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• How TikTok’s algorithm ‘exploits the vulnerability’ of children

  04-04-2023 21:38
  
  Up to 1.4m children under 13 use app, watchdog finds – and experts say they are being flooded with harmful content to promote addictionTikTok fined £12.7m for illegally processing children’s dataIt is the home of dance tutorial videos and viral comedy sketches. But it is also host to self-harm and eating disorder content, with an algorithm which has been called the “crack cocaine of social media”.Now, the information commissioner has concluded that up to 1.4 million
  
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• Halving social care workforce funding in England an ‘insult’, ministers told

  04-04-2023 07:00
  
  Charities criticise new plans, described as a ‘shadow of the reform needed’ with the care system ‘on the precipice’Charities have criticised an announcement that funding promised for the social care workforce in England is to be halved, with one calling the move “an insult”.In a white paper on adult social care reform published in December 2021, ministers pledged to invest “at least £500m over the next three years to begin to transform the way we s
  
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