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Ratusan nelayan pesisir Bintan berunjuk rasa di depan Kantor Gubernur Kepulauan Riau (Kepri) untuk menolak rencana penambangan pasir laut berkedok pengelolaan sedimentasi, Selasa (12//5/26). Selain merusak ekosistem, rencana itu akan berdampak pada sumber penghidupan nelayan. Para nelayan datang menggunakan truk dari berbagai pulau dan menempuh perjalanan dua jam. “Nelayan rela tidak melaut untuk ikut menyuarakan […] The post Khawatir Perairan Rusak, Nelayan Tolak Tambang Pasir di Laut Bintan appeared first on Mongabay.co.id.

A bipartisan pair of senators, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Mississippi’s Roger Wicker introduced a bill on Tuesday to overturn the Education Department’s removal of nursing from the list of professional degrees.

Badago leku bat eskolan mapetan agertzen ez dena. Ez da liburutegia, ezta gimnasioa ere. "Lur grisa" deitzen diogu guk, baina agian hobe litzateke "eremu hila" deitzea. Bertan, haur batzuk noraezean dabiltza: gela egonkor baten babeserako "nahikoa ezinduak" ez direnak, baina gela arrunt baten zurrunbiloari aurre egiteko "nahikoa gaitasun" ez dutenak. Hor daude, ezinaren eta axolagabekeriaren arteko amildegian zintzilik. Inklusioa hitz polita da. Ahoan gozoki bat bezala daukagu egun osoan: borobila, gozoa, perfektua. Baina paperezko inklusio hori gelako atean geratzen da. Ateaz bestaldera bakardadea dago. Irakaslearen bakardadea, hogei fronteri aldi berean eutsi nahi dionarena; eta haurraren bakardadea, bere ondoan dagoen lagunak azkarregi egiten duelako korrika eta berak ezin dituelako ezta oinetakoak lotu ere. Gogorra da, bai. Baina gogorragoa da begietara begiratzea eta jakitea gaur ere ez duzula berarentzat astirik izan. Hamabost orduko laguntza aitortu diote, baina munduak 24 ordu ditu eta eskolak bost. Gainontzeko hamar orduetan zer? Hamar ordu horietan haur hori itota dago, ur azpian, arnasa hartu nahian, eta gu, ertzetik, ezin iritsi. Garaia da gauzak argi esateko: inklusioa ez da haur guztiak gela berdinean edukitzea, baizik eta haur guztiek eskubide duinak izatea "Ez dago formula magikorik", esaten digute goitik. Eta egia da. Ez dugu magiarik nahi, errespetua nahi dugu. Errespetua ikasle horrentzat, ez baita zenbaki bat excel orri batean; bizitza bat da, beldurrak dituena, ametsak dituena eta guk ukatzen diogun etorkizun bat duena. Inklusioa baliabiderik gabe ez baita inklusioa; abandonu dotorea da. Eskolako korridoreetan malabarak egiten ditugu, baina batzuetan bolak lurrera erortzen zaizkigu. Eta lurrera erortzen den bola hori ez da plastikozkoa; hezur eta haragizko haurra da. Isilik geratzen dena, atzean, "lur gris" horretan desagertzen dena, inork ikusi ez dezan bere tristura. Garaia da gauzak argi esateko: inklusioa ez da haur guztiak gela berdinean edukitzea, baizik eta haur guztiek eskubide duinak izatea. Garaia da administrazioak paperezko maskara eranzteko. Inklusioa ez da borondate kontua, justizia kontua da. Eta gaur egun, gure eskoletan, injustizia oihuka ari da pasillo guztietan. Galdera da: norbaitek entzun nahi al du? Zuriñe Viguri

Dezinformimi, ndikimi i informacionit të huaj dhe keqpërdorimi i inteligjencës artificiale po i sfidojnë gjithnjë e më shumë proceset demokratike në Evropë. Prandaj, është thelbësore që vendet kandidate për anëtarësim në BE të përfshihen sa më shumë në mburojën demokratike evropiane. Kjo u theksua në ngjarjen me titull “Ndërtimi i rezistencës ndaj manipulimit zgjedhor të […]

A cybersecurity attack on Hasbro Inc.’s network is expected to cost the company $20 million in legal bills and “remediation” expenses, Gina Goetter, chief financial and operating officer, told investors on a virtual earnings call Wednesday. The final bill, including another $60 million in delayed income from a temporary operational shutdown, has not been determined. […]

Two women died within four days at Michigan’s only women’s prison, prompting renewed scrutiny of medical care, staffing shortages and treatment delays.

