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Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-checking policies Brazil on Friday gave social media giant Meta 72 hours to explain its fact-checking policy for the country, and how it plans to protect "fundamental rights" on its platforms.

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Too right. Stopping Fact Checking gives freedom to promote lies to you. Is this not propaganda? Universities (bastions of truth knowledge and fact) should leave FB and X.

Leaving home shortly to go back to my (2nd) home in Namibia, & #UNAM.
Going to miss everyone. Xmas vacation has been lovely.

Now this is a step forward.

The founder of Paws on Plastic Marion Montgomery picking up a discarded coffee cup with Labradors Ted & Paddy on the cliffs by Dunnottar Castle, Stonehaven, NE Scotland.

Wherever you roam, pick up a few pieces of #litter. So simple, so effective.

26,000 AMAZING dog owners & counting removing over 38 million pieces of #litter every year. It only takes a minute & is great for #Mentalhealth & positivity

#pawsonplastic #dogs

Evening. How de do de! @brettbarling.bsky.social

You need this video, really. You do.

Guys, guys! Stop what you’re doing: We Rate Dogs is on Bsky!

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

Biden bans oil and gas drilling along most of US coastline - weeks before Trump takes office Joe Biden said further drilling was unnecessary and could cause "irreversible damage to places we hold dear" - while Donald Trump vowed to reverse the decision when he takes office later this month.

👏🏻👏🏻bravo!

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Professor Alexis Jay said that starting a new inquiry could hinder the implementation of the recommendations from her 2022 report. "We have set out what action is required and people should just get on with it," she told the BBC. She added: "I've certainly been very unhappy about the politicisation of child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse in the way that many people, sometimes in a very uninformed way, have waded into the argument."

Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations:

HWL. Arsenal 0-2 Newc ⚽️ Leg 1.

Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa warns of ‘dangerous times’ for journalism and democracy after move to end factchecking in US

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

A universal influenza vaccine may be coming soon Vaccine scientists aim to create a universal influenza vaccine, eliminating the need for annual shots by providing long-lasting immunity against all flu strains. Researchers report promising results for OVX836, targeting conserved antigens. While approval may come in 2026 or later, effectiveness against the H5N1 subtype remains uncertain.

A universal influenza vaccine may be coming soon

Vaccine scientists aim to create a universal influenza vaccine, eliminating the need for annual shots by providing long-lasting immunity against all flu strains. Researchers report promising results for OVX836, targeting conserved antigens. While…