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Albanian-Turkish YouTuber and researcher Diamond Tema, known for his videos on religion and philosophy, has been forced to leave Turkey following online threats of arrest over a debate on Islam he took part in. Tema, who has more than 870,000 subscribers on the video-sharing platform, blasted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling Justice and Development Party over its alleged Islamist leanings. In the debate, he also criticised opposition parties, such as the main opposition Republican People's Party and IYI Parti, or Good Party. In a video titled "He who tells the truth will be sued...
Euronews (English)
A top US health official called on lawmakers to require warning labels on social media platforms such as what is currently required on cigarette packages. US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy said that social media is a contributing factor in the mental health crisis among young people in an opinion article published in the New York Times. “It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents,” Murthy said. "A surgeon general’s warning label, which requires congressional act...
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Surgeon General wants warning labels for social media: We already have 'em for booze and cigarettes. So why not Instagram and TikTok? Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has a New York Times op-ed out today that calls for Congress "to require a surgeon general's warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents." Such a label would serve to "regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe." "Faced with high levels of car-accident-related deaths in the mid- to late 20th century, lawm...
Reason
Russian bots affiliated with a Kremlin disinformation network published 120,000 fake anti-Ukraine quotes falsely attributed to celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston and Scarlett Johansson, in one day, the independent Russian media outlet Agentsvo reported June 15. Quotes appeared over celebrity photos, displaying messages calling to end aid to Ukraine and describing European collapse. The images were published between June 14-15 by the Kremlin disinformation network Dvoynyk, a representative of the Bot Blocker project told Agentsvo. The fake quotes have since garnered over 500,000 views. The...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Russian bots affiliated with a Kremlin disinformation network published 120,000 fake anti-Ukraine quotes falsely attributed to celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston and Scarlett Johansson, in one day, the independent Russian media outlet Agentsvo reported June 15. Quotes appeared over celebrity photos, displaying messages calling to end aid to Ukraine and describing European collapse. The images were published between June 14-15 by the Kremlin disinformation network Dvoynyk, a representative of the Bot Blocker project told Agentsvo. The fake quotes have since garnered over 500,000 views. The...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Russian bots affiliated with a Kremlin disinformation network published 120,000 fake anti-Ukraine quotes falsely attributed to celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston and Scarlett Johansson, in one day, the independent Russian media outlet Agentsvo reported June 15. Quotes appeared over celebrity photos, displaying messages calling to end aid to Ukraine and describing European collapse. The images were published between June 14-15 by the Kremlin disinformation network Dvoynyk, a representative of the Bot Blocker project told Agentsvo. The fake quotes have since garnered over 500,000 views. The...
Kyiv Independent
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Watson
Hunter Biden, the troubled son of President Joe Biden, was convicted this week of three charges related to illegally purchasing a gun while suffering from drug addiction. It is fair to ask whether prosecutors should have brought these charges in the first place; Reason's Jacob Sullum described the violated law in question as "widely flouted, haphazardly enforced, and constitutionally dubious." Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) wrote on X: "Hunter might deserve to be in jail for something, but purchasing a gun is not it. There are millions of marijuana users who own guns in this country, an...
Reason
Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly called Twitter, has become more popular with right-leaning users in the two years since he bought the company, newly published research has found. The Pew Research Center study, which looked at some 10,200 social media users in the United States, found that the percentage of Republicans that said X is "mostly good" for democracy increased to 53 per cent this year, a figure that has tripled since 2021. Meanwhile, just 26 per cent of Democrat users said X was good for democracy this year, compared to 47 per cent in 2021. Musk has said his aims was to...
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Elon Musk's social media platform X is now hiding your likes, a feature that was until now only available to paying users, for privacy reasons. In an update posted on the platform formerly known as Twitter earlier this week, X's engineering team said it would be "making Likes private for everyone to better protect your privacy". It means that users will still be able to see their own likes, but others will not - putting an end to a feature that many had long used. Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam AltmanThe change went into effect on Wednesday and the "Likes" tab later appeared to...
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