SYDNEY, Jan 10, 2024 (AFP) – Elon Musk’s X has shed more than 1,000 staff globally from teams responsible for stopping abusive content online, according to new figures released Thursday by Australia’s online watchdog. Australia’s eSafety Commission said these “deep cuts” and the reinstatement of thousands of banned accounts had created a “perfect storm” for the spread of harmful content. The regulator has in recent months zeroed in on X — formerly known as Twitter […]
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Slow bleed: Trump aide Hicks the latest to leave White House
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump lost another close aide Wednesday, when White House Communications Director Hope Hicks announced she was leaving. The turnover among Trump’s staff has been inordinately high since he became president on January 20, 2017, and Hicks was the fourth communications director to depart. Here are the main Trump aides who have come and already gone in the first 13 months of his presidency: National Security Adviser Michael Flynn […]
Two China media staff still held after Xi ‘resign’ call: letter
by Tom HANCOCK BEIJING, China (AFP) — A Chinese media outlet that carried a call for President Xi Jinping to resign has been shut down and two of its staff have been detained for more than 100 days, according to a social media post Friday. Wujie News website in March published an anonymous letter accusing the Chinese leader of a litany of policy mistakes and asking him to step down for the good of the […]





