Are new laws needed to stop coronavirus conspiracies on social media? | Tuesday 21st July 2020

MPs say an online harms regulator should be appointed to hold social media platforms to account over misinformation. The US government imposes trade sanctions on 11 companies it says are implicated in human rights abuses in China. Greta Thunberg says she’s giving away the one million Euros she received for winning the Gulbenkian Prize, and in other environmental issues a new study has found an estimated 94,000 microplastics flow down sections of the River Thames every second. Also, the rapper Logic retires from music and signs an exclusive seven-figure deal with Twitch, SpaceX successfully launches South Korea's first military satellite, while the MoD contracts Airbus UK to create and launch one for the British forces. Guess how much three of the joysticks from the Apollo 11 command module sold for at auction? And scientists accidentally create... a hybrid fish.

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