(The Center Square) – Miracle Rankin and Jen Auer Jordan lost their bids to unseat Georgia Supreme Court Justices Charlie Bethel and Sarah Hawkins Warren but a court battle over their campaign will continue in the U.S. Supreme Court. Bethel retained his seat on the court with a close race with Rankin, winning more than 51% of the vote to Rankin's nearly 49%. Warren defeated Jordan with 59% of the votes cast to Jordan's nearly 41%, according to election results. The nonpartisan race became contentious on the campaign trail as Republicans accused Rankin and Jordan of being partisan based on statements they made about Georgia's abortion laws. A complaint filed in April with the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission accused Rankin and Jordan of violating the state's Code of Judicial Conduct with those statements. A second accusation said they violated a rule that bars candidates from endorsing each other after they appeared together in campaign ads. Both were endorsed by former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats. Rankin and Jordan filed a federal lawsuit, saying the rules violated their First and 14th Amendment rights. The lawsuit was initially sealed, but the contents became public on Monday. Rankin and Jordan filed an emergency application Monday evening with the U.S. Supreme Court after the Special Committee on Judicial Election Campaign Intervention issued a public statement on Monday accusing the two of violating the code. Even though the election is over, they're asking the nation's highest court to rule that they did nothing wrong, according to a copy of the appeal provided by their attorney, Lester Tate. Chuck Boring, an attorney for the Judicial Qualifications Commission, told The Center Square that his client will present its arguments to the court. "Of course, the JQC is going to do its constiutionally, statutorially mandadated job as we litigate this," Boring said. "We're going to stick to the record and make our arguments in court where they're actually rules and referrees." The filing asks the court for a response by Saturday. As of Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court had not taken any action on the case. Georgia is one of 22 states that hold elections to choose state Supreme Court justices and one of 13 that hold nonpartisan races. "We've chosen the system," Tate said. "And if we're going to have people run, we have to let them talk about what the issues are."

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. The number of New York City families receiving offers to public preschool programs remained flat this year, despite a major push from Mayor Zohran Mamdani to increase outreach and expand the program. A total of 99,921 students received an offer for […] The post NYC Preschool Offers Flat Despite Mamdani Enrollment Push appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.

James Hall won reelection to the Chatham County Board of Elections, defeating Vicki Bradley, who was recruited by the local Republican Party to run against him for his alleged lack of support for the party's election integrity initiatives. The Current is an inclusive nonprofit, non-partisan news organization providing in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia’s communities.

The commentariat may be confused, but it’s easy to explain why the PM and Alberta’s premier signed a carbon pricing, carbon capture and bitumen pipeline deal. The post Mark Carney and Danielle Smith have more objectives in common than they don’t appeared first on rabble.ca.

On May 13, the Mission Bay Cluster Committee hosted the 2026 Senior Panel in the library at Mission Bay High School. The purpose of the Senior Panel is to hear directly from graduating seniors about their four-year experience at Mission Bay High. The eight seniors participating were nominated by teachers and school staff. The cluster […]

