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Thursday 27 August 2026 · 00:30 BST · 30m · 2 stories · 6 annotated moments · 26 of 30 min on news stories (88%)
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Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, settled a legal case brought by US states and territories over the alleged harm to children's health, without admitting wrongdoing. The company agreed to pay up to $18 billion over ten years, with part of the payment conditional on TikTok and YouTube implementing similar safety measures. As part of the settlement, Meta committed to changes for teen accounts in the US, including a two-hour daily time limit, a night mode that blocks access between midnight and 6am, a school mode, hiding like counts, and restricting cosmetic-surgery filters, with some features set as defaults but potentially adjustable by parents.
New Home Office figures showed a broad decline in legal migration, with work, study, and family visas all down by double-digit percentages. Asylum claims fell by 21% to 86,000 over the past year, while the backlog of cases awaiting processing dropped to about 40,000. The number of asylum seekers housed in hotels halved to around 16,000, with the number of hotels in use falling from about 400 to 160. Small boat arrivals across the Channel were down 23% on the previous year, at 33,000.
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Claim Home Office figures show falls in asylum claims, small boat arrivals and visas
Visas for work, study and family all fell by double-digit percentages.
BBC News, Newscast, 27 August 2026, 17:24-17:33
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Claim Home Office figures show falls in asylum claims, small boat arrivals and visas
Asylum applications fell by 21% to around 86,000 in the year to June.
BBC News, Newscast, 27 August 2026, 17:28-17:40
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Claim Home Office figures show falls in asylum claims, small boat arrivals and visas
Small boat arrivals were 23% lower than in the same period last year.
BBC News, Newscast, 27 August 2026, 17:47-18:02
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Claim Home Office figures show falls in asylum claims, small boat arrivals and visas
Visas for work, study and family all fell by double-digit percentages.
BBC News, Newscast, 27 August 2026, 19:54-20:02
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Claim Home Office figures show falls in asylum claims, small boat arrivals and visas
The asylum backlog fell by 56% to 40,000 cases.
BBC News, Newscast, 27 August 2026, 23:17-23:23
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Claim Home Office figures show falls in asylum claims, small boat arrivals and visas
The use of hotels to house asylum seekers fell by 50% to about 16,000.
BBC News, Newscast, 27 August 2026, 23:23-23:31
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