17 h. ago Madeleine McCann 'stalker' sent police '8 reasons' she was missing girl, trial hears

Julia Wandelt and Karen Spragg are on trial accused of stalking the McCann family, with Wandelt, 24, sending messages to Amelie via social media, claiming to be Madeleine

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18 h. ago The 'psychics' exploiting Gus Lamont's disappearance: 'Mediums' take to social media claiming to use their 'gifts' to help search for missing four

August 'Gus' Lamont vanished almost two weeks ago after playing in the yard of the remote Oak Park homestead in the harsh South Australian outback, nearly 200 miles north of Adelaide .

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19 h. ago BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’

Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said ex-PM’s son’s firm had won digital ID contractThe arrival of a generation of young producers “marinated in social media” led to a false claim about Euan Blair being broadcast on Have I Got News For You, the production chief behind the show has said.The first in a new series of the BBC show featured an incorrect claim that the company run by the son of the former prime minister Tony Blair had been given the contract to run the government’s new digital ID system. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago Barron Trump tipped for top job at TikTok after dad tells users they ‘owe’ him for saving platform

The president has previously claimed that users ‘owe’ Barron Trump for saving the social media platform in a video from the Oval Office

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4 d. ago Supreme Court declines to help out Laura Loomer in her doomed RICO social media lawsuit

Laura Loomer claimed that her ban from social media platforms did immense damage to her unsuccessful congressional campaigns in 2020 and 2022.

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6 d. ago Barrister is reported to Bar Council over video claiming Israeli government was behind Manchester synagogue attack

Practicing barrister Sham Uddin posted a video making the claims to his social media accounts just 24 hours after Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, targeted Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester on Thursday.

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7 d. ago Tesco shoppers 'running' for £35 F&F teddy fleece 'on trend' for autumn

The new Tesco fleece has gone viral on social media, with shoppers claiming they 'need' the 'gorgeous' style

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8 d. ago Taylor Swift fans in a frenzy as The Life of a Showgirl seemingly LEAKS hours before release

Swifties lit up social media overnight with posts claiming the tracks had surfaced on Discord and other platforms in low quality audio, but enough to get listeners buzzing.

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8 d. ago Taylor Swift fans panic as The Life of a Showgirl seemingly LEAKS hours before release

Swifties lit up social media overnight with posts claiming the tracks had surfaced on Discord and other platforms in low quality audio, but enough to get listeners buzzing.

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1 week ago Now Labour MP accuses Nigel Farage of wanting to send Welsh people 'back down the mines' as party hits the panic button over Reform UK threat

Claire Hughes, MP for Bangor Aberconwy, made the claim as she posted a video on social media urging voters not to back Reform at next year's Welsh Senedd elections.

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2 w. ago Georgia Toffolo incurs wrath of fans who say she's meant to be 'setting an example' after sharing 'concerning' car video

The TV personality, 30, left her followers furious with the 'nonsense' social media post as they claimed she was meant to be 'setting an example' after 'taking her eyes off the road'.

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2 w. ago Netanyahu’s son takes shot at UK & ‘recognises Falklands as part of Argentina’ after Starmer’s Palestine move

BENJAMIN Netanyahu's son has lashed out at Keir Starmer for welcoming a Palestinian State - by recognising the Falkland Islands as Argentinian in a baseless social media post. The kneejerk claims came just days after Sir Keir's appeasing announcement - and followed a fresh bid from Argentina to annex the British territory. Using the Argentinian...

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2 w. ago Ayrshire MSP hits out after social media 'misinformation' on rape gangs

Siobhian Brown has blasted 'misinformation' on social media following misleading claims about the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill.

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2 w. ago Police slam false claims they are investigating child for viewing social media post

West Midlands Police said the viral clips were ‘misleading’ and ‘heavily edited’

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2 w. ago Eerie final images of Jay Slater to feature on Channel 4 film in bid to clear up theories

The film will attempt to clear up theories surrounding the teen's mystery holiday death and put an end of social media claims.

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2 w. ago Police and council statement after reports of asylum seekers being moved into Salford hotel

Posts on social media claimed 'migrants' were being moved into the former hotel

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2 w. ago Officials say there are ‘entities’ lurking in Earth’s ‘deep water areas’

US politician Tim Burchett claimed in a social media video that the deep sea might be home to unknown life forms we still don't know about, and he isn't the first official to theorise about aliens

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3 w. ago FBI 'probing social media posts' which appeared to predict Charlie Kirk murder

Nearly a week on from the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a number of social media posts have surfaced claiming to indicate knowledge of the shooting before it happened

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3 w. ago Birth control: why are influencers turning away from the pill and towards natural contraceptive methods? | Antiviral

Claims on social media feeds are that synthetic hormones cause infertility and affect romantic choices. Experts say unintended pregnancies have reached ‘concerning levels’Read more in the Antiviral seriesIn the 1960s it was considered a watershed moment of liberation for women. Now, a new generation is being inundated with messages online that birth control is “evil” and “poison”. Across social media feeds, influencers are venting about hormonal contraception. Some are spreading false claims that taking synthetic hormones causes infertility, or can even be responsible for bad romantic decisions because you are “attracted to different men than you would be if you were off the pill”. Others emphasise known side-effects, such as weight gain and depression.Meanwhile, millions of TikToks promote the effectiveness of natural contraceptive methods, with self-described “hormone experts” claiming it is “not that hard to prevent pregnancy naturally” with fertility awareness methods “just as e...

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3 w. ago Cristian Romero ‘so angry’ in past but Spurs future is brighter under Frank

Captain insists club is pulling in the ‘same direction’ at last as Tottenham’s Champions League campaign kicks offThe way that Cristian Romero tells it, there was a kind of rage inside him, an overwhelming desire for Tottenham to be better that sometimes overtook him. The defender could not help himself, he needed to make his views known, but when all of the pieces were put together from last season and into the summer, it was difficult to see that he was planning on staying at the club.There was the repost of a social media message last September that claimed he was tired because Spurs had not flown him back on a private jet from Argentina duty. Note: reposts can be endorsements. There was the complaint in December that the club’s lack of spending meant they were falling behind Premier League rivals. “You have to realise that something is going wrong – hopefully they [the board] realise it,” he said. Continue reading...

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