Duela gutxi, Miguel Ángel Matak artikulu bat idatzi zuen El Diario Vasco-n: "Erraustegiak %72 murrizten ditu gas kutsatzaileak zabortegiekiko". Hausnarketa batzuk egingo ditut, baina hasi aurretik argitu nahi dut erraustegiak prentsa txarra duela, eta hori ez dela estigmatizazio bat, M. A. Matak dioen bezala, talde jakin batzuen gauza, datu kontua baizik. Nire ustez, eta egileak egiten duena ez bezala, lehengo zabortegiek eta egungo erraustegiak egiten zituzten gas-isurketekin konparazio zuzena egiteko, adierazi behar da Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoan ez dela bete 1999ko Europako zuzentaraua, hondakinen lehen tratamendua egitera behartzen zuena. Gaiarekin jarraituz eta erraustegiek erretako hondakin tona bakoitzeko airera tona bat CO2 isurtzen dutela jakinda, agerian geratzen da gehiegizko kutsadura dagoela airean. Horretan, GuraSOS elkarteak prestatu zuen plan alternatiboa aipatu behar dela uste dut, eta aldundiak ez zuela entzun nahi izan, CO2 isuriak ia zerora murrizten zituelako. Lehengo zabortegiek eta egungo erraustegiak egiten zituzten gas-isurketekin konparazio zuzena egiteko, adierazi behar da EAEn ez dela bete 1999ko Europako zuzentaraua, hondakinen lehen tratamendua egitera behartzen zuen Horretaz guztiaz gain, eta erraustegiaren enpresa emakidadunak berak (Ekondakin) kontratatutako ingeniaritzak emandako datuengatik, hau da, “Idom” eta Europan zortzi erraustegi kontrolatzen dituen fundazioak “To Watch” bildutako datuengatik, erraustegiaren inguruko metal astunak, dioxinak eta furanoak nabarmen hazi dira, bai lurzoruan, bai azaleko eta lurpeko uretan. Horri erraustegiaren inguruan aurkitutako beste substantzia kutsatzaileak gehitu behar zaizkio. PCB (Poliklorobifenilo), Pfas (substantzia perfluoroalokatuak) gorputzean metatzen direnak, edo PTH eta PAH hidrokarburoak. Aurrerago, Miguel Angelek erraustegiak hondakinetatik sortzen duen energiari buruz hitz egingo du. Atal horretan argi izan behar da elektrizitatea ekoizteko errausketarekin lortutako eraginkortasun energetikoa %20-30ekoa dela, eta objektuak birziklatuz edo berrerabiliz lortutakoa, berriz, %70  ingurukoa. Hala ere, hondakinen berrerabilera eta birziklapena modu eraginkorrean eta hondakinak ondo bereiziz egin behar dira, eta hori ez da egiten: Donostian (%41,33), Bidasoako eskualdean (%50,96) eta Debagoienean (%51,31). Gero, eta hori eragin duen arrazoi bakarra ez bada ere, ez nau harritzen Donostian 2025ean hondakinen bilketan izan duten ordainagiriaren igoerak; izan ere, lau kideko familia batentzat %26,54ko igoerarekin, urtean 210 euro ordaintzetik 266 euro ordaintzera igaro daiteke. Beraz, aipatutako hiru lekuetan hondakinak behar bezala bereizteko beharrezko neurriak hartzeaz gain, "beharrezkoa da Zubietako erraustegiko gasak neurtzeko datuen ikerketa sakona egitea": "Ikerketa hori funtsezkoa da instalazioak substantzia arriskutsuen emisioak ezabatzeko edo gutxienez murrizteko legezko betebeharrak betetzen dituen jakiteko". Patxi Aznar Bellido

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പ്ലസ് ടു പരീക്ഷാഫലം 26ന് പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കും. പ്ലസ്ടു പരീക്ഷാഫലം നമ്മുടെ കേരളം ആപ്പിലൂടെ പരിശോധിക്കാം.

