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Twitter safety exec quits after anti-trans video strife
Twitter safety exec quits after anti-trans video strife
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Twitter's head of trust and safety on Friday confirmed she had quit the company, her departure coming after owner Elon Musk endorsed an anti-transgender video shared on the platform. Irwin is the second head of trust and safety to quit Twitter since eccentric billionaire Musk bought the platform and reduced content moderation to essentially permit anything allowed by law.

YouTube scraps 2020 US election misinformation policy
YouTube scraps 2020 US election misinformation policy
Business and Economy
by  AFP

YouTube will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 US presidential election was plagued by "fraud, errors or glitches," the platform said Friday, a decision quickly criticized by anti-misinformation advocates. "We will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US presidential elections."

California law would make tech giants pay for news
California law would make tech giants pay for news
Business and Economy
by  AFP

A proposed law requiring internet giants to pay for news stories moved forward in California on Friday, despite Facebook owner Meta threatening to pull news from its platform if it passes. In Australia, Facebook in 2021 briefly blocked news articles over a similar law and Google threatened to pull its search engine from the country before they made deals to pay several media groups.

Fitch holds US rating on negative watch despite debt deal
Fitch holds US rating on negative watch despite debt deal
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Ratings agency Fitch said Friday that it is keeping the United States' "AAA" credit rating on negative watch, despite a bipartisan agreement on the debt limit to avert a catastrophic default. While the resolution of the debt ceiling impasse means the US government will be able to meet its obligations, Fitch Ratings said it maintains a "Rating Watch Negative" on the United States.