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• Pinterest Launches 2 Powerful AI Marketing Tools.

  25-06-2026 14:28 via Immediate Future
  
  If you’re a small business owner, you probably know how challenging it can be to attract new customers online while juggling everything else that comes with running a business. That’s why Pinterest’s latest announcement is worth paying attention to. The platform has unveiled two new
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• The major school rule change which could help more teenagers into jobs

  25-10-2026 17:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  Smartphones should be locked away in sealed pouches or lockers in all schools to help prevent more teenagers joining the youth unemployment crisis, the Government’s work tsar has warned. This summer, Labour brought in a smartphone ban in English schools, which legally required headteachers to ensure their classrooms and playgrounds are phone-free environments. However, some experts have warned the current measures, which leave schools to decide how to enforce the guidance, are giving teacher
  
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• I used to think M&S was for middle-aged mums. Now, at 24, I’m obsessed

  21-10-2026 13:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  Gen Z is supposed to be skint. We’re priced out of houses, putting off having children and watching the cost of an ordinary food shop creep up every week. And yet there is one store my generation seems not only happy to spend money in, but is completely obsessed with: Marks & Spencer.What was once reserved for special occasion picky bits and underwear has won over me and my cash-strapped generation. I’m as surprised as anyone. Growing up, it was the sort of shop I was dragged int
  
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• I used to think M&S was for middle-aged mums. Now, at 24, I’m obsessed

  21-10-2026 13:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  Gen Z is supposed to be skint. We’re priced out of houses, putting off having children and watching the cost of an ordinary food shop creep up every week. And yet there is one store my generation seems not only happy to spend money in, but is completely obsessed with: Marks & Spencer.What was once reserved for special occasion picky bits and underwear has won over me and my cash-strapped generation. I’m as surprised as anyone. Growing up, it was the sort of shop I was dragged into to fin
  
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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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• I wrote a lighthearted article about Meghan Markle – then her fans came for me

  09-10-2026 07:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  The comments came while I was cooking dinner. They continued throughout the evening, overnight, the next day and into the next week. I was told that I was appalling, vacuous and spiteful, “teeming with loser energy,” a “bitch, bitch, bitch!” How “f**king pathetically depressing” my own life must be, the trolls wrote on my Instagram. How could I sleep at night?It was an onslaught of abuse I’d been totally unprepared for. I felt shame and shock, but I was
  
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• I was terrified watching The Social Reckoning – then went back to scrolling

  09-10-2026 07:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  When David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin’s quick-talking film The Social Network came out in 2010, it seemed pretty juicy. I was in sixth form then. As I posted on my friends’ walls and clamoured for a dislike button and uploaded full albums of misspent evenings at the local Pizza Express, it turned out there was a backstory to this new, exciting tool everyone was obsessed with. The Social Network told the story of how Facebook came to be: a Wolf of Wall Street-lite full of sex, money and
  
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• Three ways social media is harming young people, according to landmark study

  05-10-2026 08:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  A landmark series of papers, published in The Lancet, has shed new light on the health risks to young people from social media.Researchers found just two hours a day of digital media use was linked to higher risk of harm for those aged under 25, as they called for “coordinated global action” to address the issue.This included a plea for technology companies to share data on how their platforms impacted the health of users, as well as for governments to step up regulation of features
  
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• ‘Toxic’ Man Utd fan rift forces supporters’ group founder to step down

  02-10-2026 16:52 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  Just as it was gathering pace, with thousands of supporters joining the revolution, an attempted boycott of Manchester United’s commercial partners has disappeared into thin air.What is left is exactly what supporter groups and the organisers of the boycott did not want: a fractured fanbase who are at war with one another. And it has turned nasty.A group of United supporters – who believe protests over how co-owners Ineos and the Glazer family run the club are falling on deaf ears &n
  
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• I’m a gentle parent – but my daughter thinks I’m unusually strict

  02-10-2026 13:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  I practise “gentle parenting” but my daughter considers me in some ways the strictest parent she knows. How can that be, you might wonder. Well, I would argue both mine and my husband’s approach to parenting is true “gentle parenting” – but while being careful to explain things and not raise our voices, there are very clear rules in place.
  Even before having kids, I subscribed to the fact that children are far more capable than they are sometimes allowed to di
  
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• Brash America is facing its worst nightmare: loneliness

