Sir Keir Starmer is set to ban under-16s from 10 major social media platforms, including X, but not Bluesky, the Left-wing app.
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Government wants to back parents against tech companies though some feel the process has been rushed
Keir Starmer is expected to announce sweeping “Australia-plus” restrictions on under-16s accessing harmful social media apps, a move the government has framed as taking the side of parents against the big technology companies.
A consultation on online safety closed on 26 May, giving ministers just weeks to come up with policies after receiving more than 116,000 responses. Industry sources and child safety advocates have described the process as “rushed” and driven by a political timeline. It is not clear when the ban could come into force.
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Sources say hardline measures will also prevent young users from being able to talk to strangers on gaming apps
Keir Starmer is to ban under-16s from major social media apps such as TikTok, Instagram and X in sweeping restrictions described as “Australia plus”, the Guardian understands.
In a major policy shift far tougher than previously briefed, the prime minister will announce that teenagers will be banned from all the main social platforms. Online products that are not covered by the ban – such as gaming apps – will face new restrictions such as having the option to chat to strangers removed.
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Exclusive: Cancer charity says dispelling falsehoods gleaned from social media is now routine task for clinicians
Social media misinformation about the use of dietary supplements such as turmeric, St John’s wort and magnesium is now so common that dispelling online claims has become a routine part of NHS clinicians work.
Two out of five frontline health workers say they encounter patients who raise inaccurate or misleading information about supplements at least once a week.
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Site takes no action over hate posts against UK politicians including Kemi Badenock, Shabana Mahmood and Zia Yusuf
X has refused to take down dozens of social media posts reported as “hate, abuse or harassment” in which prominent UK politicians, including Kemi Badenoch, have been racially abused.
In May, researchers from the social inclusion thinktank British Future reported 30 posts from this year in which the Conservative party leader was called the N-word. In each case the researchers used the platform’s “hate, abuse or harassment” reporting option. X refused to act in the majority of cases, despite repeated requests.
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Exclusive: Former minister calls for urgent action against companies such as X that allow incitement to violence
Wes Streeting has called for Keir Starmer to take urgent action against X and other online platforms that have helped whip up social tensions, suggesting they should be forced to contribute to rebuilding costs after the riots in Belfast.
The intervention by the former health secretary, who is seen as a likely challenger to Keir Starmer in any leadership contest, comes after Downing Street said any response would be left to Ofcom, the media regulator, meaning no action is likely for at least two months.
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New safety measures had little effect so far, study finds, with Starmer expected to announce under-16s ban
Nearly half of girls and a third of all teenagers saw suicide, self-harm and eating disorder content on social media in a week, a study shows.
The Molly Rose Foundation (MRF) research found that 47% of girls aged 13 to 17 encountered high-risk content during a seven-day period.
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Gazans are preparing for public protests against Hamas on June 26th in what is being touted as a grassroots "revolution" against the terror group.
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Bill Ritter, anchor on WABC since 2001, said he’s stepping down but will continue to report on the disease
A longtime New York City television news anchor has announced his sudden retirement from the airwaves after revealing that he has the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
Bill Ritter, a veteran of ABC New York station WABC, has presented the main evening news in New York since 2001 and become a familiar face to millions of its residents.
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Excoriating article under Caroline Dinenage’s name remains on ConservativeHome website
It was a crisis that toppled a BBC director general and his head of news. After contentious accusations of bias by a former external adviser, Michael Prescott, both Tim Davie and Deborah Turness quit the corporation.
At the height of the media storm that ensued last November, the corporation was struck by another blow. A key figure in scrutinising the BBC – the chair of the Commons culture, media and sport committee – delivered an equally damning verdict.
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Just who does Financial Times journalist Pilita Clark think she is, encouraging parents to ensure their children are sufficiently alarmed about the climate, asks Tilak Doshi. How far the pink paper has fallen.
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British journalist becomes one of most prominent appointments made by embattled editor-in-chief Bari Weiss
CBS News has hired the prominent British broadcaster Trevor Phillips, as its senior global affairs correspondent, in a significant hire for embattled top editor Bari Weiss.
