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Young People News

25 March 2025

The charge follows the release of the image on social media platform X, with the 46-year-old star first accused of re-posting the image on his X account in April 2024.

According to the Metropolitan Police, Fox has now been charged under Section 66A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.

The incident saw Fox accused of sharing the compromising photo of TV star Narinder Kaur on social media.

The law makes it a crime to intentionally share sexual images of someone without their consent, with the intention of causing "alarm, distress, humiliation, or for sexual gratification".

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23 January 2025

Ofcom has today fined video sharing platform, MintStars Ltd, £7,000 for failing to adequately protect children from accessing online pornography.

Under existing laws which pre-date the Online Safety Act, UK-established video-sharing platforms (VSPs) are required to have measures in place to protect under-18s from videos containing restricted material, including pornography.

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04 January 2025

After demanding the release of Tommy Robinson from prison, the Tesla billionaire has posted a series of messages accusing Sir Keir Starmer of failing to prosecute gangs that systematically groomed and raped young girls, and calling for safeguarding minister Jess Phillips to be jailed.

He also suggested safeguarding minister Jess Phillips “deserves to be in prison” after she rejected a request for the Home Office to order a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham.

The decision was criticised by several senior Tories, despite the previous Conservative government turning down a similar request in 2022.

Musk accused Phillips of being a “rape genocide apologist” on Friday (3/1)

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10 December 2024

“I get a lot of hate”. The words of content creator Winta Zesu, who last year made $150,000 (£117,000) from posting on social media.

What separates Winta from other influencers? The people commenting on her posts and driving traffic to her videos are often doing so out of anger.

“Every single video of mine that has gained millions of views is because of hate comments,” the 24-year-old explains.

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09 December 2024

'When I was a teenager in 2013, these filters were available in their early forms on Instagram and Snapchat, since TikTok wasn’t yet invented. Even though the filters I used back then were relatively crude compared to today’s offerings, they still consumed my life – and my self-perception'

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07 December 2024

“Whenever there’s a gap in medicine, predators take advantage,” said Dr Gunter.
There is no evidence that highly restricted calorie diets have any positive effect, and the keto diet may make symptoms worse. Birth control pills do not cause PCOS and in fact help many women, though they don’t work for everyone. There is no known root cause for PCOS and there is no cure.

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