India’s Outrage Machine Devours a Star YouTuber Over a Crude One-Liner
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India’s Outrage Machine Devours a Star YouTuber Over a Crude One-Liner

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Indian internet is a boisterous place, not always for the faint of heart. But sometimes India itself turns fainthearted in the face of the internet. Or livid, when family values are at stake. Until a couple of weeks ago, Ranveer Allahbadia, 31,…

Kremlin Chokes YouTube Service, but Russians Find Ways Around It
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Kremlin Chokes YouTube Service, but Russians Find Ways Around It

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines He blocked Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. He signed a censorship law that led TikTok to disable its functions. President Vladimir V. Putin has clamped down on free expression in Russia to a degree unseen since the Soviet era. Now he is taking aim…

How Does DeepSeek’s A.I. Chatbot Compare to ChatGPT and Other Competitors?
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How Does DeepSeek’s A.I. Chatbot Compare to ChatGPT and Other Competitors?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A new chatbot created by the Chinese company DeepSeek is the talk of the A.I. world, and has sent a jolt through the U.S. stock market. Not only does it seem to be comparable to those of leading companies like OpenAI and Anthropic,…

What’s Behind Meta’s Makeover Ahead of Trump’s Second Term?
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What’s Behind Meta’s Makeover Ahead of Trump’s Second Term?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For years, Mark Zuckerberg tried to keep his social networks above the fray of partisan politics. And why not? Meta’s flagship apps — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — were rowdy nation-states unto themselves, with billions of users, fragile internal politics, skittish advertisers, perpetually…

Facebook Shifts Content Moderation to Its Users. Are You Ready?
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Facebook Shifts Content Moderation to Its Users. Are You Ready?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Meta would like to introduce its next fact-checker — the one who will spot falsehoods, pen convincing corrections and warn others about misleading content. It’s you. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, announced Tuesday that he was ending much of the company’s moderation efforts,…

New York Times drops a story on DEI dangers for fear of a staff revolt
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New York Times drops a story on DEI dangers for fear of a staff revolt

We weren’t exactly surprised by the study that found that extreme Diversity, Equity and Inclusion “training” actually increases racism — nor that The New York Times opted against reporting on it. The Gray Lady, after all, increasingly sees perfectly valid news that upsets its woke staffers as not fit to…

Feds blew 7M on ‘misinformation’ grants under Biden, much on COVID, report finds — as Trump vows to ban term
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Feds blew $267M on ‘misinformation’ grants under Biden, much on COVID, report finds — as Trump vows to ban term

WASHINGTON — The federal government spent up to $267 million of your money to study and counteract so-called “misinformation” since President Biden took office in January 2021 — as President-elect Donald Trump vows to bar official use of the term. The funds doled out to universities, nonprofits and private companies…

The left vs. disabled workers, wishing for Trump to ‘go away’ and other commentary
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The left vs. disabled workers, wishing for Trump to ‘go away’ and other commentary

From the right: The Left vs. Disabled Workers “Tens of thousands of people with severe disabilities enjoy productive jobs,” notes Timothy P. Carney at the Washington Examiner, but now Kamala Harris “has pledged to outlaw them” by targeting “a special minimum wage for disabled workers” when it’s “simply not a…

Before Brazil and Elon Musk: X’s history of run-ins with left and right | Social Media News

Before Brazil and Elon Musk: X’s history of run-ins with left and right | Social Media News

All five judges on Brazil’s Supreme Court panel voted last week to uphold a ban on Elon Musk’s social media platform X in the country, rendering the mobile app inaccessible to almost 212 million users in Brazil. Anatel, the telecommunications regulator of Brazil, instructed internet service providers to halt users’…