• A report by anti-misinformation group ‘Media Matters for America’ has found that TikTok is infested with extremist material, posted by various members of the ‘Boogaloo Bois’ movement. 
• Chloe Colliver from the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, an anti-extremist think-tank expresses specific concern at how young many TikTok users are saying “it’s an impressionable audience and a dangerous platform in the wrong hands”.
• To report online material featuring terrorism or extremism you can use the UK Government portal.

• Facebook says it mistakenly let 5,000 developers gather information from people’s profiles after a time limit on their rights had expired. 
• Apps on Facebook are supposed to be prevented from accessing people’s personal data if the app has not been used for 90 days. This was policy after Mark Zuckerberg faced questioning before the US Congress in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018. 
• Facebook said that lock-out didn’t always work due to a flaw in how it recorded inactivity but that they “fixed the issue the day after we found it”.

• Katie Price has told MPs that there has to be “some kind of justice” for those who are bullied online. 
• Appearing virtually at the Commons Petitions Committee, the reality TV star said trolling was getting worse because there were “no consequences”.
• Ms. Price spoke about the abuse her disabled son Harvey has received online, as part of an inquiry into the issue, saying “my son Harvey was born with disabilities, he gets a lot of racial abuse, disgusting despicable things”.
• The PM has said the government is “working at pace” on new legislation against “online harms”.

• There has been a significant rise in the UK in the number of LGBT people seeking suicide-prevention support, during lockdown.
• Support group LGBT Hero reports 11,000 people have accessed its suicide-prevention web pages – up over 44% on the first three months of the year. Other LGBT charities have service users who have killed themselves.
• One victim’s mother says they “massively struggled” with being disconnected from the community during lockdown.
• The government considers LGBT people to be at higher risk of suicide but no national data on LGBT suicides is kept.

• British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, an ex-girlfriend of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has been charged in the US after being arrested by the FBI.
• She is accused of assisting Epstein in his systematic abuse of children across borders. 
• Prince Andrew continues to face mounting pressure to speak to FBI investigators prosecutors, who have urged the Prince to come forward over allegations of sexual abuse related to the case.
• In a press conference, prosecutors publicly asked victims of Epstein’s child sex trafficking network to come forward no matter when the abuse happened. 
• In the UK you can contact NAPAC or the NSPCC adults helpline with any concerns.
• You can also contact the NSPCC’s whistleblowing helpline if you have concerns about the handling of allegations.

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