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Today’s news summary – Paper Talk Many of Sunday’s front pages lead with the allegations that have been made against a ‘top’ BBC presenter, which claims he paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos. BBC star crisis over sex photos The Sunday Telegraph says the BBC has been accused of “mishandling the complaint.” The Sunday Times leads with the thoughts of Nazir Afzal, who led the prosecution in the Rochdale grooming gang cases. He told the paper that he was “surprised” that the presenter was not suspended once the BBC became aware of the gravity of the claim. The Sun…

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Threads: Kim Kardashian and the Dalai Lama among celebrities joining Meta’s new app THE INDEPENDENT SAYS Kim Kardashian, Rylan Clark and the Dalai Lama are among some of the celebrities to have signed up for the new social media platform Threads. The app from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta – the company behind Facebook and Instagram – has a text-style format which encourages users to post updates and join public discourse. Threads launched on Wednesday (5 July), with Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama among those to sign up to the newly launched platform in its first day. Other famous figures…

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The launch of Meta’s Threads proves yet again we are too much in awe of the internet THE GUARDIAN SAYS I came to social media to stay in touch with friends and family when I lived overseas. I stayed for its cornucopia of character development opportunities. As this last week has shown, they are on limitless offer. We all know by now that should you wish to improve your resilience to harassment and abuse, be a woman, express a nuanced political opinion on the internet and – little lady – just you wait. Having been on Twitter since one million…

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FACE IT I’m a tech expert and anyone joining Facebook’s new Threads app must watch out for nasty trick THE SUN SAYS AN expert has warned of the hidden dangers that could be lurking on Mark Zuckerberg’s new Threads app. The Twitter rival attracted ten million people in the first seven hours of launching. But Jake Moore, Global Security Advisor at ESET, says users should watch out for fraudsters jumping on all the excitement. Fake accounts could be a particularly big problem early on. More so because people can buy a blue tick verification badge through Instagram now. “As with…

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Strike action could hit summer holiday flights in Europe Flights across Europe this summer holiday period could face extreme disruption due to strike action by air traffic controllers. Eurocontrol, which manages flights over Europe, has said one of its unions could take industrial action, although no dates have been announced yet.  Negotiations are continuing with the union and other unions, Eurocontrol said. It said it was “making every effort to keep negotiations open and to find a constructive way forward”. One of Eurocontrol’s trade unions – Union Syndicale Bruxelles, had “announced a period of six months during which industrial action…

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Amazon deforestation down by a third in 2023, says Brazilian government Brazil’s government has announced that deforestation in the Amazon fell by 33.6% in the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term compared with the same period in 2022. It suggests the rainforest shrank by 2,649 sq km this January-June, down from 3,988 sq km in those six months last year under President Bolsonaro. Lula has pledged to end deforestation, or forest clearance, by 2030. But it’s a huge task to meet this target, as the area of rainforest still reported to be lost under his…

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