... 65 points to close at 33804. The Nasdaq rose nearly 97 points. The S&P 500 was up 18. Still to come on the "NewsHour": how misinformation about the war in Israel is spreading rampantly on social media; and the Supreme Court considers a racial gerrymandering case in South Carolina.
... that the amendment would allow abortions to happen in the final stages of pregnancy, despite such procedures being rare and generally involving life-threatening situations. Misinformation has also swirled around the campaign. Sam Zern, a regional field organizer for Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights and a graduate student at Kent ...
... the latest war between Israel and Hamas. X said it’s treating the crisis with its highest level of response. But outside watchdog groups say misinformation about the war abounds on the platform that billionaire Elon Musk bought last year. Musk himself has recommended unreliable accounts posting about the war ...
... a lawsuit pending against a number of news organizations, among them The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy took leave from the group when he announced his run for president but is listed ...
... doesn't have a rule specific to AI-generated political ads but has a policy restricting "faked, manipulated or transformed" audio and imagery used for misinformation. A more recent bipartisan Senate bill, co-sponsored by Klobuchar, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri and others, would go farther in banning "materially ...
... enough for a plane ticket to return home?" The heat grew so intense that the Memphis Zoo released a statement responding to what it called "misinformation" about its pandas and stating that Ya Ya has "a chronic skin and fur condition" that "makes her hair look thin and patchy" and ...
There's also the question of how to engender innovation and hoped-for breakthroughs — in medicine, disaster prediction, energy efficiency and more — without exacerbating inequities and misinformation or, worse, enabling runaway-robot calamity. That sci-fi scenario started sounding a lot less far-fetched when hundreds of tech leaders and ...
... News following numerous credible allegations of sexual harassment. Lachlan Murdoch has drawn criticism from media watchdogs for what many called Fox News' increasingly conspiratorial and misinformation-promoting broadcasts. The network hit a nadir following the 2020 election when voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox News for $1.6 ...
... last week, “I don’t know where the 40 percent came from.” Mark Reuss, president of General Motors, characterized some of the UAW rhetoric as “misinformation” in an opinion essay for the Detroit Free Press, and wrote that GM had delivered a “record offer” that “rightly rewards our team members ...
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