The network said that reporting by Phillips, who currently presents the flagship Sunday political show on the UK’s Sky News channel, would appear “on all CBS News programs and platforms”.
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Ospite di Battitori liberi, su Radio Cusano, Peter Gomez, direttore de ilfattoquotidiano.it e di Fq Millennium, scatta una fotografia nitida, e per certi versi inquietante, dello stato della stampa in Italia: un’analisi che non riguarda solo i bilanci o le copie vendute, ma tocca le fondamenta stesse del pluralismo e della libertà di critica.
Alla constatazione amara del conduttore Savino Balzano, che esprime stupore nel vedere testate e giornalisti che, dopo la richiesta milionaria di Cipriani e Minetti, fanno quasi il tifo perché qualcuno riesca a far chiudere Il Fatto, Gomez individua due ragioni fondamentali: “Mentre il panorama editoriale arranca, ad aprile il nostro giornale ha registrato un aumento del 19% delle copie, risultando l’unica testata in crescita insieme a Il Giornale di Tommaso Cerno (+1,1%). Il secondo motivo di questo astio sta nel fatto che, per vari motivi, i quotidiani dipendono tutti più o meno dalla politica ormai o dalle istituzioni. Poi probabilmente non saremo simpatici a tutti, però io credo che queste siano le due ragioni principali”.
Secondo il direttore, il segreto di questo successo è banale quanto rivoluzionario: “Il nostro giornale ha aumentato le copie non solo in virtù delle sue prese di posizioni diverse rispetto alla gran parte della stampa sulla Palestina e sulla guerra tra Russia e Ucraina, ma soprattutto in virtù dell’unico segreto per vendere i giornali: dire alle persone qualcosa che non sanno. Qualcosa che qualcuno non vuole che si sappia“. Una missione che oggi sembra diventata un’anomalia in un mercato dove i quotidiani appaiono “generalmente tutti uguali”.
Gomez ricorda che l’autonomia editoriale del Fatto Quotidiano è resa possibile da un modello economico che, con orgoglio, rifiuta il cordone ombelicale dello Stato: nonostante un bilancio complesso dovuto all’incremento dei costi del personale, la società ha scelto di tutelare ogni singolo dipendente. “Al contrario di gran parte dei giornali – sottolinea Gomez – abbiamo deciso di non dichiarare lo stato di crisi, quindi di non mandare via nessuno e di non ridurre l’orario di lavoro”. In un momento di incertezza, la testata aveva inizialmente inoltrato la richiesta per accedere al contributo di 10 centesimi a copia previsto per legge, ma una volta ottenuta l’approvazione ufficiale, è arrivato il rifiuto: “Quando da Palazzo Chigi ci hanno comunicato che eravamo stati ammessi, abbiamo detto di no. È una questione di coerenza“.
Una scelta che Gomez rivendica con forza, lanciando una frecciata ai sedicenti campioni del libero mercato che sopravvivono solo grazie ai sussidi: “In questo Paese, molti di quelli che predicano il neoliberismo e sostengono che il costo del lavoro sia troppo alto vivono di fondi pubblici, fondazioni o cooperative. Sono tutti liberali alle vongole. Noi siamo liberali, ma certamente non siamo alle vongole“.
Tuttavia, il prezzo del dissenso in Italia si paga con la moneta della delegittimazione. A Balzano che ricorda con sarcasmo le inchieste “risibili” volte a dimostrare un fantomatico finanziamento putiniano dietro le posizioni del giornale sulla guerra in Ucraina, Gomez ribadisce che il clima è diventato tossico: “Quello che non si accetta più è che ci sia gente che ha opinioni diverse semplicemente perché la pensa così. Evidentemente c’è tanta di quella gente che è pagata in qualche modo dall’altra parte, che pare impossibile che questo avvenga”.
