Seven stowaways held after tanker stormed

Seven Nigerian stowaways detained after British special services stormed an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight have been arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by use of threats or force, police have confirmed.

The raid was carried out by around 16 members of the Special Boat Service, backed by airborne snipers, who secured the vessel in around nine minutes.

The operation was authorised by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel on Sunday night after a tense 10- hour stand-off.

According to maritime tracking websites, the ship reached port in Southampton early yesterday.

Social media platforms have come under increasing scrutiny as instances of inappropriate content have emerged.

And with children spending more time than ever online during the pandemic, parents and carers are worried about how to keep them safe when using social media.

But what measures do these companies put in place to stop such material getting on to the platforms?

And could doing more the y be to keep children and young people safe when they are online?

We contacted Snapchat and TikTok to get their response to these concerns.

A Snapcha t representative said: “All new features go through an intense privacy review process – where our privacy engineers and privacy lawyers vet all features that touch a user before they are released. We have always used this ‘privacy-by-design’ approach and w o n’ t release a feature that doesn’t pass this vet.

“There are no likes, shares or comments on Snapchat and group chats are limited to 31 people.

“Us e r content on Snapchat is designed to delete by default, meaning that the majority of snaps and stories will automatically be deleted once opened by the intended recipient(s) or within 24 hours of being posted.

A TikTok spokesman said: “Recently, clips of a suicide that had originally been live- streamed on Facebook circulated on other platforms, including TikTok.

“Our systems, together with our moderation teams, detected and removed these clips for violating our policies against content t h at displays, praises, glorifies, or promotes suicide.

“We banned accounts that repeatedly tried to upload clips, and we appreciate our c o m m u n i ty m e m b e r s who reported content and warned other.”