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• Social media giants could be forced to boost BBC content – four things to know

  22-06-2026 07:00 via inews.co.uk
  
  The Government is reportedly considering forcing social media giants to push BBC content towards users.The proposals would reportedly require platforms like YouTube, Facebook and TikTok to give greater prominence to the BBC and other public service broadcasters in feeds, search results and algorithms.Here’s what the proposals might do and why the plan is already drawing criticism.Priority to BBC, ITV and Channel 4Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) sources told The Telegraph the
  
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• Children hired as ‘dispensable’ weapons by hostile states

  22-06-2026 07:00 via inews.co.uk
  
  Children are being used as “dispensable” weapons by organised criminals and hostile states paying for crimes including murder and arson, international law enforcement leaders have warned.In Britain, the head of the National Crime Agency (NCA) said that “younger and younger” children were being investigated as the perpetrators of serious crimes and that a 15-year-old boy had recently been arrested on suspicion of trying to import a gun.Several of the suspects arrested over
  
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