Controversial world-first social media ban for children under 16 puts Australia on collision course with Big Tech
Countries including France and some US states have passed laws to restrict access for minors without a parent’s permission, but the Australian ban is absolute. A full under-14s ban in Florida is being challenged in court on free speech grounds.
Trump’s resounding victory has reduced pollsters in US to idle peddlers of gossip, unreliable
Vanderbilt University political scientist Josh Clinton, who led a taskforce analysing how surveys performed in the 2020 election cycle, said he was worried that the apparent mismeasurement could amplify its possible cause: public distrust of polling and of political institutions writ large.
A little dystopian: World’s billionaires pour money into changing biology of cows to reduce methane, veterinary dismiss it as ‘unnecessary’
Crop scientist and regenerative farmer Howard Vlieger says such a vaccine could be damaging to cows because it is being designed to target the organisms living in cows’ digestive system – organisms the animals need to digest fibre.
Ukraine uses US-supplied ATACMS missiles to hit Russian territory as Kyiv marks 1,000 days in trenches
Military experts say US missiles can help Ukraine defend a pocket it has captured as a bargaining chip inside Russia but are not likely to change the course of the 33-month-old war.
Nairobi, Kigali Africa lead to green energy switch as continent looks to bridge skills gap in labour market
One factor in Africa’s struggle to accelerate green industrial development is that the level of technical skills training is generally poor across the continent, especially outside a handful of higher-income countries.
After months of censorship study showing most Covid deaths occurred within a week of vaccination is published
The authors concluded that because the deaths were highly consistent with the known mechanisms for Covid-19 vaccine injury, it was highly likely the deaths were causally linked to the vaccine.
Big Tech critic Brendan Carr picked to chair US Federal Communications Commission
Carr was a strong opponent of the FCC’s decision in April to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules that were repealed during the first Trump administration. The Biden FCC rules were put on hold by a federal appeals court.
‘Biden’s waiver of restrictions on use of US long range missiles in Ukraine war is too little, too late’
There also is no way to know how long the new policy will last. It was criticised by Richard Grenell, one of the closest foreign policy advisors of returning president Donald Trump, who replaces Biden on Jan. 20. Trump has long criticised the scale of US aid to Kyiv and has vowed to end the war quickly, without saying how. A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Doctors query Gates-funded self-amplifying bird flu vaccine, term it ‘disaster waiting to happen’
According to Karl Jablonowski, senior research scientist at Children’s Health Defence, “Arcturus’ self-replication platform has all the hazards of the other synthetic modified mRNA wrapped in a lipid nanoparticle, just much worse.
How US doctor accused of funding Covid lab manufacture lives lavishly, enjoys state security
Dr Anthony Fauci $15 million does not include the costs associated with his personal security from April 2020 to December 2022, which was handled by the same parties while he was still serving in government.
