Meta, YouTube accused of designing platforms to addict children

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A dad-of-two wants a bus operator to reconsider its charges for a popular school route amid plans for a huge fare hike. Ambi Ambituuni’s daughter currently uses the 85 bus operated by National Express to travel between her home in Coventry and her school in Rugby – journeys costing £165 a term. From January 2,…

Subscribers to YouTube TV have lost access to ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels, as the two companies struggle to negotiate a licensing deal. Disney said the online pay-TV platform, which is owned by the tech giant Google and available only in the US, had refused to pay fair rates for the content, which also…

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President Donald Trump’s media company has launched a paid subscription service on Truth Social that offers users access to posts from the website’s most prominent accounts milliseconds before they appear to the general public. While the company’s announcement does not specifically mention the US president’s account, his is the most popular on the site, with…