After years spent sheltering from the public gaze, Hunter Biden re-entered the mainstream consciousness last summer via a surprise YouTube appearance alongside prominent alternative media figure Andrew Callaghan. The interview went viral, and ever since the embattled son of former president Joe Biden has seen his online reputation soar.

On this episode, Matt and Marianna track Biden Jr’s journey from ridicule to redemption, and ask whether he has fumbled that newly found following with a dubious crypto enterprise, an all-too-familiar fall from grace in the age of the internet.

Also this week, actor Channing Tatum has denied he is behind an Instagram ‘burner’ account which was critical of his ex-partners, despite being its only follower.

Sleuths had discovered comments across several posts which appeared to support him while calling out Jenna Dewan, Zoe Kravitz and others.

We discuss the broader phenomenon of anonymous celeb-run accounts, examples of identities being uncovered, and the psychology of lurking online.

Top Comment is hosted by Marianna Spring and Matt Shea.

0:00 Introduction
1:00 PART 1: Hunter Biden, The laptop saga and Twitter
4:02 Elon Musk and Twitter files
6:06 Memeification and public image
8:50 Vulnerability and resurrection
14:04 The crypto controversy
17:15 The nature of online influence
19:22 PART 2: Channing Tatum and burners
22:16 The truth about burner accounts
27:47 Distrusting the comments

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Manchester City may be expelled from the Premier League after being found guilty of the vast majority of of 115 breaches of the financial rules it had been accused of.

Sanctions on the club, which are yet to be announced, may include exclusion from the UK’s top football league, a points deduction or a huge fine.

The news of the guilty verdict was broken by the Athletic, which reported that 114 of the 115 charges have been upheld. The BBC has been told that the club is planning to appeal.

The news came 1,327 days after City were charged by the Premier League in February 2023 following a four-year investigation, and 22 months since a hearing by an independent commission concluded.

The seismic decisions leaves a huge number of questions about what will happen next, what City’s punishment might be and how the current season will be affected.

One possibility is that rival Premier League sides may take legal action for compensation, claiming they have been impacted by City’s actions. A number of clubs have already sought legal advice over whether they would have a case for financial compensation.

There is precedent for such compensation claims. In June 2026, Everton were told they must pay Burnley £35m after they broke profit and sustainability regulations.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Dan Roan and Laura Scott.
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Powerful typhoon Dujuan is battering Tokyo and is forecast to bring record rainfall.

Nearly two million people across five prefectures are under evacuation orders, with 50,000 households without power.

In Kanagawa, firefighters fear a woman has been buried alive after a landslide crushed a house, while a man in Chiba was taken to hospital after being trapped while working to clear debris.

Some 300 flights have been cancelled and some train services suspended.

0:00 – Typhoon hits Japan
01:00 – Impacts in Tokyo

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CNN, Politico and MS NOW have said they will sue the Trump administration after the three US media outlets were barred from the White House.

Major US TV networks later announced they would suspend their White House pooled coverage of Trump.

So – can President Trump just ban news outlets he doesn’t like?

In this video…

0:00 – Trump bans journalists
01:12 – Why did he do it?
02:12 – US networks react
04:14 – ‘Fake news’
05:23 – Has it happened before?
06:49 – What can’t journalists do?
07:59 – Is it constitutional?

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