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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigns over child abuse scandal | BBC News
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has resigned, days after a damning report said the Church of England had known for years about a serial child abuser who subjected more than 100 boys and young men to sexual and physical assaults.
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In a resignation statement Welby said he “must take personal and institutional responsibility for the long and retraumatising period between 2013 and 2024”.
The spiritual head of the world Anglican communion was accused of failing to act on reports of horrific child abuse by John Smyth QC.
The review of the Church’s handling of the Smyth case said Justin Welby “could and should” have reported the case to authorities when details were presented to him in 2013. Mr Welby had acknowledged that the review made clear he had “personally failed” to “energetically investigate” when presented with the facts.
Smyth is believed to be the most prolific serial abuser to be associated with the Church of England, having subjected as many as 130 victims to traumatic physical, sexual, psychological and spiritual attacks.
His abuse took place over almost five decades and across three countries, according to the report. He targeted boys who attended summer camps he ran for young Christians. Smyth abused 26 to 30 boys and young men in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s. He then relocated to Africa, where he abused a further 85 to 100 “young male children aged 13 to 17”.
The report made clear that from July 2013, the Church of England knew “at the highest level” about Smyth’s abuse in the UK and should have “properly and effectively” reported him to the UK police and the relevant authorities in South Africa.
Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Aleem Maqbool and Mark Easton.
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Voters are gearing up to go to the polls in the consequential US midterm elections. What’s at stake? What are the key races to …
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How can you vote in an election if you can’t tell what is real?
Elections are more impacted by artificial intelligence than ever before, with millions being spent on ads to try and win over voters.
This week AI Decoded investigates how artificial intelligence is transforming modern elections, and whether democracy is prepared for the consequences.
Joining us are Oren Etzioni, one of America’s leading AI scientists and founder of TrueMedia.org, Sahil Shah, co-founder of Say No to Disinfo, and Priya Lakhani, CEO of Century Tech and a regular contributor to AI Decoded.
In this video:
0:00 – AI election ads
7:40 – Who is funding them?
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Meta was ordered to pay $25bn (£18.6bn) by a judge in New Mexico after a two-week trial earlier this year which found it had spent years lying to the public about how it handled Facebook user data.
“The lies extend beyond Facebook’s data practices as well,” the judge said, adding they went to “the heart of Facebook’s core business practices”.
Meta’s head lawyer CJ Mahoney said the ruling made it “all but impossible to do business in the state of New Mexico”. The company intends to appeal, which Mahoney says will be successful.
New Mexico’s lawsuit stemmed from the role of Meta in what became known as the Cambridge Analytica scandal and New Mexico had also accused the company of intentionally misleading the public on how it benefitted from content that included hate speech.
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With the advent of OnlyFans, pornographic content has become a fixture of mainstream social media. But the influence of the adult entertainment industry on internet culture arguably began decades ago. On this episode, Matt and Marianna are joined by journalist Patricia Nilsson who has reported extensively on the secretive personalities who control ‘Big Porn’ and the business model behind it. We discuss the revolutionary data tracking practices first implemented by so-called tube sites to monetise attention, the regulatory trade-off between safety and privacy, and why anonymity online may be leading to more extreme pornography fuelled by our most primal instincts.
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Donald Trump says it’s “largely true” that the US-Israel war in Iran was responsible for sweeping Republican losses in the US midterm elections.
His comments come after US Vice-President, JD Vance, said in an social media post “the reason we lost is the war.”
The President has said he has no plans for immediate strikes on Iran after the vote, but the region remains on alert for any further military action.
The BBC’s International Editor, Jeremy Bowen – alongside colleagues from the United States and BBC Persian – provides analysis of what the midterm results mean for the war and where things might go from here.
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