Last week marked the UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week— perfect timing for our recently concluded Google News Initiative (GNI) Youth Verification Challenge. The Challenge is for those aged 15 to 24 across the Asia Pacific region, and presents teams with a series of tutorials and quizzes on identifying online misinformation. This year, over…
President Joe Biden speaks about threats to democracy ahead of next week’s midterm elections, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, at the Columbus Club in Union Station, near the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Alex Brandon/Associated Press In a tweet Wednesday, the White House credited President Biden with raising Social Security payments. The tweet was deleted after users…
Brittney Griner, waits for the verdict inside a defendants’ cage during a hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, on August 4, 2022. Photo by EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images US officials were able to meet with Brittney Griner in person Thursday for the first time in weeks. State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said Griner displayed “tenacity”…
According to an internal memo sent to Twitter employees, the new management under Elon Musk will begin conducting layoffs Friday morning. These layoffs have been rumored since before Musk’s takeover, with the most recent report estimating that half of the 7,500 employees will lose their jobs. On Thursday evening, all employees received an email stating…
Twitter will reportedly begin laying off workers on Friday, only a week after Elon Musk officially took control of the website. Around half of the company’s staff members will lose their jobs, according to internal messages seen by The New York Times and The Washington Post. That’s consistent with the previous reports that came out earlier…
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Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Twitter has notified employees that the company will be “reducing our global workforce” on Friday, November 4th, according to an unsigned internal memo seen by The Verge. The confirmation comes a week after Elon Musk became Twitter’s new owner and quickly started making changes to how the social…
Enlarge / Woman on a kg weight scale (credit: Getty | BSIP) A repurposed Type 2 diabetes drug helped teens with obesity lose a significant amount of body weight, lowered their risk factors for cardiovascular disease, and improved their weight-related quality of life over a 68-week clinical trial, researchers reported this week in the New…
A bottlenose dolphin in the Black Sea near Ukraine. imageBROKER/Andrey Nekrasov/Getty Images There’s been an increase in dolphin strandings around the Black Sea since the war in Ukraine began. Dolphins and porpoises talk and navigate via sound, which may be disrupted by the loud noises of war. The long term impacts are not yet clear,…
Elon Musk. Muhammed Selim Korkutata/Anadolu Elon Musk has broken his silence with Twitter employees. After seven days of hearing nothing from their new boss, Twitter employees on Thursday received an email from the company confirming that there would be layoffs on Friday. It also said all of the company’s offices were being “temporarily closed and…