Will Chalk
speaker
5,151 appearances
36 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4 Sep
Will Chalk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
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I'm Will Chalk, and in the early hours of Thursday, the 27th of August, these are our main stories.
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Meta agrees to a multi-billion dollar settlement over claims brought by a number of US states that its social media platforms harm children.
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The world's most valuable company, Nvidia, which creates microchips for AI, sees a boom in revenue.
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Plus.
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How bandits are running rampage and terrorizing residents in northwest Nigeria.
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Also in this podcast, rescue teams work through the night to locate survivors of the devastating flash floods that hit northern Nepal and Tibet, killing nearly two hundred people.
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And we'll look back at the life of one of the leading figures in Palestinian art, Sliman Mansour.
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$18 billion.
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The amount Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has agreed to pay a group of US states that had accused it of harming children.
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The companies also agreed to bring in changes to better protect young people.
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Crucially, though, as part of this deal, the company has admitted no wrongdoing.
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And the deal also brings to an end early a high profile trial in California, in which lawyers for the states were arguing that Meta knew.
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Millions of eleven and twelve year olds used their sites, but did little to keep them off.
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Our North America correspondent Lily Jamali sent this report from the Federal Courthouse in Oakland, California.
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Lily Jamali there.
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Now this settlement comes after years of campaigning from parents around safety on social media platforms.
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Amy Neville is the co-founder of Social Media Victims Remembrance Day.
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Let's get the perspective of Arturo Behar, a former meta insider who turned whistleblower because he was concerned about the company's handling of child safety.
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During his time at the social media firm, he worked to combat cyberbullying, so what does he think of this settlement?
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