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Bluesky gets surge in users switching from X after US election | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Social media platform Bluesky says it has gained 700,000 new users in the week following the US election. Bluesky, which was originally conceived as part of Twitter by its former chief executive Jack Dorsey, says the new sign-ups are largely from the US and UK. The company has increased its membership from 9 million people…
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Climate fight is ‘bigger than one election’, says US climate envoy John Podesta, after Donald Trump’s election win | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The fight against climate change is “bigger than one election”, US envoy John Podesta has said. Mr Podesta was speaking at COP29 after his party lost the White House to Republican and climate sceptic Donald Trump. The re-election of Mr Trump, who is expected to again pull the United States out of global climate treaties…
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US election: Elon Musk summoned to court over $1m giveaways to registered voters | US News
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Elon Musk has been summoned to an emergency court hearing on Thursday over the $1m prizes he has been awarding registered voters in swing states. The Tesla and X chief executive has been ordered by a judge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to address a civil case by the city’s top prosecutor to stop Mr Musk and…
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TikTok bans Russian state media accounts over ‘covert influence operations’ ahead of US election | Science & Tech News
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TikTok has said it’s removed accounts associated with Russian state media for “engaging in covert influence operations”. It’s part of the site’s efforts to prevent disinformation in the run up to November’s US presidential election. Accounts affected are those from media group Rossiya Segodnya, which owns the RIA Novosti and Sputnik news services; and TV-Novosti,…
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US election: Iran was behind attempted hacks on Trump and Biden/Harris campaigns, FBI says | US News
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The US government has confirmed Donald Trump’s claim that Iran tried to hack his presidential campaign and said Tehran has also targeted the Biden-Harris operation. In a joint statement issued on Monday, the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it had seen “increasingly aggressive…
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General election: Conservatives fear Labour landslide, warning of ‘supermajority’ for Keir Starmer | Politics News
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A Tory social media campaign suggests the party fears a Labour landslide in the upcoming general election, as minister Grant Shapps says they are fighting to avoid a Labour “supermajority”. The Conservatives’ latest advertising campaign appears to target potential Reform voters, warning them that the Tories could be reduced to just 57 seats in the…
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General election 2024: ‘Auramancer Sunak’ and Starmer’s punches: How the young are engaging with election | UK News
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Rishi Sunak dressed as a purple wizard and Sir Keir Starmer’s feeble punches in a gym. These are the images teenagers are sharing in school on TikTok – all being pushed out by party campaign teams to target the young. For our Bench Across Britain series, we took our people’s parliamentary bench to Cardinal Newman…
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ChatGPT tells users Labour has already won the election | Science & Tech News
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ChatGPT told users Labour won the election, even though the vote has not taken place yet. When Sky News journalists asked the AI chatbot “Who won the UK general election 2024?”, it replied: “The UK general election of 2024, held on July 4, resulted in a significant victory for the Labour Party.” The chatbot, developed…
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Time running out for regulators to tackle AI threat ahead of general election, researchers warn | Science & Tech News
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Time is running out for regulators to tackle the threats posed by artificial intelligence (AI) to the democratic process ahead of July’s election, researchers have warned. However, the idea of deepfakes swinging the election should not be overblown as there is no clear evidence of an election result being affected by AI, they said. In…
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Labour and Conservatives spend big on early election campaign – here’s who they’re targeting | Politics News
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This is fast shaping up to be the biggest spending election ever – and already the Conservatives are spending their cash begging their voters not to defect to Reform. Take paid political adverts on Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook. Labour started strong and is still seriously outpacing the Conservatives. Sky News is partnering with…