Content warning: this investigation addresses sensitive topics related to the sexualization and sexual abuse of minors. "> Content warning: this investigation addresses sensitive topics related to the sexualization and sexual abuse of minors. How many times does a TikTok user have to offer or solicit child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to be kicked off the platform? Apparently, more than once. As part of our “Predators on TikTok 2: An Open Buffet for More Than 1,300 Pedophiles” series, we discovered thousands of comments in videos of children that offered to “exchange”, “gift”, or that actively demanded sexual images from children as young as 8. We reported more than a hundred of those comments to TikTok for being illegal: while the platform removed 99%, practically all the accounts behind them (96%) remained active and able to keep doing the same.While many platforms have strike systems to punish users that repeatedly break their rules, it does not seem reasonable that promoters of illegal child sexual abuse material in particular get second chances. That is something that TikTok itself agrees on: the most popular global platform for teenagers declares that it issues “permanent bans on the first strike for severe violations, including showing or facilitating CSAM”. For some reason, this policy was not followed in this case. READ THE FULL INVESTIGATION Predators on TikTok 2: an open buffet for more than 1,300 pedophiles "> READ THE FULL INVESTIGATION Predators on TikTok 2: an open buffet for more than 1,300 pedophiles “Rating” and offering sexual images of minorsIn videos and comments, our investigation found hundreds of users offering to “rate” sexual images from minors. They often specify that they are looking for nudes from particular age groups such as “men of 12”, “only 13 years old or less”, or “from 8 to 10”. Most of them use slight variations in their writing, likely to avoid TikTok’s automated moderation systems. For example they employ words like “decks” instead of “dicks” to refer to male genitalia, and many messages read like “men of 1.2”, “only 12+1 years old or less”, or “from 8 to 1/0”. However, some users do it in the open.Some other users do not ask for but offer images that constitute child sexual abuse material. Hundreds of comments offer to “gift” or exchange CSAM of particular types on videos of minors that appear to be under 13 (“I exchange forced”, “I exchange asleep”) and even declare to be producing the content themselves (“I have a niece and I exchange”, “I sell from my little sister”, “I have my own, done at home”). Different TikTok users offering CSAMThese users connect with fellow pedophiles in the comments section of TikTok videos depicting minors and then move to private messaging platforms such as Telegram, Signal, or Zangi. Videos and comments offering or soliciting child sex abuse material are often accompanied by QR codes or other means to access those services, despite TikTok’s Community Guidelines banning “invitations to do something sexual, connect off-platform, or share explicit images”. Another relevant example of this are the TikTok accounts, comments, and videos that promote clickable links and QR codes leading to self-described “hormonal groups”: group chats in encrypted messaging platforms, mostly WhatsApp, where explicit sexual content involving children is shared. These groups recruit  minors to incite them to share sexual images. To test whether TikTok’s ban on off-platform invitations was being enforced effectively, we reported 40 videos that included references to such links or images of QR codes and found that TikTok left 70% of them online after it decided they did not break its rules. Those 40 videos alone accumulated over 290,000 likes and the accounts behind them had more than 70,000 followers. Social Media doesn't care. We do. Help us fight their indifference. DONATE "> Social Media doesn't care. We do. Help us fight their indifference. DONATE Dangerous and illegalThe content we found during this investigation is clearly widespread and dangerous for minors. From thousands of videos and comments we identified that asked for sexual images to “rate”, 20 alone accumulated over 1.5 million views and hundreds of comments actively asking for explicit sexual material depicting minors. In 50 videos of minors that appear to be under 13, we found more than 1.300 comments from users that offered or solicited CSAM. This is of course against TikTok’s Community Guidelines but most importantly it is a crime in most jurisdictions, certainly also in Spain where we conducted the investigation.Article 189 of the Spanish Penal Code establishes prison terms for “anyone who recruits or uses minors to produce any kind of pornographic material” and for “anyone who produces, sells, distributes, exhibits, offers or facilitates the production, sale, dissemination or exhibition by any means of child pornography”. The fact that this content is widely available and popular in the platform interacts with TikTok’s own legal obligations within the European Union Digital Services Act (DSA).TikTok must act “expeditiously to remove or to disable access” to illegal content after becoming aware of its existence or else become liable for it, and it also has to inform law enforcement or judicial authorities of any suspicion of criminal offence threatening “the life or safety of a person” and provide all relevant information. More importantly, as an officially designated ‘very large online platform’ in the EU, TikTok must have “reasonable, proportionate and effective mitigation measures” against the dissemination of illegal content through its services, something that our findings call into question. If you are outside Spain and need help or wish to report child abuse, find your local helpline at Child Helpline International or INHOPE. To report online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) anonymously, you can contact the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). In an immediate emergency, always contact your local emergency services first. "> If you are outside Spain and need help or wish to report child abuse, find your local helpline at