3 h. ago AIMEE WALSH: 'Elon Musk's Grok exposes a dark new way women and girls are being abused online'

Digital abuse has a terrifying new weapon. Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, is being used to degrade and humiliate women and girls of all ages - and the law is failing to protect them.

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4 h. ago Clarkson's Farm star Harriet Cowan's brilliant response as trolls criticise her look

Harriet Cowan, who starred in the latest series of Clarkson's Farm, has been the target of online abuse this week as she defended her makeup and hair choices

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12 h. ago Moment catfish sicko who preyed on 350 kids from bedroom ‘tries to groom’ cops before tattoo unmasked ‘UK’s worst paedo’

A RANDOM notification on Snapchat from Chloe Norris, 16, saying she had added him to her friends, led a 15-year-old boy to casually tap ‘Accept’. That simple action in 2018 lead to years of traumatic sexual abuse and blackmail online that was to make his life hell. “She sent a picture of herself and asked...

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27 h. ago Cops probe online abuse after MP visits Scots mosque following 'meat cleaver incident'

Labour MP Melanie Ward faced racist and threatening online comments after visiting Kirkcaldy Islamic Centre following a Boxing Day disturbance.

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28 h. ago People who create vile 'weapons of abuse' online face new law

People who create or try to create non-consensual intimate images will be committing a crime from this week amid an explosion of sexualised deepfakes on Elon Musk's X

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6 d. ago ‘It was overwhelming’: Katie Leung on Harry Potter, sudden fame, insecurity – and starring in Bridgerton

As a teenager, the actor landed her first ever job in the blockbuster film series. The experience was fun – but also led to horrendous online abuse. Now she’s back, playing a tough and surprising matriarch in the Regency smash hitSome actors might have been a little put out to audition for the role of the beautiful young romantic lead, and instead be cast as her mother, but not Katie Leung. “Absolutely not,” she says with a laugh. “I look young for my age – as most people in the west think Asians do – but I felt really seen to finally get to play the role of a mother.” She is a mother, she points out, and anyway, the role of Lady Araminta Gun, the steely aristo who is about to rock the new series of Netflix’s Regency behemoth Bridgerton, is so delicious, who could be insulted?Araminta, widowed, has seen off two husbands, and now she’s trying to marry off her two teenage daughters, ideally to a Bridgerton, while keeping her stepdaughter, Sophie, in her place – as a Cinderella-style s...

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1 week ago Luke Littler's warning to new girlfriend as she hangs out with celebrities

Luke Littler and his girlfriend Faith Millar have faced online abuse since going public with their relationship, with the darts star offering supportive advice to help her cope with trolls

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1 week ago I got a 32D boob job after winning £30k on the Traitors – I’ve had a forehead reduction too, says Meryl Williams

COWERING inside the train toilet, Traitors winner Meryl Williams held her breath as a group of teens hurled abuse outside. Three years after scooping £33,683 as one of three victorious contestants on series one of the hit BBC show, Meryl is still being targeted by bullies. And the harassment has taken such a heavy toll,...

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1 week ago Morton chairman John Laird quits as Cappielow chief slams online abuse directed at him and his family

The Morton chief had been involved with the Greenock club for more than 40 years

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2 w. ago Stephen Bunting slams abuse of his young son Toby and 'negative comments' from trolls

Stephen Bunting condemned online abuse directed at his 13-year-old son after losing to James Hurrell in the third round of the PDC World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace

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2 w. ago Stephen Bunting reveals son targeted by online trolls during World Darts Championship

Bunting has spoken candidly about his own struggles with online abuse

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2 w. ago ‘That video saved our lives’: how women are defying the Taliban’s brutal crackdown on protest

The activist Zarmina Paryani speaks from exile in Germany about how Afghanistan has tried to silence the voices of women and girls since the 2021 takeoverIt was nearly dark on 19 January 2022 when the knocking began. At first soft, then insistent, the sound echoed through the flat in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Zarmina Paryani and her sisters froze. They had known this day was coming.“We always knew the risks of protesting and we were prepared to die on the streets,” the 26-year-old activist told the Guardian. “But I never imagined they would come for us like that – in the middle of the night, breaking into our home.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Ryanair fined €256m over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by online travel agencies

Italy’s competition authority says Irish airline implemented technical obstacles to force sales through its own websiteBusiness live – latest updatesRyanair has been fined €256m (£223m) by Italy’s competition authority for abusing its dominant market position to limit sales of tickets by online travel agents.The authority said Europe’s largest airline had “implemented an abusive strategy to hinder travel agencies” via an “elaborate strategy” of technical obstacles for agents and passengers to make it difficult for online travel agents to sell Ryanair tickets and instead force sales through its own website. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Man, 61, who drugged, raped & shared vile vids of wife with pervs jailed for 8 years in ‘Germany’s Gisele Pelicot’ case

A DEPRAVED German caretaker has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for repeatedly drugging and raping his wife for several years and sharing footage of the vile abuse online. Fernando P, whose identity is protected under German privacy laws, has been convicted of carrying out the appalling assaults between 2018 and 2024. The 61-year-old...

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3 w. ago AI deepfakes and armchair sleuths: The families of missing people being trolled online

Around 430,000 people are affected by a child going missing each year. Already living through a nightmare, several of them will also have to face online harassment and abuse

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3 w. ago Misogynistic abuse is a ‘national emergency’ – and it starts online

Editorial: Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips is to be applauded for treating the problem of violence against women and girls with the same seriousness and techniques used to foil terrorism – but still more can be done to control the tech giants who make money out of pushing hatred

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4 w. ago Charity Santa’s sleigh run hit by online abuse from ‘shameful, entitled parents’

The Rotary Club run Santa runs have seen volunteers endure 'rude or inappropriate comments about their efforts'

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