Southport attack

UK may need new scheme to detect people obsessed with violence, report to say | Prevent strategy

A new scheme to detect people who are obsessed with violence before they kill, such as the Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana, should be considered by the government, an official report will say. The report into Prevent, the controversial programme intended to stop people from becoming terrorists, will also find repeated “failings” in the case of […]

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Social media incentivised spread of Southport misinformation, MPs say | Social media

Social media business models endangered the public by incentivising the spread of dangerous misinformation after the 2024 Southport murders, MPs have concluded, adding that current online safety laws have “major holes”. The Commons science and technology select committee called for new multimillion-pound fines for platforms that do not set out how they will tackle the

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