Il direttore del Fatto online cita gli attacchi scomposti alla testata sul racconto dei massacri a Gaza. Pur ribadendo il diritto di Israele a reagire dopo l’orrore del 7 ottobre, Gomez ha denunciato il superamento di ogni limite umanitario: “Già dopo un mese ci siamo resi conto che quella reazione era spropositata: non era più giustizia, era vendetta“. Per questa analisi, il direttore è stato marchiato con l’infamia di essere “filo-Hamas”, un esempio plastico di una strategia volta a silenziare il dibattito: “Si viene associati a terroristi o dittatori solo perché si hanno opinioni diverse basate su analisi dei fatti differenti. Ma questa non è democrazia, perché la democrazia vive di confronto”
In ultima analisi, Gomez punta il dito contro la crisi d’identità della professione, stigmatizzando i troppi colleghi che passano con disinvoltura dal giornalismo ai ruoli di portavoce politico: “Noi giornalisti, un po’ come si dice dei magistrati, non dobbiamo essere solo indipendenti. Dobbiamo anche apparire tali”. La chiusura è affidata a un monito di Paul Valéry, che fotografa perfettamente la barbarie del dibattito pubblico attuale: “Quando non puoi attaccare il ragionamento, attacchi il ragionatore“.
L'articolo Peter Gomez: “Il Fatto cresce del 19% perché diciamo ai lettori quello che qualcuno non vuole che si sappia” proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.
By Joe LAURIA
Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su
That is the most important question today that we strive everyday to answer.
If you understand who the aggressor is, you are on your way to understanding the mad and perilous times we live in.
Once you get that, what you’ve been taught all your life starts to lose its hold on you.
Establishment education and media try to confuse you. Independent media like Consortium News try to clarify.
Establishment education and media portray the aggressor as the defender, and the victim as the threat. Consortium News endeavors to show you the “threat” is really an obstacle. An obstacle to aggression and occupation. An obstacle to expansion. Locally and globally.
Few would agree with aggression, paid for with your taxes in a so-called democracy. So obstacles to aggression become threats that you’re supposed to be afraid of. Offensive action is taken as “defense” to protect you from the “threat.”
There’s nothing new in this. The Romans dressed up their imperial aggression as self-defense against fake threats. Rome provoked tribes, first in Italy and then Gaul and Germania, into forming alliances to protect the tribes’ sovereignty, and then Rome presented these alliances as “threats” that had to be destroyed, justifying war against them.
Rome would also provoke an adversary into invading or launching an attack to obtain the casus belli needed to start a pre-planned war. For instance, Roman ally Masinissa of Numidia repeatedly raided Carthage to provoke it into finally responding militarily in violation of a treaty it had with Rome. The empire used this as a pretext for total destruction and annexation — even though Carthage, an obstacle to Roman expansion, posed no realistic, existential threat.
In the earlier U.S. imperium, Mark Twain explained it this way:
“The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”
Today the obstacles to the aggressors’ expansion and occupation in the Middle East are Iran plus the legal, armed resistance to Greater Israel: Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Shia militia in Iraq. They are presented as “threats”rather than defenders of their dignity, sovereignty and land.
In Asia the “threat” is China. Beijing protecting its sovereignty in its own region is somehow a threat to U.S. warships near China’s waters and to Taiwan, which the U.S. agrees is part of China.
In Europe years of NATO expansion, refusal to negotiate a mutual security treaty, rehabilitation of fascism, a coup, and civil war in Ukraine against ethnic Russian coup-resistors provoked Russia to intervene, much as the Romans provoked Carthage. Getting Russia to invade Ukraine allows the portrayal of Moscow as the aggressor and a “threat” to all of Europe and not as an obstacle to the U.S. and Wall Street return to their 1990s dominance of Russia. (Now there is constant talk of direct NATO war with Russia. The fear is another provocation to get Russia to start it.)
All of these obstacles to U.S. global hegemony are presented to you as existential threats that only the mighty United States, NATO and Israel can protect you from. There’s nothing in it for them, of course, except saving your life, we’re expected to believe. Except you don’t have to believe it. You have alternative media like Consortium News to expose the deceptions on a daily basis.
That’s why pro-establishment social media companies and so-called anti-disinformation services have tried to hurt us. And that’s why we need your help.
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