  28-09-2026 07:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  Welcome to Trump’s America, The i Paper’s World Insight series presenting the sharpest, deepest thinking on an era-defining shift in history and politics, investigating how Donald Trump and his administration have changed the US and the world – and where we go from here.• $120,000 should be a great salary. In these US states, it isn’t
  • The end of the American sibling
  • The more America spends on healthcare, the sicker it getsIf the
  
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• The new threat from Russia and China is in your mobile phone

  27-09-2026 07:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  Thousands of Britons are running the risk of having their personal data harvested by using Russian and Chinese companies while shopping online or using dating apps, The i Paper can reveal.
  These firms offer temporary UK phone numbers to consumers looking to protect their privacy online, allowing people to obtain verification codes to open or use accounts with online brands such as Amazon or services such as dating websites – while remaining anonymous.But officials warn that data gleaned fr
  
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• I’m a West End star – audiences put their feet on the seats and talk on the phone

  25-09-2026 08:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  It will come as a surprise to no one that musical theatre was not on the list of professions Hannah Lowther was given by her careers adviser at school.“I had no idea what this job entailed,” she says. “It was always hard to find information about it, or hear from people actually doing it. It remains a mystery to a lot of people.”Lowther, 29, has spent much of the past five years trying to change that. A West End actress now touring in Legally Blonde, playing Margot and al
  
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• How dare boomers like me mock young people over their job-interview style

  22-09-2026 12:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  A former mentor of mine, an uncompromising newspaper editor of the old school, once told me that he could tell whether a job applicant was going to be successful by how they walked into the interview. Anyone who didn’t stride in purposefully was not going to get a job with him. This, by the way, was a man who fired someone because he saw them walking too slowly to the photocopier. Yes, different days, all right.I mention this because I wondered what he would have made of someone walking in
  
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• How an AI image of a lion brought down an Albanian smuggling gang

  14-09-2026 07:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  To the average eye, it was a fairly inconspicuous account. The profile photo showed Big Ben and the person behind it didn’t appear to have posted any content.But this nameless account somehow accumulated 957 followers.It was one of more than 200 profiles connected to an organised crime gang, based in Albania, that reached thousands of viewers through the 900 videos it shared to promote illegal routes to the UK.One major giveaway helped bring down this criminal network that were behind vide
  
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• The new TikTok tactic to lure migrants onto mega dinghies

  13-09-2026 07:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  Criminal gangs are using “coded language” in TikTok adverts for small boat crossings to avoid them being taken down – as smugglers lure migrants to ever dangerous routes on mega dinghies carrying hundreds at a time.AI images of lions; emojis of “ninjas”, Union Flags or boats and planes; and slang words or phrases are being used to attract people attempting to cross the English Channel, without smugglers’ online accounts being shut down and investigated by poli
  
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• The strict parenting rule my sons hated – but now thank me for

  11-09-2026 08:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  When my two sons were growing up, I’ll admit I absolutely loved it when another parent, teacher or even a relative complimented me, and them, of course, on their courtesy and politeness. It matters, and as my mum and grandma used to remind me when I was young, it also costs nothing.Both our boys have always shown good manners, but it’s one thing them saying thank you to us for a treat or a present; quite another to be thanked by them for the times when we were pretty strict – a
  
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• Impact of Social Media 2026 | Advantages and Disadvantages - Simplilearn.com

  10-09-2026 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Impact of Social Media 2026 | Advantages and Disadvantages  Simplilearn.com
  
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• Trump now seems to be embracing Nazi chic. Someone take his phone off him

  07-09-2026 15:07 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  If anyone has earned the right to indulge in a hobby or two, it is surely an 80-year-old man, enjoying his golden years of retirement, after decades in the workforce. Few of us would want to begrudge a pensioner that.Donald Trump, though, is not just any 80-year-old. Instead of winding down as he enters his ninth decade, he volunteered himself for not just the most demanding job of his own career – that of US president – but one of the most demanding jobs in the world.
  Trump is tryin
  
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• The eye-watering cost to taxpayers of Burnham’s slick social media campaign

  07-09-2026 07:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  Andy Burnham is spending up to £1m a year on expanding No 10’s social media operation, The i Paper can reveal, as the Prime Minister tries to connect with audiences on TikTok and Instagram.The Cabinet Office advertised 13 roles in July focused on social video and online content, ranging from a Social Videographer on £37,922 to a Head of Social Creative and Production on £80,342.Combined, the salaries for these roles range from £617,246 to £731,933 a year, depe
  
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• We make £10,000 a week selling our sausages on TikTok shop – we’ve hired 20 staff

