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• Trump’s sadistic tiger videos are a hideous window into his mind

  14-10-2026 13:55 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  In rooms across the world, government ministers and parliamentarians hold serious discussions about how to challenge the threats posed by big tech – particularly AI and social media. These risks range from tackling misinformation and polarisation, to managing the economic challenges of AI job losses, to assessing whether AI poses an existential threat to humanity. Usually, however, such discussions have not centred on what to do when the problem on social
  
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• The truth about men and WhatsApp – and why we turn a deaf ear to sexist banter

  14-10-2026 07:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  Until my thirties, I belonged to a WhatsApp group that included several old friends from school. It wasn’t a political group, but one member occasionally posted political material. Over time, his contributions became aggressively right-wing, eventually running to far-right memes about asylum seekers and Muslims, interspersed with sexist “banter” about women. Typically, these posts would be met with stony silence. Tumbleweed blew past and a chorus of metaphorical crickets r
  
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