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• Marks & Spencer to launch online grocery shopping service

  29-04-2017 13:38
  
  Marks & Spencer (M&S) is working on a service that will allow customers to order food online and have it delivered to their homes.
  A trial of the service is set for this autumn in a bid to capitalize on the fastest growing part of the UK’s £180bn grocery market. The retailer already sells a limited variety of food and alcohol online but this would be the first time it has made its wider grocery offer available online.
  The emergence of AmazonFresh, which lets shoppers order gr
  
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• Facebook admits it was used by ‘malicious actors’ during US election

  29-04-2017 12:14
  
  Facebook has admitted that “malicious actors” had created “fake personas” to spread fake news across its social network last year.
  The admission came in a report by the technology firm’s security team, which said its data “does not contradict” the US director of National Intelligence’s conclusion that Russia interfered with the US election. Facebook’s own investigation explored how foreign states are using the social network to try and sway p
  
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• Channel 4 broadcaster Krishnan Guru-Murthy urges media to challenge ‘slogan-filled’ election campaigns

  29-04-2017 11:21
  
  Channel 4 anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy has urged the media to do more to question the ‘slogan-filled’ campaigns he believes politicians will prize over actual facts in the run-up to this year’s general election.
  The news reader blamed the media for allowing politicians to get away with “accountability-light’ campaigning. Instead of properly questioning speeches and political statements, he said news outlets give them a “free platform”. “They [p
  
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