  03-09-2026 13:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  As small businesses across the UK battle with rising costs, some have looked at alternative ways to keep the lights on – with one firm saying it now makes £10,000 a week from selling on TikTok shop.Wolverhampton-based Malik Butchers have been a family-run business since 1970 with Adnaan Malik, 45, taking over the shop from his father in 2009.His brother, Manny Malik, 40, said: “My brother ran it as a traditional halal butcher, there was only one member of staff, and it was only
  
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• I nearly made the Bonnie Blue documentary. The real story turned out to be us

  03-09-2026 07:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  Two years ago I was in the running to direct a Channel 4 documentary about Bonnie Blue. It came down to me and, I believe, two other directors. We were each asked to come up with our own take on the film. I spent a day and a half, for free, putting together a director’s vision for a job I ultimately didn’t get.I thought Bonnie and I could have made a good pairing. I co-hosted a podcast called Brown Girls Do It Too, where my friend Rubina and I talked very openly about sex, something
  
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• GK Barry: Kids were vile at school. Now they slide into my DMs to say well done

  01-09-2026 15:47 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  “Hello, my queen,” GK Barry, real name Grace Keeling, almost sings in greeting at the start of our interview, instantly making me feel like a close personal friend. This ability to draw people in is what made her one of the original stars of TikTok, with a following of 4.2 million.The 27 year old can make people snigger with ease, whether it’s recounting chaotic situations – such as the time she pulled a thong out of her tote bag instead of keys at university – or m
  
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• Snapchat was warned over teen crash deaths. But didn’t respond

  30-08-2026 16:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  Snapchat is facing questions over its role in dangerous driving after it emerged that the social media company failed to respond to warnings from a coroner following the crash deaths of two teenagers.The coroner issued a formal Prevention of Future Deaths report – a legal warning made when an inquest identifies a risk of further deaths unless action is taken – following the deaths of Matilda “Tilly” Seccombe, 16, and Harry Purcell, 17, who were killed in a crash in Warwic
  
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• Gary Neville is ruining Dragons’ Den

  27-08-2026 21:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  How do you make a small fortune in business? You start with a large one! Or so the wisdom of Dragons’ Den seems to go these days, as the well-heeled former footballer Gary Neville returns to the series to offer business mentorship to aspiring CEOs. But his presence is sending the wrong message about what it takes to be successful in 2026.You can see why the show’s producers like Neville. He is a chipper presence in the studio, full of praise for the young entrepreneurs who appear bef
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg’s toxic empire is starting to crack

  27-08-2026 16:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  Finally, Meta gets its Big Tobacco moment.The tech giant’s decision to pay more than $17 billion (£12bn) to settle a landmark US lawsuit is being seen as a reckoning for a company that has got away with preying on children and ransacking its users’ data for decades.Meta will bring in time limits on how long teenagers can use Instagram and Facebook, and notifications will be silenced during school hours.But make no mistake: we should expect Meta to do everything in its power to
  
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• I’m a millionaire’s assistant on £85,000 – the weirdest things I’ve been asked to do

  27-08-2026 07:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  Donald Trump’s executive assistant (EA), Natalie Harp, has entered the spotlight following reports that she joined him when he swapped planes to avoid an assassination plot, and speculation over their relationship. Harp travels with the President on all domestic and international trips, and is often seen carrying a portable printer to provide Trump with hard copies of articles and social media posts.Executive assistants can be some of the most powerful people in a company – as the ga
  
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• Instagram and Facebook to be made safer for children in the US…but not the UK

  26-08-2026 19:31 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  Children in the UK will not be given the additional protection measuresMeta has pledged to roll out in the US after reaching an eye-watering settlement in America.
  A $18bn (£13.24bn) deal has been agreed with the Facebook and Instagram owner Meta following claims brought by 29 US states that argued the platforms harmed children.
  On top of the financial settlement, Meta has guaranteed that it will introduce significant protections to children and teen accounts on their apps.
  These changes,
  
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• The disturbing videos that show speeding drivers risking lives for likes

  25-08-2026 07:00 via Social Media - The i Paper
  
  In August last year, 17-year-old Theo Rae shared a video on Facebook of two boys in the back of a car being driven at speed with police chasing in the background.It is not clear whether Rae was one of those involved in the incident as faces are obscured, but he wrote in the comments “#didntgetcaught”.This weekend, Rae was one of five young men who were killed when the Volkswagen Passat they were in collided with a police car while being driven the wrong way down the A66 near Middlesb
  
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