A lawyer for Julian Assange has called on the Australian government to negotiate a political pathway for the WikiLeaks founder to avoid extradition to the United States after a legal ruling in London. US prosecutors’ plans to extradite the 52-year-old Australian from the United Kingdom and put him on trial for the release of confidential […]
Instagram has started an automatic clamp down on the amount of political content appearing in its users' feeds, but there is a relatively quick and easy way to turn off the controls if you don't want to keep the limitations place. As part of an initiative Instagram announced last month, the popular social media service owned by Meta Platforms has stopped proactively recommending political content posted on accounts that users don't choose to follow. To do that, Instagram has automatically set...
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The San Francisco Giants subreddit, a 14-year-old forum with nearly 117,000 members, has decided to stick more closely to sports. Tiring of the forum’s steady stream of anti-San Francisco posts, moderators of r/SFGiants decided earlier this month to take a heavier hand in removing criticism of the city. Sam, a Phoenix-based moderator, told SFGATE on Tuesday that the move is an attempt to cut out low-effort posts and keep the forum away from “rinsed and repeated” discussions about homelessness...
Laura Davison, politics editor at Bloomberg News, talks about a new Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll that shows President Biden seemed to have gotten a bump in some swing states after the State of the Union, and that taxing the rich is a popular position among swing-state voters.
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The New Yorker says Britain's split with the European Union "catalysed the worst tendencies in British politics" in a damning report.
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Instagram has started an automatic clamp down on the amount of political content appearing in its users’ feeds, but there is a relatively quick and easy way to turn off the controls if you don’t want to keep the limitations place
Instagram has started an automatic clamp down on the amount of political content appearing in its users’ feeds, but there is a relatively quick and easy way to turn off the controls if you don’t want to keep the limitations place.