She likes beer and sports and hanging with the guys. She might flirt with someone’s boyfriend and she definitely wore Converses to her prom. She’s simply not like other girls. She’s what’s known as a Pick-Me, and the internet loves to hate her.
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TikTok is feeding false and misleading content about the war in Ukraine to users within 40 minutes of their signing up to the app, regardless of whether they run any searches on the platform, an investigation by NewsGuard has found.
A new TikTok account can be shown falsehoods about the Ukraine war within minutes of signing up to the app, according to an investigation by anti-misinformation outlet NewsGuard.
TikTok was ‘just a dancing app’. Then the Ukraine war started
The government is to introduce its long-awaited Online Safety Bill in Parliament on Thursday.
The bill is intended to tackle a wide range of harmful online content, such as cyber-bullying, pornography and material promoting self-harm.
Social networks could be fined or blocked if they fail to remove harmful content, and their bosses could be imprisoned for a lack of compliance.
Labour said the bill's delays meant disinformation in the UK was growing.
There's also a useful guide by iNEQE here
Each International Women’s Day, photos of smiling women appear in a steady stream on social media alongside testimonials from brands eager to show their support for gender equality.
This week, however, the stream was disrupted by a Twitter account that spat back pay gap data of companies, schools and nonprofits.
Nearly two weeks after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the flow of false or misleading information about the war hasn't let up and now there are some outlandish theories being shared online.
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