3 d. ago Clickbait review – gripping drama about the human cost of moderating the internet

A social media content moderator becomes obsessed with a violent video in this restrained, unsettling workplace thriller starring Lili ReinhartHere is a workplace drama, of sorts. Like many people, Daisy (Lili Reinhart) works a desk job using a computer. Unlike most people, fainting at work is a rite of passage; she moderates videos on social media that have been reported for violating the terms of service. That means watching everything from horrible porn to horrible politics to horrible accidents and everything in between, a non-stop diet of videos with titles such as “fetus in blender” or “strangulation but she doesn’t die”.Her boss takes her to task for deleting a graphic video showing a suicide, which supposedly has news value and should have been left up. But the tipping point for Daisy is a really nasty video titled “nailed it”, which shows violence and cruelty that she believes is real and non-consensual. So begins a low-key quest to track down the perpetrator, though she is...

Events

4 d. ago Schoolboy left suicidal after being shown video of man taking his own life in playground at just 12 years old

Frazer McKenna, now 18, appeared on the ITV show to bravely talk to Susanna Reid, 55, and Ed Balls, 58, about how the clip resulted in him suffering with PTSD.

Culture

2 w. ago Tributes to schoolboy, 14, killed in tractor crash that left another teenager seriously injured

Aaron Anderson, 14, from Consett, suffered life-threatening injuries when a John Deere Gator overturned at a farm off the B6310 near Burnopfield on December 21.

Events

2 w. ago Tributes to 'always smiling' schoolboy, 14, who was tragically killed in tractor crash that left another teenager seriously injured

Aaron Anderson, 14, from Consett, suffered life-threatening injuries when a John Deere Gator overturned at a farm off the B6310 near Burnopfield on December 21.

Events

3 w. ago Fake Jeffrey Epstein 'suicide video' sparks theories after appearing in file dump

A computer-generated fake video purporting to show Jeffrey Epstein in his cell briefly sparked online frenzy after mistakenly appearing in the DOJ's file dump before being removed

Events

3 w. ago Trump administration rushes to delete chilling video recreating Jeffrey Epstein's suicide

Within hours of the video's publication, sparking mass interest online, it emerged that the distressing footage was actually a recreation of Epstein's death inside his jail cell in 2019.

Politics