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Deadly Los Angeles Wildfires Threaten Hollywood

Over 100,000 people have been told to flee at least five separate blazes, including in the heart of historic Hollywood. Wildfires threatened to engulf parts of Hollywood on Wednesday as a growing number of blazes raged across Los Angeles, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and claiming at least five lives. Fast-moving flames fanned by powerful …

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Meta Ends Fact-Checking Programmes In The US

Zuckerberg said that “fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created”. Social media giant Meta announced Tuesday a significant rollback of its content moderation policies, including the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in the United States. “We’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to …

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Iran Lifts Ban On WhatsApp

The restrictions severely impacted many online businesses that used online platforms like Instagram to advertise and sell products or services. Ardavan Yousefi has gotten so used to life under Iran’s sweeping internet restrictions that for him, a recent decision to lift a ban on messaging service WhatsApp went virtually unnoticed. “Oh wow, is it really removed now?” Yousefi, a cafe …

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