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‘Trying to text and call’: Australian girl, 10, was at sleepover when family died in US light plane crash

Queenslanders Christian and Misty Kath and their eldest daughter Lily killed when rented Piper Cherokee crashed off coast of Florida on the weekend

The Guardian - AU

Congress sticks with Twitter instead of flocking to other social media, for now

WASHINGTON — When Elon Musk took over Twitter a few weeks back, the online vultures began to circle. Pundits signed up for competing platforms like Mastodon and Post, and then tweeted to ask their followers to join them. Online communities held impromptu funerals for the app as Musk laid off…

Tribune News Service

Australian share market follows Wall Street down, Downer plunges 20pc on earnings overstatement — as it happened

A fall on Wall Street has sent Australian stocks lower, while oil prices fall to their lowest since January.

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The Loop: Kyiv's mayor warns of freezing winter 'apocalypse', UK PM pledges to take action on strikes planned for holiday season

What's coming up today, what Australia is searching for and the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick wrap of this morning's stories.

ABC News

Pet owner's warning after Christmas decoration kills two dogs

Their Facebook post warned other pet owners to keep their animals away from the dangerous decorations

Liverpool Echo

Congress sticks with Twitter, not flocking to other social media — for now

Whatever happens to Twitter under Elon Musk, communications directors on Capitol Hill are hanging around to find out.

Roll Call

Woman gets early morning fright after uncovering snake in compost bag

WATCH: Snake found in compost bag gets to grips with new surroundings

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Couple and daughter, 12, killed in plane crash months after dad earned pilot's licence

Christian Kath and his family had moved to St Petersburg, Florida , US, where their youngest daughter, Harper, was at a sleepover at a friend's home when the aircraft crashed off the coast of Venice Beach

Daily Mirror

WhatsApp brings in new avatar feature for its 2billion users starting today

WhatsApp is making a huge change it its app today as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that it will finally start rolling out 3D avatars that can be personalised

Daily Mirror

In Defense of Algorithms

They're good for us. They might even be good for democracy.

Reason

First Thing: Democrats celebrate as Raphael Warnock wins Georgia runoff

Republican Herschel Walker concedes as Warnock celebrates bolstering the Democratic party’s Senate majority

The Guardian - UK

Latvia switches off the liberal Russian TV channel it took in

Rain TV loses broadcasting licence following a scandal between the liberal Russian opposition and their host country.

Al Jazeera

Mrs Hinch fans share £2 hack for removing 'hard' air fryer grease that 'works every time'

Air fryers are a great alternative to using the oven, but they can be tricky to clean. Luckily, fans of cleaning sensation Mrs Hinch have shared how they get tough stains off theirs

Daily Mirror

Woman diagnosed with breast cancer thanks to Facebook post

Fiona Kane, 56, found a lump on her breast on thanks to a neighbour’s Facebook post

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Woman discovered she had cancer through Facebook post - and online community got her through it

Fiona Kane was diagnosed with the disease after seeing a post from a friend

Reason

Brickbat: Everyone's a Critic

A court in Fiji has found attorney Richard Naidu guilty of contempt of court for a post he made on Facebook. In the post, Naidu pointed out a misspelling in a court decision. Naidu had been tapped by the National Federation Party, which is currently the opposition party in the…

The Guardian - UK

‘The metaverse will be our slow death!’ Is Facebook losing its $100bn gamble on virtual reality?

The company now known as Meta has spent staggering amounts on creating an immersive successor to the traditional 2D internet. But what has it got to show for it, apart from 11,000 job losses?

ABC News

Baz Luhrmann's Elvis and ABC TV's Mystery Road: Origin clean up at the AACTA Awards – as it happened

The biggest names in Australia's film and television industry have celebrated the 2022 AACTA Awards in Sydney, with Baz Luhrmann's Elvis and ABC TV's Mystery Road: Origin the big winners.

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Daily Record

Warning issued over Facebook and Instagram ads which give misleading financial advice

Consumer experts found a number of investment ads which it says could 'mislead' Facebook and Instagram users.

The New Daily

Australian family dies in US plane crash

An Australian husband and wife have died, along with their 12-year-old daughter, in a light plane crash off the Florida coast.

Tribune News Service

Tech firms plan thousands more Bay Area job cuts: Facebook, Amazon, Juul

Tech companies are eyeing layoffs that will eliminate jobs for thousands more workers in the Bay Area, a brutal new round of terminations poised to jolt the owner of the Facebook app, Amazon and Juul Labs.

Tribune News Service

Judge orders Southwest Airlines to reinstate flight attendant fired over abortion views

A North Texas federal judge ordered Dallas-based Southwest Airlines to reinstate a flight attendant who claimed she was unfairly fired for airing her views against abortion, but cut her $5.3 million jury award to just over $800,000 to abide by federal limits.

Chicago Tribune

Facebook threatens to remove all news content if bill forcing payments to local media outlets passes

Meta/Facebook is threatening to remove all local news from its platform following reports that proposed legislation to force Big Tech to pay publishers for news content is being added to a defense bill in a bid to win approval during the lame-duck Congress session.

Daily Mirror

Couple who got engaged two weeks after meeting divorce - but now they're back together

Alex Scanlon's relationship with her husband Josh has been a rollercoaster, but just three months after filing for divorce they realised they "made a mistake" and are now happier than ever

Fortune

Meta had a system to protect celebrity Facebook and Instagram accounts from moderation

An independent review found Meta's "cross-check" program to have protected celebrity figures from moderation protocols.

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