Child Helpline International or INHOPE. To report online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) anonymously, you can contact the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). In an immediate emergency, always contact your local emergency services first. Methodology For this part of the investigation, we used TikTok’s reporting functionality to flag different contents for being illegal or for violating the platform’s terms of service. We reported as illegal content 106 comments offering or soliciting CSAM, including: 60 comments that offered to sell, gift, or exchange material. We reported them using the following route: Report >>> Report illegal content >>> Child Sexual Exploitation >>> Offering to supply, sell, distribute child sex abuse material ‘Relevant law’: Spanish Penal Code 189 ‘Report explanation’: The comment is offering to trade or provide intimate or sexualizing images of minors TikTok removed 56 comments in the first instance and 3 more after an appeal in which we argued that “The comment is offering to trade or provide intimate or sexualizing images of minors”. All but one of the 56 accounts that had posted the comments were active 72 hours after reporting the content. 46 comments that offered to “rate” nude pictures of children. We reported them using the following route: Report >>> Report illegal content >>> Child Sexual Exploitation >>> Content relates to grooming or sexual solicitation of a child ‘Relevant law’: Spanish Penal Code 189 ‘Report explanation’: The comment is asking for sexual images of minors TikTok removed all 46 comments in the first instance. 40 of the 43 accounts that had posted the comments were active 72 hours after reporting the content. In total, from the 106 comments reported as illegal content for offering CSAM, TikTok removed 105 (99%); and from the 99 accounts that had posted the comments, 95 were still active 72 hours after the reports (96%). We reported as a violation of TikTok’s terms and conditions 40 videos that invite users to join so-called “hormonal groups” in private messaging platforms, mostly WhatsApp. This is jargon used to describe chat groups set up for minors to share or exchange sexual images and/or videos. A QR code posted either on the TikTok video itself or in the user's TikTok profile image leads to these off-platform chats. In some cases, the video instructs users to click directly on a link posted in the comments or the user’s bio. The videos, evidently catered to minors, have comments of the likes of “someone (1-5 or less)?” that incite certain age groups to join. We reported the videos using the following route: Report a video >>> Violence, abuse and criminal exploitation >>> Exploitation and abuse of people under 18 TikTok removed 4 videos in the first instance and restricted 1. It additionally removed 7 more videos after an appeal in which we argued that “This video violates community guidelines on sexual solicitation by inviting to connect off-platform”. In total, from the 40 videos reported as a violation of TikTok’s terms and conditions on exploitation and abuse of people under 18 and sexual solicitation, TikTok removed 11 (28%). If you have any questions, you can contact us at policy@maldita.es "> Methodology For this part of the investigation, we used TikTok’s reporting functionality to flag different contents for being illegal or for violating the platform’s terms of service. We reported as illegal content 106 comments offering or soliciting CSAM, including: 60 comments that offered to sell, gift, or exchange material. We reported them using the following route: Report >>> Report illegal content >>> Child Sexual Exploitation >>> Offering to supply, sell, distribute child sex abuse material ‘Relevant law’: Spanish Penal Code 189 ‘Report explanation’: The comment is offering to trade or provide intimate or sexualizing images of minors TikTok removed 56 comments in the first instance and 3 more after an appeal in which we argued that “The comment is offering to trade or provide intimate or sexualizing images of minors”. All but one of the 56 accounts that had posted the comments were active 72 hours after reporting the content. 46 comments that offered to “rate” nude pictures of children. We reported them using the following route: Report >>> Report illegal content >>> Child Sexual Exploitation >>> Content relates to grooming or sexual solicitation of a child ‘Relevant law’: Spanish Penal Code 189 ‘Report explanation’: The comment is asking for sexual images of minors TikTok removed all 46 comments in the first instance. 40 of the 43 accounts that had posted the comments were active 72 hours after reporting the content. In total, from the 106 comments reported as illegal content for offering CSAM, TikTok removed 105 (99%); and from the 99 accounts that had posted the comments, 95 were still active 72 hours after the reports (96%). We reported as a violation of TikTok’s terms and conditions 40 videos that invite users to join so-called “hormonal groups” in private messaging platforms, mostly WhatsApp. This is jargon used to describe chat groups set up for minors to share or exchange sexual images and/or videos. A QR code posted either on the TikTok video itself or in the user's TikTok profile image leads to these off-platform chats. In some cases, the video instructs users to click directly on a link posted in the comments or the user’s bio. The videos, evidently catered to minors, have comments of the likes of “someone (1-5 or less)?” that incite certain age groups to join. We reported the videos using the following route: Report a video >>> Violence, abuse and criminal exploitation >>> Exploitation and abuse of people under 18 TikTok removed 4 videos in the first instance and restricted 1. It additionally removed 7 more videos after an appeal in which we argued that “This video violates community guidelines on sexual solicitation by inviting to connect off-platform”. In total, from the 40 videos reported as a violation of TikTok’s terms and conditions on exploitation and abuse of people under 18 and sexual solicitation, TikTok removed 11 (28%). If you have any questions, you can contact us at policy@maldita.es

