It is irresponsible for social media giants to allow teens to glory in driving at shocking speeds on wrong side of road

Video nasties SOCIAL media sites have no business making money from allowing teens to glory in driving at shocking speeds on the wrong side of the road. It is wholly irresponsible for the likes of TikTok to encourage reckless law-breaking with such fatal consequences. Social media sites have no business making money from allowing teens to glory in driving at shocking speeds on the wrong side of the road Credit: Instagram. Two brave armed officers — one an Iraq war hero — were killed by a runaway car in Middlesbrough. Two of the “joyriders” were thugs who previously posted videos of high-speed chases for mindless “likes”. Other social media accounts linked to the car’s passengers show men in balaclavas on motorbikes and speeding cars. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! That investigators say there is no evidence of filming in this particular case doesn’t lessen the shattering senselessness of the deaths of PCs Tom Clough and Matthew Blades. How social media giants respond to public outrage over algorithms that push such violent content will tell us whether they prize profit over responsibility. Breaking Vlad ANDY Burnham’s steadfast support of Ukraine might be the most welcome move of his premiership so far. Providing the blueprints so Kyiv can make its own long-range Storm Shadow missiles will worry Putin, even if they will take time to build. But Burnham must also realise how much Britain is at risk, too. So far he has been less than clear over spending plans for our Armed Forces. Most read in The Sun It’s no use handing cash to Ukraine while leaving our own defence well short. Gas blast BRITAIN’S dash for Net Zero has made our country worse than the economic basket case of Venezuela. So says Jim Johnson, boss of one of the country’s oldest energy firms Hunting, who says “crazy” Government policies mean he’ll never invest in the UK again. He said: “The reality is that Britain has become uninvestable. Everything your politicians have done has shown me that we cannot trust them.” Johnson’s words make for grim reading for Chancellor John Healey, desperate for growth to balance the books. It’s also another reminder of the folly of smashing our North Sea gas and oil industry with massive taxes. Free enterprise ANDY Burnham must understand he will never fix soaring youth unemployment without freeing up businesses to grow. Labour seems to think only State schemes and subsidies are the answer. But cutting the sky-high taxes that stop firms hiring youngsters would be faster, cheaper, and far more likely to work. Comment now