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X (formerly known as Twitter) which will be including the removal of date and time stamps from posts in the main timeline, reported Fortune. According to Fortune, this proposal has actually raised concerns among the staff regarding its potential to exacerbate misinformation as most of the users might lack the crucial context about the timing of posts. Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes that eliminating these timestamps could actually enhance the user interface, although at the same time, many employees worry that it could lead to confusion for casual users who typically scroll without clicking through to individual posts. In addition to this change, X plans to implement an $8 sign-up fee for the new users which could begin as early as the month of February, asserted Fortune. This fee aims to combat bots on the platform but has been eventually criticized as an unusual move for a social media service which traditionally relies on ad revenue from free users.

fact-checking operations after Meta's shock announcement that it will halt its US programme. Here are the key facts about how the practice has developed and what could lie ahead for the sector. Years of growth

A-list celebrities like John Goodman, Anthony Hopkins, and Billy Crystal have had their homes in the Pacific Palisades destroyed by fire. The toll on the entertainment industry grew as firefighters battled in vain Wednesday to stop the spread of a raging fire that destroyed the Pacific Palisades. Billy Crystal, Anna Faris, John Goodman, Anthony Hopkins, Eugene Levy, and Miles Teller were among the more than six celebrities who lost their homes in the community perched above the Pacific Ocean as a result of the Santa Ana wind-fueled fire by the afternoon, according to social media posts and Page Six reporting.

UN rights chief insisted Friday that regulating hate speech and harmful content online «is not censorship», days after Meta scrapped its fact-checking programme on Facebook and Instagram citing censorship concerns. «Allowing hate speech and harmful content online has real-world consequences. Regulating such content is not censorship,» Volker Turk said on X. «My Office calls for accountability and governance in the digital space, in line with human rights.»

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has been at loggerheads with the federal government since the general elections in February 2024. Several leaders of the PTI are currently in talks with the government and Khan on Wednesday said his party will participate in the third round of talks to help ease the political tension in the country. «There is a plan to impose a ten-year dictatorship in Pakistan, of which two years have already passed. Judges or police officers who become a party to oppression are rewarded with promotions here,» Khan said in a tweet on X on Thursday.

500 Indian currency notes being in circulation. While it could not be immediately verified how many of such fake Rs 500 currency notes are in circulation. However, this viral social media post highlights why it's a good idea to always check each and every feature of a currency note before using it. This will prevent you from falling victim to the fake currency note scam. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has published on its RBI Kehta Hai website detailed information about the features to check for in a real currency note.

The United Nations says the world economy resisted battering by conflicts and inflation last year and is expected to grow a subdued 2.8% in 2025

immigration policy: the H-1B visa for college-educated foreigners. Proponents say the visa is an essential but insufficient pipeline of global talent for hard-to-fill jobs — jobs that have long been part of the lifeblood of the American economy. Critics say visa holders are stealing jobs from American workers and driving down wages. The profanities both sides have lobbed across social media obscure their agreement that the H-1B program isn’t working as well as it should. Created in 1990, the H-1B is an employer-sponsored visa that authorizes foreigners with “highly specialized knowledge” to work in the US for up to six years. Tech companies and IT consultancies rank among the top recipients. Every year, a government lottery awards 65,000 slots to applicants with an undergraduate degree and another 20,000 to those with advanced degrees (universities and nonprofits are exempt from these caps). The private-sector allocation is typically filled within days. ALSO READ: TCS, Infosys & other Indian-origin tech firms corner 1/5th of H-1B visas issued by US

SN Subrahmanyan has stirred a debate on social media on work-life balance with his advocacy of 90-hour work weeks. In an undated video, which has gone viral on social media. Subrahmanyan seemed to dismiss the value of time spent at home, saying, «What do you do sitting at home? How long can you stare at your wife? How long can the wives stare at their husbands? Get to the office and start working.» He was advocating for working Sundays. During the recorded interaction, when questioned about mandatory Saturday work at L&T, Subrahmanyan said, «I regret I am not able to make you work on Sundays, to be honest. If I can make you work on Sundays, I will be more happy, because I work on Sundays also.» Also Read: ‘How long can you stare at your wife?’: L&T chief advocates 90-hour work week

Elon Musk on Thursday revealed an unusual «problem» in his personal life on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO shared a candid photo of his bed side table, which appeared to be a mini shrine to his favorite beverage—Diet Coke. The image shows several cans of Diet Coke cluttered on the nightstand, along with a glass of water and a set of headphones resting on the table. A pair of black boots can be seen placed beside his bed side table. Musk captioned the post with a cheeky remark: “I have a drinking problem.”

Infosys, has come forward to take up the ambitious skill census program to take forward in a more beneficial way to improve the employment opportunities in the state by providing necessary technical assistance, a statement said. For pre-certification of the skills of the candidates as part of the skill census, Infosys, regardless of financial resources, has come forward to provide a digital platform through generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Andhra Pradesh Skill Development Corporation (APSDC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Infosys in the presence of the Minister for Education, Information Technology (IT) and Electronics, Nara Lokesh, here on Friday, a statement said. In a statement, it's mentioned that it is commendable that Infosys has come forward for data pre-validation under corporate social responsibility, Lokesh said. This will certainly make it easy to impart skill development training to the youth as per the market demand after assessing their talent, the minister felt.

Tesla launched a new version of the Model Y, its best-selling car, in China on Friday, hoping that a redesigned exterior and upgraded features inside will help it regain market share taken by rivals such as Xiaomi.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It was known all along that Elon Musk, the billionaire acquirer of Twitter (later rebranded X), was against the moderation of posts on social media, preferring to let comments call out fake news and the like.

Meta has decided to do away with the third-party fact-checking programme in the US and will instead rely onuser-generated community notes to cross-check and establish the veracity of content on its platforms.

The late New York Sen_ Daniel Patrick Moynihan put it this way decades ago: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”

Two hundred Utah ski patrollers have ended a nearly two-week strike and returned to work at the biggest ski resort in the U.S. The union representing Park City Mountain Resort ski patrollers is claiming victory after voting Wednesday to accept a deal n...

Richard Hammond, the 55-year-old television presenter known for hosting motoring shows such as Top Gear and The Grand Tour, has announced that he and his wife, Amanda «Mindy» Hammond, are separating after 28 years together. The couple, who married in 2002, have two daughters, Izzy and Willow.