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Neonatologist Stephen W. Patrick of Vanderbilt University Medical Center recalls one patient in particular. She was seeking care for an opioid use disorder (OUD) at the treatment facility that he runs in Nashville, Tenn. The patient came in frantic after an exchange at her first prenatal visit. The sonographer who conducted her ultrasound, she recounted, told her in a disdainful tone that she should have a home for the child lined up because drug users never leave the hospital with their babies. Patrick, who is also…

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is giving itself authority to constitute a fact checking unit with sweeping powers to determine what news is fake or false with respect to the business of the central government, and content take down orders to intermediaries, the Editors Guild of India (EGI) said in a statement on Friday. The EGI said that it is "deeply disturbed" by the move and has sought its withdrawal. The EGI is an association of news editors in the country. "The Ministry's notification…

Amid the debate over the government forming a fact-checking unit to curb the flow of misinformation on various social media platforms, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Saturday said there are no sweeping powers or a draconian move at the behest of the Centre which solely aims to safeguard its "digital nagriks".Replying to a tweet from Independent MP Kapil Sibal, Chandrasekhar said that the new IT rules "already provide for social media platforms to ensure nine types of content to be…

Until last week, Santano Viperillo was just a music producer and promoter living in Naples. But on 30 December, everything changed and he became a potential criminal thanks to a new government crackdown on illegal raves. If Viperillo (who goes by a pseudonym) continues to organise the parties he has been running since the 90s, initially as part of the famed 1990s Neapolitan rave crew United Tribes, he could face up to six years in prison.The so-called “decreto anti-rave” was the first bill proposed by Giorgia Meloni’s…