you are bbc i'm 27 here. some of britain'sbigggst with the british retail consortium, are warning that a no—deal brexit, will threaten the uk's food security. they say there could be higher prices and empty shelves. what we need is a proper deal with a proper transition period to allow companies to adapt. no—deal brexit would not be good news for british customers. mps urge theresa may to secure concessions from the eu on the northern irish backstop, ahead of tuesday's vote on a series of amendments to the prime minister's brexit deal. slit smeared slit - smeared blood. in teenage suicides.

to control the spread of disinformation during , the 2016 eu referendum campaign, i giii filféi’f i i. 1. .% in elections or referendums. he also admitted that the way facebook pays tax on its profits was "unsustainable". first, though, sir nick was asked to explain why the bbc had been able to find thousands of images glorifying self—harm on the social media platform instagram, which is owned by facebook. well, there shouldn't be, and it's is distressing to me as anyone, really, to have heard about the awful, tragic cases of teenagers taking their lives in the way that

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between allowing images, however distressing they are, to act as a way of getting support and help to teenagers, but at the same time excluding images, which clearly, by the sounds of it, have done something much worse, which is to glorify the taking of communicable people's own lives, which clearly is not acceptable to me as much as anyone else. i completely understand this is a complexes shoe. i conveyed to ian russell, molly russell's father, that i was meeting you, and he asked, as gamekeeper turned poacher, how does nick think online platforms can become safer places against vulnerable people, if nations can't protect themselves against the internet, what chance individuals? i think that is a very fair point. what's your answer? the platforms through duties imposed upon them by governments have two just make the protections online

better. there are some areas where you have seen huge progress in recent yea rs, you have seen huge progress in recent years, for instant to three yea rs recent years, for instant to three years ago the constant debate was about terrorist related content on social media platforms. that's now been not completely solved but significantly addressed, and clearly this is something that now must happen and must happen urgently on social media platforms, as far as self harm and suicide is concerned, for our youngsters. industry, i has toi size no one also exploded to a size no one predicted. there are now 100 billion m essa 9 es predicted. there are now 100 billion messages being communicated a day on facebook‘s platforms, and i think the race is really on to make sure that molly's dad feels the responsibility, which is incumbent instagram and " " ' ' " ' responsibility, which is incumbent instagram and facebook, ,, ~ , responsibility, which is incumbent instagram and facebook, is " ' responsibility, which is incumbent instagram and facebook, is now ' ' 5:55 taken up. and , 5:55 taken up. and one fiiii taken up. and one of -_ rbeing—propefiwfiefi-eepfindfiefifief the things in this new role that it. to do. to the things in this new role that it. to do i to accelerate that hope to do is to accelerate that process , hope to do is to accelerate that process, because of course it is to some this content appears on the way

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‘ experts whose whole lives are other experts whose whole lives are devoted to helping young people who are liable to self harm, suicide, and at the moment they have said that even some of these distressing images are better to keep up if it helps young people then reach out for help. to a 13-year-old? let me give you an example, by the are he are allowed to see that 15—year~olcis ereellowed'to see that the 15—year~olcis areallowea'to see that the moment. all i'm simply saying at the moment. all i'm simply saying is where you draw the line between allowing stuff onto the platforms because it is a good way of identifying who needs help in getting it to them. 0ver identifying who needs help in getting it to them. over the last year, 3500 people who were seafiéfsfieé to the ‘ their own leading to the taking of their own lives, on facebook, were saved by early responders being pointed to those people and intervening at the right time, so when we get it right, this can actually be a force for good, because you can connect people on the social media platforms, that

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just in favour of political parties and cards that is, but also on issues like immigration, —— and candidates, but also on issues like immigration which are used by foreign and malign forces trying to influence elections. so you are quite right that i think where facebook is now is quite different to where it was even just two years ago at the time of the brexit referendum and the election of trump. and the measures that were put in place that i am announcing today are now probably the most sophisticated and stringent controls on how people can participate through paid advertising in elections or referenda that anyone has ever seen. but the company itself still doesn't know definitively whether or not foreign powers used the platform to interfere with the brexit referendum. you can't know, because what i'm putting to you is for all of the openness of the web, the of have unleashed pioneers of facebook have unleashed something, i genie is out of the something,rthergenie is'out'ofrthe, . ,. you have bottle, you have unleashed something thatis bottle, you have unleashed something that is out of control. you don't know if russian bots are using the

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three k,, f three working jrr three working days, jrr three working days, as jrr "s exes! push, new push, will mark zuckerberg beappearihg—in of the select committee, or is front of the select committee, or is he i chicken? of course he will es tee {ff-gsgéel iqe tee sfiisee’r-ei ‘ in front of parliaments in appear in front of parliaments in _—s. appear in front of parliaments in tehsfi what about - appear in front of parliaments in tog what about in | appear in front of parliaments in teasé what about in britain, he future. what about in britain, he has been invited cordelia, it should be good manners for him to turn up to david collins's select ee peels zeroes; ssteesesmmgesi you eases eseses . s ee peels zeroes; ssteesesmmgesi you e believe this but it is you wouldn't believe this but it is not myjob to advise mark zuckerberg on which runs to take. you could give him advice. what about a select committee hearing? i been to committee hearing? juhasz been to the congress in in european, in here, in the european parliament, in which there are british meps. 0f course he will sit before parliament again, ican't course he will sit before parliament again, i can't tell you exactly which committee in which parliament of the many parliaments around the

world he will be sitting in. but he may be able to fairly soon? is it right that facebook pays so little tax in the uk? i think the tax arrangements for facebook and the global economy are unsustainable and i'll tell you why. .. global economy are unsustainable and i'll tell you why... so you say that they should be paying more tax in they should be paying more tax in the uk? here is the thing, sometimes people think that companies like facebook i 55 tax. people think that companies like facebook i 5? tax. i'm saying facebook don't pay tax. i'm saying should pay