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French minister reports #SkinnyTok to regulator over anorexia concerns
Digital media minister Clara Chappaz says TikTok videos promoting extreme thinness ‘revolting and unacceptable’
The French government is seeking to take action against a TikTok group promoting extreme thinness among young women and girls.
France’s minister for digital media, Clara Chappaz, has reported #SkinnyTok to the country’s audiovisual and digital watchdog and the EU over concerns that the trend is body-shaming victims into anorexia and that algorithms are targeting the most vulnerable.
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Former cricketer Michael Slater sentenced to four years’ prison for DV offences but immediately walks free
The 55-year-old pleaded guilty to seven charges including two counts of choking a woman
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The former Australian Test cricketer Michael Slater has been sentenced to prison for domestic violence offences but will immediately be released from custody on a suspended sentence.
Slater, 55, was sentenced in Maroochydore district court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to seven charges including two counts of choking a woman.
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Vatican schedules funeral of Pope Francis for Saturday
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Detained pro-Palestine student activist meets US senator
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