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Hamas on Israel, social media platforms are still caught in the maelstrom, struggling to control content and withstand user fury. TikTok and X, formerly Twitter, were swept up in controversies this week, one involving an unearthing of a two-decade old screed by Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States. Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is also facing pushback from users accusing the company founded by Mark Zuckerberg of over-censorship of pro-Palestinian content. The problems have cast a harsh light on content moderation policies at the big platforms after a big cost-cutting campaign last year saw trust and safety teams gutted. For TikTok, the risks are real as it faces a threat to be outright banned in the United States, under suspicion that its powerful algorithm is ultimately under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. Those calls were renewed when it emerged on Thursday that videos promoting bin Laden's «Letter to America» went viral, 22 years after he wrote it. Bin Laden's deeply anti-American writing explained his reasons for masterminding plane attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people. Searches for the letter were eventually banned by TikTok which minimized the reach of the videos.

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Drake, the globally acclaimed hip-hop artist from Toronto, Canada reportedly dissed Joe Budden, a former New York-based rapper in one his songs from his latest album “For All The Dogs Scary Hours Edition” which was released today. In a newly added track called “Stories About My Brother” Drake was heard saying in the lyrics that he had to imagine getting “validation” from a former musician who is searching for “recognition,” a line that is reportedly aimed at Budden. Fans speculated that Budden might be a topic about whom Drake is talking about in his new album that is a deluxe edition of “For All The Dogs” which was released in October this year. Due to this speculation Budden also started trending on X (formerly Twitter). As per reports, Budden gave his review about Drake’s “For All The Dogs” album on his podcast, comments which the rapper apparently did not like. Budden stated that although he liked some of the tracks from the album, Drake could have done better on the track called “First Person Shooter” which also featured fellow rapper J Cole. This criticism didn’t go down well with Drake.

BharatPe cofounder Ashneer Grover and his wife Madhuri Jain were stopped at the Indira Gandhi International Airport Thursday on the basis of a look-out circular (LoC) issued against the two. The couple was travelling to New York, sources in the know told ET. The LoC was opened against the two at the request of the Economic Offences Wing (EoW) of the Delhi Police. Earlier in May, the EOW registered an FIR against the couple and some other family members for alleged misappropriation of funds and causing losses worth Rs 81 crore to Resilient Innovations Private Limited, which runs BharatPe.

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with a lawsuit accusing him of raping and sex trafficking a young R&B performer for more than a decade.The bombshell filing, first reported by the New York Times, alleges that Combs controlled and abused singer Cassie for more than a decade, plying her with drugs, abusing her and forcing her to have sex with multiple male sex workers while he videotaped the encounters.Cassie, whose real name is Casandra Ventura, met Combs in 2005 when she was just 19, the lawsuit says. The pair started dating and allegedly it wasn’t long before the rap mogul began a pattern of control and abuse.In 2018, the suit says, Combs forced his way into her home and raped her.

Three men have been arrested for an elaborate conspiracy that drained $10 million from banks across the New York City metropolitan area, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, announced today.

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Andrew Yang, former candidate for United States president and New York City mayor and founder of the Forward Party, had sobering observations about the uses of blockchain, or its lack of use, in the United States and U.S. regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) when he spoke Nov. 16 at the North American Blockchain Summit (NABS) in Fort Worth, TX.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney agreed Thursday to pay six states $6.5 million to settle charges that it failed to protect customers’ personal information while shutting down two data centers in 2016.

NEW YORK (Reuters) — A U.S. court on Thursday sentenced an Israeli private detective to 6-2/3 years in prison for organizing global hacking campaigns against thousands of people including climate change activists and critics of German company Wirecard.

Shares of Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holding plunged as much as 10% in New York after it said Thursday it scrapped plans to spin off its cloud business because of uncertainties related to U.S. chip restrictions

The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), the authority that supervises and regulates activities of financial institutions in the State of New York, has released a guidance that regulate the listing and delisting of cryptocurrencies.

Guidelines for firms listing and delisting cryptocurrencies in New York have tightened up to better protect investors, according to the state’s financial regulator.

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The Federal Trade Commission says it issued warnings to two food and beverage industry groups, as well as to a dozen online influencers and dieticians for failing to adequately disclose paid social media posts that promoted a sweetener and sugary products

New York state has sued PepsiCo in an effort to hold the soda-and-snack food giant partly responsible for litter that winds up in bodies of water that supply the city of Buffalo with drinking water

A proposed ban on noncompete agreements has come under a fierce attack by business groups in New York

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