PA Media Belfast Crown Court heard how posts on Twitter left Emma Little-Pengelly so scared she considered moving from her home A Belfast man who sent threatening online messages to Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister and smashed the windows of a party colleague’s office has been jailed. Emma Little-Pengelly of the Democratic Unionist Party (...
Danai Nesta Kupemba BBC News Getty Images Billionaire Elon Musk has said he regrets some of the posts he made about US President Donald Trump during their war of words on social media. “I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,” he said on his platform X....
McDonald’s has suffered its biggest drop in US sales since the height of Covid, a fall that it said was driven by wider concerns about the US economy. The world’s largest burger chain’s revenue at US stores open at least a year sank 3.6% in the first three months of 2025 compared with the same...
Damian Grammaticas Political correspondent Phil Kemp Political reporter Getty Images Reform UK is fielding local election candidates who have “posted hate, pushed far-right conspiracies and praised extremists” – despite Nigel Farage’s claim to have beefed up the party’s vetting process, campaign group Hope Not Hate has said. Reform UK, which has recruited more than 1,600...
Meta has an independent Oversight Board that reviews and makes decisions about content. The way this usually works, it seems is that someone challenges the content and the Oversight Board acts as a kind of final court where the content is judged for compatibility with the site’s rules. Last year, two posts on Meta by...
BBC Eni Aluko said she was “past the point of asking nicely” for women and girls to be treated with respect A broadcaster who was targeted on social media by ex-footballer Joey Barton has said she hoped a judgement that his posts were defamatory would make people think twice about what they said online. Former...
The first stage of a High Court libel case has found that ex-footballer Joey Barton libelled former England striker Eni Aluko in online posts about her and her family. The broadcaster said she faced threats of violence and abuse on social media after Barton posted twice on social media site, X, in January 2024, which...
Widnes Vikings forward Nick Gregson has been given an eight-game suspension having been found guilty of historical social media posts using unacceptable language. The second-rower accepted the disciplinary charge at a hearing over the posts which dated back to 2012. Five of the eight games have been suspended for two years, meaning he will serve...
