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BBC presenter Ashley Cain called women "slags", "sluts" and "bitches"
A BBC presenter lauded by the corporation for his appeal to young male audiences has a history of making abusive and misogynistic remarks about women, whom he has variously called “slags”, “sluts”, “psychos” and “bitches”, the Guardian can reveal.
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Reform hopeful blames "Nigerian scammers" for vile racist posts on his Twitter
A wannabe Reform councillor standing in a key battleground despite initially failing vetting over racist posts claims he was a victim of Nigerian scammers.
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Nigel Farage slams Elon Musk’s X as ‘unpleasant and dangerous’ amid abuse row over Reform UK candidates
Social media platform X is becoming a very “unpleasant” and “dangerous” place, Nigel Farage has said in a swipe at former friend Elon Musk.
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Courtroom setbacks threaten Musk’s broader tech empire narrative
Elon Musk has suffered the worst streak of courtroom losses in a career marked by legal battles.
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Fake missile strikes and drone attacks flood feeds as minister sounds alarm over disinformation
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has said she is ’deeply concerned’ about misinformation online amid a surge in distorted and manipulated content on social media
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Musk accused of tanking Twitter stock before buyout Twitter as jury delivers damaging verdict
Elon Musk has been found to have misled investors by ’deliberately driving down’ Twitter’s stock price ahead of his $44 billion acquisition deal, a jury has found.
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Hackers seize control of Syrian government profiles during regional escalation
Several official Syrian government accounts on the social media platform X were briefly compromised, the country’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology announced on Tuesday, sparking concerns about the security of state digital infrastructure during a period of heightened regional tensions.
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Nearly 40 prospective jurors removed from Musk Twitter takeover trial over bias concerns
Dozens of jurors have been dismissed from tech billionaire Elon’s Musk’s civil trial regarding his actions during his takeover of Twitter, now known as X, after his own lawyer admitted so many Americans "hate him."
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Elon Musk’s x fined €120m by EU for breach of new Digital Services Act
Ruling likely to put European Commission on a collision course with billionaire, and possibly Donald Trump.
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Major websites go down as Cloudflare outage disrupts X, PayPal and ChatGPT
Significant portions of the web are down for thousands of users, with social media platforms like X, formerly known as Twitter, not loading.
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Larry Ellison overtakes Elon Musk as world’s richest person
The US tech billionaire Larry Ellison has surpassed Elon Musk as the world’s richest person after shares in Oracle, the business he co-founded, soared in early trading on Wednesday.
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Met Police arrest father Ted writer for ‘inciting violence’ on X
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has described being arrested after landing at Heathrow Airport due to a series of Twitter posts.
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Oxford versus Portsmouth halted due to medical emergency as broadcast is removed from TV
Oxford United and Portsmouth had completed only 15 minutes of their Championship game on Saturday when a medical emergency occurred in the stands, prompting both teams to leave the field while staff addressed the situation.
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Kanye West’s website taken offline after Yeezy sells offensive t-shirts
Kanye West’s Yeezy website has been shut down after some vile t-shirts including black swastikas, with Shopify confirming they had taken down the shop as it ’violated’ their rules.
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Elon Musk renames X to Harry Bolz following $100 billion OpenAI bid
Elon Musk has changed his name on X to ‘Harry Bōlz’, causing uproar in the Crypto world.
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Actor and former boxer P.H. Moriarty, known for his roles in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Jaws, dies at 86
Tributes have flooded in for British actor P.H. Moriarty who has died at the age of 86.
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Musk’s aides lock Office of Personnel Management employees out of computer systems
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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Footballer’s eye ’pops out’ during game after blowing nose, then jogs off casually
Footage of the injury went viral and stunned footie fans.
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US sues Musk for not disclosing Twitter stock holdings, leading to lower acquisition cost
Elon Musk is being sued for failing to disclose his purchase of Twitter stocks before buying the company in 2022, which ‘allowed him to underpay’ by at least $150m (£123m).
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X changes porn policy to opt-in system that blocks under-18 users
The social media network’s new rules, announced on Monday, come after regulator pressure around the world to better protect children from inappropriate content
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Advertisements promoting the deadly nitazene drug have been found on X and SoundCloud platforms
Thousands of posts offering deadly drugs known as nitazenes have been found on X and the music platform SoundCloud by a BBC investigation.
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Elon Musk sued for £100.9M in staggering number of lawsuits by ex-Twitter execs
Twitter’s former CEO and other senior executives have sued Elon Musk and X Corp. for allegedly making up a fake cause to fire them when he acquired the platform
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Advice on how to starve yourself still on social media - despite Tory promises
When the Mirror searched social media platforms including X and Tumblr to mark Eating Disorder Awareness Week we found worrying pro-anorexia and bulimia posts within seconds
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Inside UK's worst Willy Wonka Experience as internet erupts over event
The so-called "immersive experience" left parents so enraged that Glasgow Police were forced to rush to the event to break up angry crowds of visitors
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Chef who called customer 'pathetic' over cancellation fee sent 'death threats'
Boston restaurant TABLE has gone quiet on social media after the owner received "death threats" when a heated dispute with a customer about a cancellation fee went viral
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