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Lush is set to boycott Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Snapchat in a bid to raise awareness of the “serious effects of social media” on consumers’ mental health.In an announcement on Monday, 22 November, the cosmetics retailer said it will deactivate its accounts on 26 November and remain offline “until the platforms take action to provide a safer environment for users”.The move comes after The Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) “Facebook Files”, published in September, suggested that Instagram’s parent company, Facebook, knew Instagram was a “toxic” place for many young people.According to internal slides obtained by WSJ, 32 per cent of teenage girls surveyed by the platform said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse.Lush’s new policy will be rolled out in all 48 countries where it operates, but it will continue to use its Twitter and YouTube accounts.“In the same way that evidence against climate change was ignored and belittled for decades, concerns about the serious effects of social media are going largely ignored now,” the brand said in its announcement.“Lush is taking matters into its own hands and addressing the issues now, not waiting around until others believe in the problem before changing its…

A teenager raped a 12-year-old girl he met through Snapchat then told her he'd get people to 'do stuff to her' if she told anyone. William Lee Cooper went to a field close to a primary school and asked the girl if she wanted to sit on him, as the ground was wet. He then gave her a love bite on her neck and when she told him to stop he threw her phone out of reach, pinned her down, ripped her leggings and raped her. The girl said that the attack lasted up to five minutes. READ MORE:Woman sexually assaulted near war memorial in late-night attack Cooper was 17-years-old when he was introduced to his victim on Snapchat, a court heard. The pair spoke and first met up at Atherton railway station in December 2017, prosecution barrister Adam Lodge told Bolton Crown Court. The victim had been with friends on that occasion and Cooper kissed her on the head when they eventually parted ways, the M.E.N reports. He then asked the girl if they could meet up again and they did on December 11 near the school. She cried out in pain and eventually managed to kick Cooper off,…

Hit play on the player above to hear the podcast and follow along with the transcript below. This transcript was automatically generated, and then edited for clarity in its current form. There may be some differences between the audio and the text.More: Daily news, true crime, and more USA TODAY podcastsHey there, listeners, it's Brett Molina. Welcome back to Talking Tech. So you've likely heard us talk about ways to delete the different apps in your life. Whether it's you're done with Facebook, you're done with Instagram, you're done with Twitter. Now it's Snapchat's turn. Let's say you are done with all the different dog filters or you're just tired of clicking through all those memories that pop up in your Snapchat feed. So maybe you're thinking to yourself, Hey, it's time that I delete Snapchat. We're going to show you how to delete it. You can read more about this in a story that's on tech.usatoday.com. Fairly simple steps that you have to take. It's similar to what a lot of the other apps do. We'll break it down for you a little bit here.So here's what you want to do. You'll go into the accounts portal of Snapchat's…

“We’re starting to see some trailblazing brands move in this direction,” observes Sabrina McPherson, senior MD and management consultant lead for consumer products, at digital business transformation consultancy Publicis Sapient. “People are looking for brands living their values and prioritising the right kind of relationship with customers rather than any relationship for easy bucks.” This requires a shift in success metrics, she continues. “You’re trading short-term revenues for long-term loyalty.”For Lush, the move was prompted by broader news about social media whistleblowers and the negative impact algorithms have on users’ mental health — an issue that is particularly relevant to Lush’s core demographic of young girls. “Social media was not designed to look after people’s health, but our products are,” explains Lush chief digital officer Jack Constantine. “It is counter-intuitive for us to use platforms that keep you hyper-tense, engaged and anxious.”Second time lucky?Lush has taken a stance against social media before. In March 2019, the company announced it was switching off — or, as Lush put it, “switching up social” — tired of fighting algorithms and unwilling to pay for newsfeed real estate. During the nine-month break, Lush encouraged customers to engage with its staff and stores’ individual social…

