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In April 2021 the legislature of the U.S. State of Arkansas introduced a bill that prohibited doctors from providing gender-transition treatments to people under 18 years old. The bill would make it a felony for doctors to administer puberty blockers, hormones and gender-reaffirming surgery to anyone…
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In October 2019 Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that his social media company would ban all political advertising. He stated that political messages on the platform should reach users through the recommendation of other users – not through paid reach. Proponents argue that social media companies don’t…
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China evacuated more than 200 of its nationals from Lebanon this week. According to state media, a group of 69 Chinese nationals and their non-Chinese family members arrived at the Limassol Port in Cyprus aboard a Chinese vessel on Tuesday. A second group of 146 Chinese nationals and five foreigners returned to Beijing on Wednesday on a chartered flight.A British-chartered flight is scheduled to leave Lebanon’s international airport on Wednesday to take British nationals out of the country. Around 200 Britons are expected to be onboard the flight, which prioritized British citizens and their spouses, partners and children under 18, as well as the most vulnerable individuals.The United States said on Tuesday it was working with airlines to provide additional flights for US citizens in Lebanon wishing to leave, as an evacuation plan is not in order yet. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters that around 6,000 US citizens have so far registered to receive information about ways to depart Lebanon. Around 86,000 US citizens or dual nationals are estimated to be in Lebanon.
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Federal Judge blocks California deepfakes law A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a California measure restricting the use of digitally altered political “deepfakes” just two weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law.The law channels rising alarm about artificial intelligence’s capacity to disrupt elections by sowing misinformation, with voters increasingly confronted with deepfake images and audio impersonating candidates. Musk, who owns X, stoked that debate when he shared the AI-altered video of Harris in July, drawing Newsom’s public promise to prohibit similar practices.The ruling is a blow to a push by the state’s leading Democrats to rein in misleading content on social media ahead of Election Day.Chris Kohls, known as “Mr Reagan” on X, sued to prevent the state from enforcing the law after posting an AI-generated video of a Harris campaign ad on the social media site. He claimed the video was protected by the First Amendment because it was a parody.The new California law — which will take effect before the November election — channels rising alarm about artificial intelligence’s capacity to disrupt elections by sowing misinformation, with voters increasingly confronted with deepfake images and audio impersonating candidates. Musk, who owns X, stoked that debate when he shared the AI-altered video of Harris in July, drawing Newsom’s public promise to prohibit similar practices.
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) says he’s worried that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be trying to influence the U.S. presidential election by showing little interest in striking a peace deal with Hamas and instead escalating the threat of a broader war in the Middle East by aggressively confronting Hezbollah in Lebanon.Murphy acknowledged that the prospect of peace in Gaza before Election Day does not seem likely and that Netanyahu appears to have an eye on domestic U.S. politics as he wages a bombing campaign deep into Lebanon targeting Hezbollah.“I certainly worry that Prime Minister Netanyahu is watching the American election as he makes decisions about this military campaigns in the north and in Gaza,” Murphy told CNN’s Erin Burnett.“I hope this is not true but it is certainly a possibility that the Israeli government is not going to sign any diplomatic agreement prior to the American election as a means, potentially, to try to influence the result,” Murphy said, alluding to the deep divisions among the Democratic Party over the war in Gaza.
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