More than 1.5 million YouTube videos violated content rules

The Google-owned platform says some 1.6 million out of every one billion pieces of content uploaded were flagged and deleted for sexual abuse, misinformation and hate speech. A new search tool lets Facebook users check if their data was among half a billion users hacked. The health regulator NICE says opioids should not be prescribed for phantom chronic pain. Google, Facebook and Amazon face a new regulator in a bid to curb tech giants’ dominance. The E3 gaming expo will be streamed to everyone for free this year without paywalls. Nasa’s Ingenuity mini-chopper snaps its first colour photo of Mars, and, forget smartphone map apps - a Bronze Age slab found in cellar is one of world’s oldest 3D maps. 

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