National security panel reviewing secretive land buys near key Air Force base
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is probing a secretive company that has been buying up land around a key Air Force base in California, sources familiar with the matter and a California lawmaker told CNN.
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Elon Musk says X posts with misinformation are now ‘ineligible for revenue share’
Posts on X carrying any misinformation that is corrected by the platform’s crowd-sourced fact-checking system will now be “ineligible for revenue share”, the social media company’s owner Elon Musk has said. “Any posts that are corrected by Community Notes become ineligible for revenue share,” the multibillionaire posted on X on Sunday. Mr Musk said the change aims to “maximise the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism”. The Tesla titan also noted that any attempts to “weaponise Community Notes to demonetise people will be immediately obvious, because all code and data is open source.” Some users were quick to criticise the change, observing that the feature is used not just to correct misinformation, but also to add essential context even if there is nothing wrong with the initial post. The Community Notes feature was first launched by Twitter co-founder and former chief Jack Dorsey in 2021 as a way to debunk misleading tweets. Currently, eligible users on the social media platform can sign up to contribute to Community Notes, which involves sharing a short note of context for any post, including correcting an error or providing essential information that has been omitted. An account can sign up for Community Notes, according to X, if the user has not recently violated the platform’s rules and has been on the platform for at least 6 months. Other users who view the note can then rate the helpfulness of notes with the note garnering the largest consensus surfacing to the top. Then earlier this year, Twitter/X started paying creators on the platform for the first time via a revenue-sharing program that provided them compensation for the ads appearing in their reply threads. But the social media platform has come under increasing scrutiny for its handling of misinformation since Mr Musk bought Twitter for $44bn last year and cut nearly two-thirds of the company’s workforce. The platform’s handling of misinformation has particularly been on focus following the conflict in Israel and Gaza. The European Union also raised concerns that amid the conflict Twitter was not quick to take down problematic content even when it had been flagged by relevant authorities. EU commissioner Thierry Breton noted that Twitter was hosting “fake and manipulated images and facts ... such as repurposed old images of unrelated armed conflicts or military footage that actually originated from video games”. The EU has also opened an investigation into X on the issue, while the company maintained that it has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts in response to the concerns. Read More Twitter takeover: 1 year later, X struggles with misinformation, advertising and usage decline Tesla’s profits dip as Elon Musk goes on rant against staff working from home ‘He brought so much joy’: Heartbroken Friends stars among those paying tribute to Matthew Perry Twitter adds video calling – and lets strangers ring you Elon Musk was ‘almost in tears’ on Tesla earnings call, analyst claims Slack to retire its status account on Elon Musk’s X
2023-10-30 12:49
How old is Ella Evans? Court ends Ioan Gruffudd and Alice Evans' daughter's bid to get restraining order against dad's GF
Ella Evans accused her father Ioan Gruffud's girlfriend, Bianca Wallace, of slamming a door on her head
2023-06-25 21:53
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2023-06-01 12:16
Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo alleges 'ongoing coup'
Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo alleged Friday that powerful groups within the country's justice system who are opposed to his victory in the August 20 presidential runoffs are involved in an "ongoing coup."
2023-09-02 14:58
US crude prices above $90/bbl ignite inflation worries
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2023-09-15 03:58
Elon Musk says Twitter to change logo, adieu to 'all the birds'
(Corrects paragraph 2 to owner, not CEO) Elon Musk said he was looking to change Twitter's logo, tweeting:
2023-07-23 13:19
GMA's Ginger Zee ‘honored to witness' Robin Roberts and Amber Laign wedding, shares stunning snaps of event
'GMA' meteorologist Ginger Zee looked stunning as she attended Robin Roberts and Amber Laign wedding with her husband
2023-09-11 12:27
Rare public joy sweeps Kabul after World Cup win over Pakistan
Fireworks and celebratory gunfire raked Kabul's skies as Afghans celebrated their stunning eight-wicket cricket World Cup defeat of Pakistan, a rare burst of public...
2023-10-24 14:47
Frec Emerges from Stealth with $26.4 Million in Funding, Led by Greylock, to Launch Its Investment Platform
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2023-10-03 20:23
Woman accused of killing her husband and then writing a children's book about grief is sued by his estate
Kouri Richins, the Utah widow accused of killing her husband with a fentanyl overdose and then writing a children's book about grief, is being sued by her late husband's estate, new court filings show.
2023-06-30 01:22
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