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OpenAI is facing turmoil over its values, but its CFO remains confident AI will be a 'cornerstone' for a resilient democracy

Sarah Friar, former Nextdoor CEO, joined OpenAI as CFO in June.

Fortune

How the ‘New Right’ in Latin America differs from other emerging far-right movements

Following the end of the progressive wave of the 2000s and 2010s in Latin America, the right has reinvented itself and regained political space.

The Conversation

Biden blasts Trump as having little ‘social redeeming value’ as goodbye tour continues with The View appearance

Biden said the ex-president ‘does not believe in democracy’ during an appearance on the ABC News program

The Independent UK

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The European Union is becoming too obsessed with defence

A new team of 26 leaders has been appointed to the European Commission, reflecting a carefully crafted balance of political ideologies and member states. Each will take on a different portfolio, from democracy to agriculture to innovation.

The Conversation

South African women face exclusion from society due to gender-based violence – how they’re fighting back

When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, a primary goal was to grant citizenship rights to all its people, in particular, to give the majority black South Africans rights they had been denied during colonialism and apartheid. This included the right to vote.

The Conversation

Senate Passes Bill To Ensure Secret Service Protection For Trump

Senate passes bill ensuring former President Trump receives Secret Service protection. Bipartisan support highlights importance of safeguarding democracy.

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Helldivers 2 takes a big swing in its Galactic War by letting players choose the home of a "Democracy Space Station" which "could change the course of the war"

Now that's a Major Order

GamesRadar

The Digitalist Papers (on AI and Democracy in America) Now Out from Stanford

Check out the essays here, or buy a Kindle ($1.99) or paperback or hardcover copy on Amazon. The book was… The post The Digitalist Papers (on AI and Democracy in America) Now Out from Stanford appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

Where did France's culture of political compromise go, and is it coming back?

It took France nine long weeks to form a government after parliamentary elections delivered a deeply divided National Assembly with no faction able to govern alone. The new prime minister has called for compromise – but that won't be easy in a country where meeting in the middle is often…

Radio France Internationale

Elon Musk's X Complies With Demands From Brazilian Supreme Court to be Unblocked in the Country

The social media platform named a legal representative in the country and blocked accounts that a justice said spread misinformation and undermined Brazilian democracy

Latin Times

Amazon, Tesla and Meta among world’s top companies undermining democracy – report

Corporations such as ExxonMobil and Blackstone also big funders of climate crisis, new trade union report finds

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Colonialism and apartheid stripped black South Africans of land and labour rights – the effects are still felt today

Land dispossession among South Africa’s majority black population remains a thorny issue 30 years into democracy. Labour law scholar Marthinus van Staden’s new research examines the historical relationship between land dispossession and labour control in South Africa. It explores how the systematic seizure of indigenous people’s land during colonisation and…

The Guardian - US

‘Morally indefensible’ – but George W Bush will not come out against Trump

While Dick Cheney has endorsed Harris, there have been no comments from other senior Republicans from Bush’s era

Fortune

Meet the ultra-rich Trump and Harris backers

There are billionaires on both sides of the aisle this November. Here’s where they fall:

The Conversation

Trump survived another apparent assassination attempt – but it won’t have the same positive effect on his polling

For the second time in two months, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt – raising further concerns about the future of peaceful democracy and a potential return to a more violent era of American politics.

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Democrats Accused Of Inflammatory Rhetoric Against Trump

Democrats and Republicans clash over labeling Trump as a threat to democracy, with calls for toning down rhetoric amidst political tensions.

Salon

Jena Griswold: "I won't be intimidated"

In an interview with Salon, Colorado's secretary of state discussed the far-right's efforts to undermine democracy

France 24

Online misogyny and the US election: How to counter the war of disinformation

How the US presidential election has been blighted by a campaign of online disinformation including misogynist and racist content. Annette Young talks to American disinformation specialist, Nina Jankowicz about how governments need to step up to prevent the erosion of democracy by toxic misinformation. Plus a group of indigenous women…

The Guardian - AU

NSW nurses and midwives announce strike – as it happened

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The Conversation

Prioritizing entertainment over substance is a dangerous trend in modern political reporting

What happens when news media and politicians take the politics out of, well, politics? In many ways, this is an odd question to ask. Several observers would instead argue our politics are becoming far too, well, politicized.

The Independent UK

Tim Walz is out to teach Trump a lesson as he trials election attack lines on the road

Comfortable in khakis and an open collar, Walz couldn’t be more different from JD Vance, the awkward man in a boxy suit and an overly long tie. Instead of talking about ‘threats to democracy’, Harris’s running-mate made a football analogy about January 6th — and it went down a storm.…

Reason

Trump Targeted Again Amid Rising Tide of Political Violence

Politicians and partisan fanatics spur each other to extremes in what they see as a struggle against evil.

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