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Experts have raised the alarm over a diet trend on social media platforms including TikTok which they say is spreading “ Health misinformation”. “What I Eat In A Day”, or WIEIAD, videos online are incredibly popular, but social media users are warned to take these videos with a grain of salt. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Researcher warns of dangers of ‘What I Eat In A Day’ trend . Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> WIEIAD, videos have been popular on social media for years and first grew in prominence on YouTube. These videos feed consumers an endless dialogue of diet culture, promoting diets including those with no sugar, or that are high in protein, or with a focus on weight loss. A study from the University of the Sunshine Coast found the videos were doing more harm than good. “What we found was there was actually a lot of health misinformation in these videos,” Dr Naomi Smith, a sociology lecturer at USC said. These videos often recommend now-debunked trend s...

LONDON: Britain will not force tech giants to remove content that is "legal but harmful" from their platforms after campaigners and lawmakers raised concerns that the move could curtail free speech, the government said on Monday. Online safety laws would instead focus on the protection of children and on ensuring companies removed content that was illegal or prohibited in their terms of service, it said, adding that it would not specify what legal content should be censored. Platform owners, such as Facebook-owner Meta and Twitter, would be banned from removing or restricting user-generated content, or suspending or banning users, where there is no breach of their terms of service or the law, it said. The government had previously said social media companies could be fined up to 10% of turnover or 18 million pounds ($22 million) if they failed to stamp out harmful content such as abuse even if it fell below the criminal threshold, while senior managers could also face...