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The European Union opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X on Monday examining the platform’s role in spreading ‘illegal content’ around the Israel and Hamas war. X has come under fire recently for antisemitic content on the platform, losing a slew of advertisers in the process.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl Tweet“The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether X may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to risk management, content moderation, dark patterns,…

The relationship between Elon Musk and the European Union further deteriorated Monday, with the bloc launching a formal investigation into the way X has been run since the billionaire took over last year.Senior officials from the European Commission said they were concerned about a range of new features that have been added to X under Musk, as well as the way violent content related to the Hamas attack on Israel was allowed to spread without consistently being labelled with a graphic content warning.EU officials also said…

What started as a fairly small strike of Tesla’s service workers in Sweden is now expanding to affect Tesla’s European operations. Last month, Tesla service workers in Sweden started striking in order to get included in a collective agreement. The automaker has always had a hard stance against unions, and it has been able to fend off unionization efforts at its manufacturing facilities. This new effort seemed to be manageable for Tesla since it would just involve about 100 service workers in…

Meta said Thursday that it removed 4,789 Facebook accounts in China that targeted the United States by posing as Americans and spreading polarizing content about U.S. domestic politics and U.S.-China relations. In its Q3 Adversarial Threat report, Meta, which owns Facebook, said it was able to identify and remove the accounts before they gained traction with real people and communities. The accounts included fake photos, names and locations in an effort to appear like average American citizens expressing…

If 2022 was the year mpox infections exploded globally, 2023 was the year much of the world stopped paying attention.Yet Canadian researchers, in collaboration with scientists working on the ground in hot spots such as Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), are still shining a spotlight on the virus that sparked last year's unprecedented global outbreak — and one that still seems capable of new surprises. One joint Canadian-DRC research team, co-led by Jason Kindrachuk from the University of Manitoba, has…

A study of 600 healthy pet dogs has found a strong link between the canines being fed raw meat, and pooping out Escherichia coli baceria that is resistant to the broad spectrum antibiotic ciprofloxacin.In other words, dangerous and difficult-to-kill bacteria could be making its way between humans and farm animals through raw meat that's fed to dogs. That's an alarming finding, say the researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK."Our aim was not to focus on raw dog food, but to investigate what might make a dog…

The Press Information Bureau's fact check unit has busted nine YouTube channels allegedly spreading fake news and misinformation in India, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said on Friday. "The PIB Fact Check Unit (FCU) has busted nine YouTube channels spreading fake news and misinformation in India. The Fact Check Unit released multiple fact-checks in nine separate Twitter threads to counter the false information spread by these channels," the ministry said. Their subscribers' base ranges from 11,700 to 34.70…

Taylor Swift's publicist, Tree Paine, slammed Deuxmoi (gossip Instagram page) for spreading false information about Joe Alwyn, Taylor's ex-boyfriend. During her Era's Tour to Argentina, the Lover singer made her relationship with NFL player Travis Kelce official. According to claims on Deuxmoi, Taylor Swift and her ex-partner Joe Alwyn held a "ceremony in either 2020 or 2021." Now, Tree Paine, who has been Taylor Swift's publicist for several years, vehemently responded to the gossip account, delivering a fitting reply.…

An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate "super pigs" in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking steps to stop the invasion.In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat.Ryan Brook, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and one of Canada's leading authorities on the problem, calls feral swine, "the most invasive animal on the planet" and "an ecological train wreck." They are often…

A new kind of Malware attack, ClaearFake, which uses a malicious software known as Atomic Stealer or AMOS, is being spread using fake Google Chrome download pages and Safari update pages As if the problem with deepfakes…