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EU Law Targets Big Tech over Hate Speech, Disinformation

The European Union reached a landmark deal early Saturday to take aim at hate speech, disinformation and other harmful online content. The law will force big tech companies to police themselves harder, make it easier for users to flag problems and empower regulators to punish noncompliance with billions in fines.…

Asharq Al-Awsat

EU agrees rules to force big tech to rein in illegal content or face huge fines

Digital Services Act can now fine platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter up to 6% of their global revenue

The Guardian - UK

Tyson Fury vs Dillian Whyte live stream: Free links to boxing title fight spread online amid security warnings

Illicit streaming sites proliferate across search engines, Facebook, Reddit and Twitter due to high PPV price

The Independent UK

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Pro-war memes, Z symbols and blue and yellow flags: Russian influencers at war

As the government tightens its grip, some social media stars are speaking out, while others are pivoting to propaganda

The Guardian - UK

Editorial: Disney ‘punishment’ could blow up in DeSantis’ face

The Facebook post from last Saturday is comedy gold. A man in a DeSantis 2020 hat topped with a mouse-ear headband poses in front of a few cars with their hoods up. The caption: “Patriot Convoy just did a BLOCKADE @ the Entrance of Disney. Car Trouble. No one visiting…

Orlando Sentinel

EU agrees on new legislation to tame internet 'Wild West'

The European Union early Saturday finalised new legislation to require Big Tech to remove harmful content, the bloc's latest move to rein in the world's online giants.

France 24

EU reaches landmark deal on hate speech, disinformation

The European Union has reached a landmark deal to take aim at hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content online that would force big tech companies to police themselves harder, make it easier for users to flag problems and empower regulators to punish noncompliance with billions in fines

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EU agrees on internet rulebook for Google, Facebook, other tech giants

BRUSSELS: European Union countries and EU lawmakers on Saturday clinched a deal on new rules requiring tech giants to do more to police illegal content on their platforms and to pay a fee to regulators monitoring their compliance.

Bangkok Post

Fierce winds drive wildfires in U.S. Southwest

Howling winds pushed wildfires towards villages in northern New Mexico on Friday, forcing thousands to flee homes as blazes burned across the parched U.S. Southwest.

Reuters

Coalition scrimps on MPs as Climate 200-backed independents outspend them in key seats

Liberal MP labels teal independents’ digital advertising outlay ‘immoral’ as it surpasses party’s candidates by tens of thousands of dollars

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: catch up on this week’s must-read news and analysis

Russia begins long-awaited push to seize eastern Ukraine … fight to the death in Mariupol … and the cost of war in Russia

The Guardian - AU

Why some conservatives see Katherine Deves’ candidacy as a ‘godsend’

Despite controversial comments and calls for her disendorsement, many Liberals spy an opportunity

The Guardian - AU

Virtual Land Just Sold For 12,000 MANA In Decentraland

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $24,360, which is 3.19x the current floor price of 2.6 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) ($24,360 USD). The collection consists of over 97,000 plots of land –– at the current moment each plot Land parcels are 16m x 16m, or 52…

Benzinga

Virtual Land Just Sold For 4 ETH In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $12,528, which is 2.57x the current floor price of 1.65 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

Benzinga

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Kevin McCarthy privately suggested Twitter should ban more of his fellow Republicans, report says

‘Can’t they take their Twitter accounts away, too?’

ABC News

Labor branch members spread Gladys Liu conspiracy meme on Facebook

A Facebook page managed by the president of a local Labor branch in Queensland has been sharing incendiary posts, including claims that Liberal MP Gladys Liu is a Chinese spy, an ABC investigation has found.

The News Lens

YouTube Blocks Account of Hong Kong’s Sole Leadership Candidate

John Lee was among a group of 11 top Hong Kong and Chinese government officials sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury, including current Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, for curtailing political freedoms under Beijing’s national security law.

ABC News

Federal election: Dutton apologises for 2015 joke about rising seas in light of Solomon Islands China deal — as it happened

The federal election campaign continues, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison wishing Anthony Albanese well following his COVID-19 test, and Peter Dutton apologising for years-old comments.

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The Guardian - US

Meta's Sheryl Sandberg allegedly leant on news site to drop stories about ex-boyfriend

The Daily Mail dropped two stories detailing Activision’s Bobby Kotich’s abuse of an ex after threats by Meta executive, WSJ reports

Bristol Post

Tributes flood in for 'beautiful boy' killed in through-about tragedy

'Absolutely heartbreaking news'

The Conversation

How to preserve our privacy in an AI-enabled world of smart fridges and fitbits? Here are my simple fixes

The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the total entropy of a system – the amount of disorder – only ever increases. In other words, the amount of order only ever decreases.

Benzinga

Top Meta Official Faces Internal Scrutiny For Doling Out Favours To Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) COO Sheryl Sandberg faced internal scrutiny for allegedly pressing a U.K.

Benzinga

This Plot Of Digital Land Just Sold For $19,170 In MANA In Decentraland

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $19,170, which is 2.27x the current floor price of 2.693 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) ($19,170 USD). The collection consists of over 97,000 plots of land –– at the current moment each plot Land parcels are 16m x 16m, or 52…

Benzinga

This Plot Of Digital Land Just Sold For $15,642 In ETH In The SandBox

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $15,642, which is 3.00x the current floor price of 1.7 Ether (CRYPTO: ETH). The estate consists of 166,464 plots of land –– each plot is 2,500 square feet in the metaverse.

Daily Record

Lanarkshire am-dram theatre group set to dazzle with two new shows

Encore Stars Academy will take to the stage in East Kilbride with performances of Matilda and Little Shop of Horrors

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