here by andrew from belfast. we sought an answer from bbc news and they told us: the number of competing and contested claims being made by politicians during this election campaign makes it hard to work out what is accurate. thatjob is made considerably harder by the phenomenon of fake videos images and quotes being circulated online. take for instance this appearance by labour s wes streeting on bbc two s politics live last week. what she did was wrong and what she said was wrong and it was right there was a disciplinary process. she apologised repeatedly. but it took five months. it did take a while, but look. if you didn t hear wes streeting describe dianne abbott there as a silly woman , that is because he didn t. but a doctored version of his comments on the programme was widely shared on x, which made it sound as though mr streeting did say those words under his breath. the fake video was supported by a number of comments, endorsing it, including one from someone cl
social media companies are also set to crack down on posts by people smugglers that encourage asylum seekers to cross the english channel. platforms like facebook and tiktok will work with the national crime agency to take down messages that lure people into paying gangs to make the dangerous voyage in small boats. earlier, i spoke to our political correspondent jonathan blake, and started by asking him how the social media crackdown on people smugglers would work. it s been described as a voluntary partnership and the big social media firms, so x, formerly known as twitter, meta that owns facebook and instagram, and tiktok as well. and the idea being that they will work alongside the national crime agency to not only find and remove posts which are in some cases offering special offers, discounts or fake documents for people to cross the channel in small boats, but also discourage people and guide them away from that sort of material. presenting it as perhaps disinformation or inapp
to the bibby stockholm barge, in dorset, in the coming days . social media companies are also set to crack down on posts by people smugglers that encourage asylum seekers to cross the english channel. platforms like facebook and tiktok will work with the national crime agency to take down messages that lure people into paying gangs to make the dangerous voyage in small boats. earlier, i spoke to our political correspondentjonathan blake and started by asking him how the social media crackdown on people smugglers would work. it s been described as a voluntary partnership between the government and the big social media firms, so x, formerly known as twitter, meta that owns facebook and instagram, and tiktok as well. and the idea being that they will work alongside the national crime agency to not only find and remove posts which are in some cases offering special offers, discounts or fake documents for people to cross the channel in small boats, but also discourage
so x, formerly known as twitter, meta that owns facebook and instagram, and tiktok as well. and the idea being that they will work alongside the national crime agency to not only find and remove posts which are in some cases offering special offers, discounts or fake documents for people to cross the channel in small boats, but also discourage people and guide them away from that sort of material, presenting it as perhaps disinformation or inappropriate in the way that certain content around extremism, for example, or eating disorders is also managed. some of this work is already going on, and it seems it s just an effort, really, by the government to get these companies on board and redouble their efforts alongside those at the national crime agency and the home office and elsewhere to attempt to target posts on social media, which are one big way in which people are finding themselves smuggled
be very powerful. so x, we just saw a piece in the previous segment about a child who just saw his best friends murdered and his parents are wondering how he ll get through something like this. can you just talk about how you dealt with what happened in your school? honestly, i didn t. i m in therapy now. i m on anti-depressants. i use medical marijuana. literally i do anything i can to help myself get better, but at the end of the day it s not like it didn t happen. and the only thing that i know that could have stopped it is, you know, at the very least the laws that we got put in place in florida if not including other laws on a federal level. and so i think it s vitally important for survivors everywhere for future victims, for people who have been impacted in any way we need these laws to be passed. we need these laws to be thought