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UK sports minister calls Joey Barton’s comments about female pundits ‘dangerous’
UK sports minister Stuart Andrew has condemned “dangerous” comments made by Joey Barton about female football commentators and pundits and says he will take the issue up with social media platforms.
EU's response to disinformation online: Has regulation been effective?
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2024, year of the deepfake? Artificial intelligence and the changing face of politics
In content moderation, there’s moderation and then there’s the content. If 2023 was the year that AI went mainstream with ChatGPT, will 2024 be the year that deepfakes swing elections? A big year of campaigning awaits in Europe, India and the United States. For instance, the EU's new AI legislation calls for the labelling of realistic-looking artificial content. Will it be enough?
Signal hits back at French government ban on popular messaging apps
The memo, first reported by Tech 24's French counterpart Guillaume Grallet in Le Point magazine, does not mention Signal and WhatsApp by name, but said "the main public instant messaging applications" were "not devoid of security flaws". Signal and WhatsApp are both widely used by French government officials.
Liberians vote in presidential run-off between George Weah and Joseph Boakai
According to UNICEF, nearly 230 million children under the age of five around the world have never had their birth registered. These ghost children are thus deprived of access to fundamental rights. The problem is most acute in Ivory Coast, where the number of unregistered children appears to be increasing. The births of an estimated 35 percent of children in the country are not recorded.
TikTok accused of exacerbating youth mental health issues
Read more Amnesty press release: TikTok’s 'For You' feed risks pushing children and young people towards harmful mental health content
Nice edge 10-man Marseille 1-0 to go top in France
PARIS: Nice, the only unbeaten team in the French league, edged 10-man Marseille 1-0 with a late goal from substitute Evann Guessand to provisionally take top spot on Saturday.