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Spain’s PM Denies Knowledge Of Plot To Silence Corruption Probes

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Published: 5 Jun, 2026 CET. Updated: Fri 5 Jun 2026 13:32 CET

Spain's PM denies knowledge of plot to silence corruption probes
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez makes a press statement upon his arrival ahead of the EU-Western Balkans Summit at Porto Montenegro in Tivat on June 5th 2026. (Photo by Elvis BARUKCIC / AFP)

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Friday distanced himself from an alleged plot to sabotage investigations into his entourage and Socialist party that has intensified pressure on a government already beset by legal woes.

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El Nasdaq Baja Un 4,18% En Una Sesión Marcada Por La Debilidad De Las Tecnológicas

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La corrección en las tecnológicas y el repunte de las expectativas de tipos de interés han puesto fin a la racha alcista de Wall Street. En una de las semanas de mayor convulsión geopolítica desde el último alto el fuego, los inversores asumen que la ansiada tregua será más difícil de lo previsto. El retraso en la reapertura del estrecho de Ormuz agota la paciencia inversora, pero este viernes se ha conjugado otro factor para provocar contundentes caídas en las Bolsas de Estados Unidos. Que el mundo sea inestable asusta a los mercados, pero lo que les atemoriza de verdad —demostrando con ello su adicción al dinero barato y alumbrando el problema que representa la montaña de deuda que sostiene al sistema— son los repuntes de tipos de interés.

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How Social Media Platforms Keep Students Hooked: Notifications During School Hours And Paid ‘teen Ambassadors’

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TikTok executives decided not to disable notifications during school hours, ignoring recommendations from their own safety team, and paid millions of dollars to parents’ and teachers’ associations to promote the social network in schools. Snapchat sent alerts to teenagers while they were in class urging them to share what was happening in the classroom. Google executives knew that YouTube was recommending videos to students during the school day that were unrelated to their lessons. Meta paid “teen ambassadors” to promote Instagram and hand out gifts to their classmates.

These are some of the practices revealed in a set of internal documents obtained by The New York Times and included in the class action lawsuit filed by more than 1,400 U.S. school districts against Meta, Snap (Snapchat’s parent company), TikTok, and YouTube. The lawsuit, filed in 2023, targets the four platforms most used by young people for harming their academic performance and mental health. The documents analyzed by the NYT disclose some of the platforms’ tactics to ensure, at all costs, that they become part of young people’s daily lives.

School districts argue that the apps’ addictive design undermines teachers’ work. “It is so constantly tempting to these kids to be on a platform that promises endless, infinite, varied entertainment rather than actually focusing on what they should be at school to do,” one of the schools’ lawyers told The New York Times.

The companies, for their part, say they have strengthened safety on their platforms with parental controls and restrictions on minors’ accounts. However, as Bloomberg reported last week, the four companies reached an out-of-court settlement with the schools in Breathitt County, a small Kentucky district with about 1,500 students that had sought $3 million in damages. The companies agreed to pay Breathitt $27 million: $9 million from Meta, $8 million from Snap, another $8 million from TikTok, and $2 million from Google.

More legal fronts

The wave of lawsuits facing social networks in the U.S. has three prongs. One is the school districts’ cases, some of whose documents were released on Friday. Another, focused on the platforms’ harmful effects on mental health, is being brought by parents and relatives of teens who have suffered mental health disorders, eating disorders, or even suicide.

The third, aimed at Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram and Messenger), was filed by the attorneys general of 41 states — governed by both Democrats and Republicans — for harming children with its products and failing to disclose those dangers. “Meta has profited from children’s pain by intentionally designing its platforms with manipulative features that make children addicted to their platforms while lowering their self-esteem,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in October 2023 after filing the joint lawsuit. “Social media companies, including Meta, have contributed to a national youth mental health crisis and they must be held accountable.”

“We expect many more documents to come to light this summer as evidence in the California trial [the jurisdiction where the main suits are filed],” engineer Frances Haugen, who leaked 21,000 Facebook documents, said last week in an interview with EL PAÍS. “We will also see the start of the federal part of the class actions by families, individuals, and school districts. So over the next few months we will see how the different pieces of the puzzle fit together. That will be the next major legal front in this battle.”

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This ‘quietly Cool’ Balearic Island Is One Of Spain’s Best Hidden Gems, According To The Times

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MENORCA has been named one of Spain’s best hidden gems by The Times, which describes the Balearic island as a ‘quietly cool’ alternative to its busier neighbours.  Ibiza and Mallorca

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