The users are not even hiding it—on the contrary, they are proclaiming to be under 13. And yet TikTok is not only incapable of finding those accounts, it cannot even apply its own ban when notified about their existence. We reported 35 accounts to the platform because they had videos in which the users openly declared to be as young as 9 years old. No code words, no tricks—just text over video saying things like: “11 years old, and you?”. Even after we flagged them, TikTok kept over 97% of the accounts online although we specifically indicated the videos in which the users themselves declared to be under 13. That refusal raises important questions: does TikTok keep the accounts online because it knows the users are actually over the age of 13 but portray themselves as younger? Or is the platform choosing not to act on clear violations of its rule specifying that “accounts are available for people at least 13 years old”? Either option is ethically tricky and potentially illegal.  READ THE FULL INVESTIGATION Predators on TikTok 2: an open buffet for more than 1,300 pedophiles "> READ THE FULL INVESTIGATION Predators on TikTok 2: an open buffet for more than 1,300 pedophiles If they pretend to be under 13 it is dangerous… if they really are, even moreThere are good common sense reasons to prevent an adult from posing as a minor on social media, as that can open the door to grooming and other illegal activity. There is also an important reason why most social media platforms draw the line specifically at not having users under 13: in the European Union, for example, the processing of personal data of a child under that particular age is always illegal unless the platform obtains the consent of the parents or guardians. Same as in the United States, Brazil, Perú, or South Korea.Now, as many countries around the world adopt or consider legislation banning teens under a certain age from social media altogether, these findings show that one of the world’s most popular platforms for teenagers is unwilling or unable to implement its current age restrictions effectively anyway. In fact, Meta has already been called out by the European Commission under the Digital Services Act for failing to prevent those under 13 from accessing Facebook and Instagram.  Social Media doesn't care. We do. Help us fight their indifference. DONATE "> Social Media doesn't care. We do. Help us fight their indifference. DONATE An “improved” age verification system that still failsWhen creating a TikTok account, users are asked about their age and TikTok will not allow them to have one if they declare to be under 13. However, many children will lie about their age if that is what it takes to get what they want, as kids have done on occasion across history. TikTok knows that, and earlier this year announced it would roll out “enhanced technology” (in Europe alone, though) to improve its capabilities to “detect and remove accounts that belong to someone under the age of 13”.The new measures were introduced in January 2026, but our investigation shows that 10% of the accounts we tracked that declare to be from children under 13 were created in January and February of 2026 alone, calling into question the effectiveness of such policies. It is clearly a problem on the rise for the platform, as 62.5% of all the under-13 accounts we found were created in 2025 alone.TikTok says it can verify a user’s age using a “facial age estimation” provided by a third party, through a credit card, or by requiring a “government-approved identification”. However, those measures seem to be implemented only after TikTok’s “technology identifies that an account may belong to someone under 13”. That technology is clearly not up to the task, considering the accounts we flagged are declaring their age themselves in writing on their videos or even their accounts’ biographies. Screenshots of two users who declare to be 11 and 12 in their TikTok biosSometimes they use simple concealing techniques like adding a space between 1 and 2 when they indicate they are 12, but other times not even that. TikTok could also have used other signals to infer that many users are under 13 despite what the platform’s rules say. Starting in 2021, thousands if not millions of users have participated in a trend in which they declare their age in their videos. 180,000 did so by using a video template specifically designed for declaring your age provided by CapCut, the video-editing app that is owned by ByteDance, the same company that TikTok belongs to.As part of our investigation, we identified a group of 56 videos that participated in the trend of declaring their age and claimed to be younger than 13 despite the fact that TikTok always had a policy of not allowing children under that age to have accounts. According to their own declaration and the account creation date, some of them were only 7 when they created their accounts. Methodology For this part of the investigation, we used TikTok’s reporting functionality to flag 35 accounts for violating the platform’s terms of service that say that “you need to be at least 13 years old to create a TikTok account.” We reported them using the following route: Report an account >>> User could be under 13 years old TikTok removed just one account in the first instance and rejected all of our appeals in which we argued “The user declares to be under-13 in this video” and added the URL of the specific video from the account in which the user declared to be under 13 years of age. In total, TikTok removed just that one account (3%). If you have any questions, you can contact us at policy@maldita.es "> Methodology For this part of the investigation, we used TikTok’s reporting functionality to flag 35 accounts for violating the platform’s terms of service that say that “you need to be at least 13 years old to create a TikTok account.” We reported them using the following route: Report an account >>> User could be under 13 years old TikTok removed just one account in the first instance and rejected all of our appeals in which we argued “The user declares to be under-13 in this video” and added the URL of the specific video from the account in which the user declared to be under 13 years of age. In total, TikTok removed just that one account (3%). If you have any questions, you can contact us at policy@maldita.es

