Nigel Farage is a hit on TikTok – but are young voters listening or laughing?

On social media they call it “clout”.

The term refers to the amount of influence a personality can command through their posts and followers who like and share their content. Among UK politicians, one man has more of it than all the others put together.

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Amazon’s last-minute bid for TikTok comes as a US ban on the platform is set to take effect Saturday

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.

The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the Amazon offer was made in a letter to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

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Keir Starmer makes major border crackdown announcement with ‘tough new law’

Keir Starmer has unveiled plans for a “tough new law” to clamp down on illegal employment as he kicked off a significant international crime summit.

The Prime Minister declared that, for the first time, businesses employing individuals in the ‘gig economy’ – including sectors like construction and beauty salons – will be required to verify their right to work in the UK.

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Defense Rally Pushes European Stocks Toward New Record

European defense stocks surged Monday, buoyed by the prospect of higher military spending, while global markets were largely subdued with the U.S. closed to mark Presidents Day.

Stocks such as London-listed BAE Systems, as well as Germany’s Rheinmetall and Renk, climbed more than 5%.

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Tencent’s Weixin app launches DeepSeek search testing

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Tencent said on Sunday its Weixin messaging app, China’s largest, is allowing some users to search via DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence model, as firms race to link up with the AI startup that has grabbed global attention.

In a beta test, Weixin is testing access to DeepSeek for searches, Tencent said in an email statement to Reuters.

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Parents are hypocrites when it comes to using mobile phones

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There isn’t much you don’t worry about as a parent is there.

From the moment you have a child there’s a whole world of things to consider and if like me, your children are now teenagers, the list of things to fret about just seems to get bigger.

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OpenAI expands in Asia with Kakao and Softbank partnerships

OpenAI and South Korean tech firm Kakao, developers of the popular KakaoTalk messaging app, have entered into a strategic partnership that will see ChatGPT functionality integrated into KakaoTalk while providing OpenAI with valuable training and user behavior data. This news comes just a day after Japan’s SoftBank pledged $3 billion to deploy OpenAI technologies across its various business ventures.

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