AEW has been doing a lot of innovative things as Tony Khan has declared WWE their competition. Many spoke against this idea. Booker T said that Khan shouldn’t get too ahead of himself. Former WCW CEO Erich Bischoff received backlash from Chris Jericho after his take on AEW vs WWE.The latest upcoming event for AEW is AEW Dynamite: Winter Is Coming. Tony Khan has been hyping up the event, and he revealed on Twitter that great revelations will be made on AEW Dynamite: Winter Is Coming. He said that plans for the Owen Hart Cup Tournament will be fully laid out on the event.Thank you everyone who watched #AEWRampage tonight on TNT! Thanks to you great wrestling fans around the world + the generosity of Dr. Martha Hart, on Wednesday 12/15 Winter is Coming #AEWDynamite, we’ll have more info including schedule for the highly anticipated Owen Hart Cup!AEW has been teasing a partnership with the Owen Hart Foundation since a while. In September, they finally inked a deal with the foundation, and seek to honor Hart’s memory. Le Champion Chris Jericho revealed later on that AEW has plans to honor Hart with a special event.AEW Dynamite: Winter Is Coming is teasing a lot…

Big Brother Naija, BBNaija season 6 star, Jumoke Zainab Adedoyin, known as JMK, has disclosed how her apartment got burnt. She said she lost valuables in the fire incident. JMK in a post on her Snapchat, sharing pictures of the ruins in her room, described the incident as devastating, hoping to recover all she lost. She disclosed that around 4am, November 16th, her air conditioner caught fire from a surge while she was asleep in the room. “The last couple of days have been beyond devastating. I thank God for my life and the life of my friends. 4am on the 16th of November, my Air Conditioner caught fire from a surge while I was sleeping in the room. I woke up choking to the smoke, ran to my friend’s room to call her but all efforts to put out the fire were in vain. Before the firefighters came the room was burnt to the ground. The fire outbreak took everything that I own down to all my certificates,” she said. She, however, expressed hope saying she’ll bounce back as long as she’s still breathing. JMK went ahead to call out those who accused her of chasing clout with the…

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For those not well versed with it, Threads was a standalone app developed by Instagram and it was launched in October 2019.It is not yet known why Instagram decided to pull the plug on ThreadsInstagram: Instagram’s Snapchat-like messaging app called Threads is about to be discontinued. Threads had been launched in 2019, but now that the decision has been made to close the curtains on it, users would now be prompted to move back to the original Instagram app. The support for Threads will end by the time 2022 rolls around, and an in-app notice regarding the closure of the app would begin to be rolled out starting November 23. Though this development had been noticed by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi first, it has now been confirmed by Instagram.Also read | Google will now read search results out loud for you, Google Pay getting ‘Hinglish’ supportFor those not well versed with it, Threads was a standalone app developed by Instagram and it was launched in October 2019 as an image-centric messaging app for both Android as well as iOS platforms. It seemed to bear some resemblance with highly popular Snapchat, because like the latter, it allowed users to share images…

While Facebook (now rebranded to Meta) and Microsoft are working to make the idea of the Metaverse a reality, a new AR-based social media platform is looking to combine the idea of social media with a revenue-focused Metaverse space for users. Called Octi, the latest social platform was recently launched to take on other popular social apps like TikTok, Reels, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. Octi launched as an all-in-one social platform targeted towards the Gen-Z, which combines pretty much everything that is trending on the internet. It has AR-based filters like Snapchat, a vertically-scrollable video feed like TikTok, support for NFTs, and digital coins, and the best part is that users can earn something more than just “likes”. Octi, at first glance, looks like any other social platform for users to connect and interact with friends, family, and strangers. However, if we take a deeper look at the app, it offers much more than traditional social media apps like Facebook and Instagram. You can check out the video below to get a glimpse of the “Octiverse”. Using the app, users can create quirky videos using Snapchat-like AR filters to share them on their feeds. It allows creators to fidget around…

A phone displaying apps including Snapchat with a notification. Credit: Canva 2021 is flying by in a blur but now we can relive the best bits with Snapchat's new memories feature. The instant messaging app has revealed a new Snap Maps feature where users can look back on the past year more easily than ever before. While Spotify Wrapped unveils a roundup of what its listeners have been streaming at the end of the year, Snapchatters can now use this feature all year round. The platform has updated two Snap-owned experiences Memories and Explore with some exciting new elements.  READ MORE: When is Spotify Wrapped 2021? - How to view you music round-up For the first time, Snapchatters can toggle between Layers and personalize their own landscape to look over their yearly memories or even explore what is next to come. What are the new Snapchat updates? Snapchat Memories Snapchat is rounding up the year by allowing users to see their favourite moments via its SnapMap. Snapchatters can use the map to look over your memories when you hover over where those moments happened. For privacy reasons, you will only be able to see your own memories and not your friends on Snap Map. Snapchat Explore…