{"id":6894,"date":"2019-01-30T04:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T04:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/nick-clegg-social-media-platforms-must-make-protections-better\/"},"modified":"2019-01-30T04:19:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T04:19:36","slug":"nick-clegg-social-media-platforms-must-make-protections-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/nick-clegg-social-media-platforms-must-make-protections-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Clegg: &#8216;Social media platforms must make protections better&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>New head of global affairs for Facebook, Sir Nick Clegg, has told the BBC the firm will do &#8220;whatever it takes&#8221; to make its social media platforms safer for young people.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Nick was responding to the case of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life after viewing distressing self-harm images on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the BBC&#8217;s Amol Rajan, he also addressed the company&#8217;s &#8220;unbalanced&#8221; taxes and possible government regulation of social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p><i>You can watch an extended version of the interview <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/entertainment-arts-47034867\/clegg-facebook-to-do-whatever-it-takes-to-make-platform-safer\" class=\"story-body__link\">here<\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-47036349\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New head of global affairs for Facebook, Sir Nick Clegg, has told the BBC the firm will do &#8220;whatever it takes&#8221; to make its social media platforms safer for young people. Sir Nick was responding to the case of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life after viewing distressing self-harm images on Instagram. Speaking &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}