one another, according to a damning new study that found its moderation “extremely inadequate”.
Danish researchers created a private self-harm network on the social media …
‘Photographs did not do it justice’: King Louis XV’s magnificent rhino is star of new London exhibition
King Louis XV’s rhinoceros was the star of the court of Versailles. Fed on a diet of bread, its tough hide was regularly massaged with oil. But it proved not an easy pet to keep and unfortunately killed two people who entered its enclosure.
Now, the magnificent beast, since …
Mourners honour ‘political genius’ Alex Salmond at Edinburgh service
Kandoo Kid kicks on while Sir Gino vaults into Champion Hurdle picture
Paul Nicholls weighed out at 10st 5lb before the first of his two wins as a rider in what was known as the Hennessy Gold Cup, back in 1986. It was a chunkier version of him that greeted Kandoo Kid, his fourth winner as a trainer, after the race that …
On my radar: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett’s cultural highlights
Born in London in 1987, the actor Nathan Stewart-Jarrett studied at the Brit school and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. After early stage roles including
The History Boys
at the National Theatre, he was cast in E4’sMisfits
and Channel 4’sUtopia
. He starred in the …Revealed: UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’ with 10% of donations from dubious sources
Loopholes in the law are allowing “dark money” to infiltrate UK politics, with almost £1 in every £10 donated to parties and politicians coming from unknown or dubious sources, analysis reveals.
Cash from companies that have never turned a profit, from unincorporated associations that do not have to declare their …
‘I will never give up’: mother seeks new clues about British son missing in Sardinia
The anguished mother of a British man who
vanished in Sardinia this summer
has urged a woman from Jersey, who he was with in the days before he disappeared, to come forward and assist with the police investigation.Michael Frison, 25, from Chard in Somerset, went missing …
AI expert Marietje Schaake: ‘The way we think about technology is shaped by the tech companies themselves’
Marietje Schaake is a former Dutch member of the European parliament. She is now the international policy director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center and international policy fellow at Stanford’s
Institute for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence
. Her new book is entitledThe Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy …
Ex-Harrods director says Mohamed Al Fayed used cash bribes to ‘control’ staff
A former Harrods director has claimed he was handed envelopes of cash by Mohamed Al Fayed as part of the billionaire’s plan to control and manipulate senior management and cover up alleged incidents of sexual abuse.
Jon Brilliant, who worked in Fayed’s private office for 18 months, claimed his former …
Ding Liren lets Gukesh D off hook in Game 5 draw as world title match remains deadlocked
Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju survived a scare before escaping with an improbably stress-free draw on Saturday in the fifth game of his world championship match with Ding Liren that left the $2.5m showdown deadlocked at 2½-2½.
After Ding opted for another French Defense (1 e4 e6), which he’d played in …