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Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platform’s transparency featureMany of the most influential personalities in the “Make America great again” (Maga) movement on X are based outside of the US, including Russia, Nigeria and India, a new transparency feature on the social media site has revealed.The new tool, called “about this account,” became available on Friday to users of the Elon Musk-owned platform. It allows anyone to see where an account is located, when it joined the platform, how often its username has been changed, and how the X app was downloaded. Continue reading...
Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platform’s transparency featureMany of the most influential personalities in the “Make America great again” (Maga) movement on X are based outside of the US, including Russia, Nigeria and India, a new transparency feature on the social media site has revealed.The new tool, called “about this account,” became available on Friday to users of the Elon Musk-owned platform. It allows anyone to see where an account is located, when it joined the platform, how often its username has been changed, and how the X app was downloaded. Continue reading...
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Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals
Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platform’s transparency feature
Health minister Ryan Park promises the two closures are ‘just the beginning’ as NSW tries to stem sharp rise in illicit cigarettes and vapesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo stores selling illicit tobacco in Sydney have been shut down, the first premises to be closed under new state laws cracking down on black market cigarettes and vapes.The stores on the city’s north shore have been shut down immediately for 90 days and the Minns government can now seek further court orders to close the outlets for 12 months. Continue reading...
Kaja Kallas to issue update this afternoon on progress countries are making towards becoming union memberSpeaking of the marking process, the civil rights group Liberties has also just published its assessment of the EU commission’s separate annual rule of law report, which looks at the union’s member states and their work in this area.In a scathing summary, the assessment found that the EU’s analysis “in key areas was even less comprehensive, with key issues neglected and no consequences for non-compliance with recommendations,” with some parts of the report literally “repeated verbatim, regardless of the level of progress, the seriousness of the violation, or the implications of continued inaction” from previous years. Continue reading...
Raids by rival hives aren’t rare after a dry, hot summer, but Christine McDonald was surprised to find her store besieged by beesA Canadian beekeeper has described fending off thousands of “robber bees” as they raided her shop in a brazen attempt to steal honey.Christine McDonald, who owns Rushing River Apiaries in the British Columbia city of Terrace, said she entered her shop to find it overrun by the swarm. Continue reading...
Temperatures in Lytton and Ashcroft climb to 40C, while a powerful hailstorm lashes Kansas and OklahomaA spate of extremely hot weather in British Columbia has broken Canada’s national maximum temperature record for September.On Tuesday, it reached 40C (104F) in Lytton, matching the previous all-time high. This is only the third time that temperature has been recorded in the country in September. Continue reading...
Two such groups claim they persuaded Alberta to institute sweeping public school book banSocially conservative “parents’ rights” groups that have emerged as powerfully political lobbying groups in the US are quickly gaining ground in Canada, academics and free speech advocates say, after two such groups claimed they had persuaded Alberta to institute a sweeping public school book ban.Alberta recently directed schools to purge library books from shelves that fit its definition of “explicit sexual content” by 1 October. If the policy is applied precisely as outlined, a host of books face being purged, including George Orwell’s 1984 due to passages in the text that discuss sexual intercourse and rape. Continue reading...
Rain helped cool Flat fire that destroyed homes in Oregon, while the Pickett fire has charred 10 sq miles of Napa countyA wildfire that destroyed four homes in central Oregon has started to stabilize, while a blaze in northern California wine country has so far spared some of the state’s most famous vineyards.Moisture helped the 1,200 firefighters battling Oregon’s Flat fire, but more work needed to be done, authorities said. Dry, hot weather had fueled a rapid expansion of the blaze across of rugged terrain in Deschutes and Jefferson counties since the fire began late Thursday. Continue reading...
Assessment suggests cost of project to store 700,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste could reach £54bnThe UK’s proposal for a new underground nuclear waste dump has been described as “unachievable” in a Treasury assessment of the project.Ministers have put new nuclear power at the centre of their green energy revolution. But the problem of what to do with 700,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste – roughly the volume of 6,000 doubledecker buses – from the country’s past nuclear programme, as well as future waste from nuclear expansion, has yet to be solved. Continue reading...
