Technology
Australia’s under-16 social media ban reaches the High Court, with Reddit among the challengers
Ten platforms must keep under-16s out or face fines of up to A$99m. Since the ban began last December, no company has been fined.
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Technology
A Yorkshire village has had queues outside its shops every weekend for six weeks, and nobody planned it
A shop worker of nearly twenty years describes the change. The visitors are not coming for the museum; they are coming for the shopfront.
World
Police Scotland has joined an international hunt for “The Com” — online groups that coerce children into harming themselves
One arrest in Scotland so far, a handful of convictions in England. A suicide prevention charity calls these groups the gravest risk to…
Bangladesh
TikTok deleted 14.79 million videos uploaded from Bangladesh in three months — and put 205,001 of them back
About 0.9% of everything uploaded here, against a global rate of 0.5%. Automated systems caught 99.8% of it before a single user complained.
World
Ofcom has named four ways to prove you are over 16 — and refused to make any of them compulsory
The regulator says being prescriptive is what failed elsewhere. It also concedes that some children will get round the checks whatever…
World
“Maxxing” is Dictionary.com’s word of the year, and “data centre” was on the shortlist it beat
A suffix that attaches to anything, chosen by a dictionary measuring social media. The runners-up say more about 2026 than the winner does.
Health
“Ferritin face” has millions of views, and doctors say you cannot read iron levels off a photograph
The trend is wrong about the method and right that iron deficiency is under-diagnosed. Separating those two is the whole job, because…
World
Gabon has switched social media back on after eight months, in a country where blackouts were the old government’s habit
Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram are reachable again for 2.5 million people. The eight months in between are a short lesson in what…
World
She is 96, has 15 million followers, and pays a $12,000 monthly nursing home bill with brand deals
A cohort of women in their seventies, eighties and nineties have turned late-life social media into a business. The interesting part is why…
Technology
He is 22, he cuts other people's videos into clips, and he says it pays him £120,000 a year. Almost nobody else makes anything
Eknoor Singh, 22, says he makes at least £10,000 a month cutting clients' videos into vertical clips, at up to $3 per 1,000 views. A…
Technology
4,000 Bradford teenagers are cutting their social media use for six weeks, and the result will shape a national ban
The IRL trial gives some students an app that limits social media and leaves others unrestricted, then compares anxiety, sleep, body image…
World
Fans are training their algorithms to hide their favourite artists so a concert can still surprise them
Films get spoiler warnings; tours do not. One fan spends weeks tapping “not interested” on videos of artists she loves. Another says she…