POLITICS & POLICY

Australia Dismisses Meta, Elon Musk's Criticism Of Social Media Ban For Under-16s As 'Unsurprising'

Social media operators face a conundrum dealing with content labeled satire, which may also be harmful misinformation
Responding to Elon Musk's criticism, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said, "Our job is not to come up with a social media policy to please Elon Musk. Our job is to put in place the necessary protection for kids online, and that's our motivation. We do that in the face of feedback from all quarters, we listen respectfully to the feedback we get on this policy and indeed on all of our policies, even where we don't agree with it."
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The noise campaign is the latest manifestation of steadily-declining ties between the two Koreas this year

N. Korea's Latest Weapon? Bombarding South With Noise

Gunshots, screams, eerie laughter: South Korea's border island Ganghwa is being bombarded nightly with blood-curdling sounds, part of a new campaign by the nuclear-armed North that is driving residents to despair.
A Russian attack overnight hit a dormitory in the town of Glukhiv

Russia Says Ukraine Fired First US-long Range Missiles

Russia said Tuesday that Ukraine had fired US-supplied long-range missiles into its territory for the first time since Washington authorised such strikes as President Vladimir Putin issued a nuclear threat on the 1,000th day of the war.
Members of the media gather outside the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court in Hong Kong on Tuesday

Hong Kong To Sentence Dozens Of Democracy Campaigners

Hong Kong's largest national security trial will draw to a close on Tuesday, with dozens of the city's most prominent democracy campaigners set to be sentenced for subversion, a charge that can carry up to life imprisonment.

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