(The Center Square) - The Seattle City Council approved Mayor Katie Wilson’s plan Tuesday to increase the capacity of emergency shelters like tiny home villages, but not without some disagreement over how the expanded housing for the unhoused should be managed. Under the new rules approved Tuesday, the temporary housing villages can house up to 150 people, up from the current limit of 100. Several additional shelters could hold up to 250 persons under the initiative. The plan is part of Wilson’s initiative to build 1,000 new units of temporary housing within 12 months and 4,000 in four years. Five hundred of the units are supposed to be ready before the start of the first FIFA World Cup Game on June 15, but Wilson has admitted the goal may be unrealistic. While the plan was approved unanimously by council members, individual members disagreed over elements of it. One part that raised questions is whether 24-hour security should be provided at the expanded homeless villages, due to concerns about public safety and the use of drugs and drug dealing. "We absolutely need to make sure that not only do we have robust services on site, but we also have a plan with the mayor’s office, with SPD, in case there are issues in the neighborhood,” said Councilmember Eddie Lin, who chairs Seattle’s Land Use and Sustainability Committee. But cost concerns derailed that amendment. Another amendment that would have changed Wilson's plan by proposing that temporary housing sites be subdivided into “neighborhoods” with fewer than 50 beds also failed, but by a narrow 5-4 margin. "I have no interest in warehousing people," said Councilman Dan Strauss, who sponsored the amendment. The homeless temporary housing plan has also created tensions between Wilson and members of the City Council. Some council members were upset that the Wilson administration was trying to dictate the terms of the legislation without council input. Wilson replaced last week her Chief of Staff, Kate Brunette Kreuzer, who was the primary liaison between the mayor’s office and the city council. A spokesman for the mayor, Sage Wilson, did not respond to requests for comment. Before Tuesday’s vote, Councilman Bob Kettle put out a statement with questions about the legislation, “The bill, as drafted, would expand the use of tiny homes and raise the allowable maximum capacity for sited encampments, but has raised many questions about the stakeholder process, standards of care for high-service shelter, and lacks a fully thought-out plan on expansion,” said Kettle. But Kettle and his eight colleagues eventually cast a unanimous vote in favor of the overall plan. The measure approved by the council is an interim plan; the council will still need to approve a permanent version next year. The city of Seattle already contributes more than $118 million annually through the King County Regional Homeless Authority to build housing for the homeless in Seattle. But the mayor is bypassing the authority, known for its lengthy process for new housing, to speed up the creation of the temporary housing. The city council has already allocated an initial $9 million to fund Wilson’s plan, in addition to $8 million from existing city funds. The regional homeless authority was subject to a critical audit last month due to its inability to document how millions of dollars had been spent. Both Seattle and King County officials, who jointly fund the authority, are considering amending or even disbanding it.

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