Image copyright Unknown The Trump-supporting right has a new favourite meme and it’s being shared far and wide to troll their political opponents. Twitter has suspended hundreds of accounts after users on pro-Trump Reddit forum r/The_Donald coordinated efforts to set up ‘non-player character’ profiles mocking liberals on the social networking site. The trolling campaign was …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Video metrics were inaccurate, Facebook admitted in 2016 Facebook was aware of inaccuracies in the way it measured how many people viewed video on its site for a year longer than it has previously admitted, court documents have claimed. Newly released papers that are part of a US legal …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Department for Work and Pensions says it will contact anyone who is due a backdated payment Questions have been raised from benefits claimants after the government revealed that 180,000 people are entitled to back-payments following years of errors. Calculation mistakes were made during the process of moving people …
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionPM: Extension would be ‘a matter of months’ The EU says it is ready to extend the post-Brexit transition period if the UK wants. The current length of the transition period – designed to smooth the path from Brexit to the UK and EU’s future permanent relationship …
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionHow restaurants with poor hygiene are still available on Just Eat Many takeaway shops in England with a zero rating for hygiene are among those listed on the Just Eat food ordering app, a BBC investigation has found. Half of outlets rated as zero by the Food …
Facebook has apologised to a mum whose baby was stillborn after she continued to receive parent-related adverts despite triggering the settings to hide them. Anna England Kerr wrote an open letter to the social media giant – asking them to stop bombarding her. “Your ads were unintentionally taunting me with reminders of what I’d lost,” …
Image copyright NTT Docomo Image caption The credit-card-sized phone will fit inside a card holder A 5.3mm (0.2in) thick 4G phone has been announced by Japan’s biggest telecoms firm NTT Docomo. The compact device, which will be released in Japan next month, is designed to fit inside a card holder. It is part of a …
Image copyright Angelene Bungay Image caption Angelene Bungay lost £13,000 after transferring it to someone she thought was her builder The name of someone receiving a payment will be as important as their banking details for the first time from next summer, in an attempt to combat fraud. At present, anyone wanting to transfer money …
Image copyright Getty Images Kleenex is scrapping “Mansize” branding from its tissue boxes after 60 years on the shelves as consumers called it out for being sexist. The company said the tissues would now be called “Extra Large”. One customer questioned the firm after her four-year-old son asked if “girls, boys and mummies” can use …
Image copyright Getty Images UK retail sales saw their biggest drop in six months in September as customers spent less on food, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said. Sales fell by 0.8% from August, while annual growth slowed to 3% from 3.4%. Rhian Murphy, head of retail sales at the ONS, said sales …