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Australia announced on Friday that it would hold a parliamentary inquiry to look into the negative impacts of social media platforms, saying they have significant reach and control over what Australians see online, with almost no scrutiny.The government has criticised social media platforms for not being quick enough to remove violent posts and seeks more oversight over content posted on Meta's (META.O), opens new tab Facebook, ByteDance's TikTok and Elon Musk-owned X."Across a range of issues, whether it be the issue of domestic violence, whether it be the radicalisation of our young people, across a range of areas, something that keeps popping up over and over again is the role of social media," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters."(They) can be very positive but also can have a negative influence which is there."Albanese's Labor government is already in a legal fight with Musk's X over a regulatory order asking the platform to take down videos of the stabbing attack on an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney last month.The government said it was still determining the terms and scope of the inquiry and did not specify who it would ask to testify. Some Australian parliamentary inquiries have powers to summon individuals to hearings.
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Reductions in emissions of aerosols from Chinese factories may be partly to blame for recent heatwaves in the Pacific, a new study has said.The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that repeated marine heatwaves over the past decade could be linked to reduction in pollution from factories in China.Over the past decade, the north Pacific has experienced multiple such heatwaves – also known as "warm blob” events – leading to fish die-offs, toxic algae blooms and missing whales.Such heatwaves have been generally attributed to global warming though it is unknown exactly why it could cause such sudden and variable increases in a specific part of the planet.The research team of oceanographers and scientists from China, the US and Germany noted that the onset of the heatwaves appeared to follow successful efforts by the Chinese government to reduce aerosol emissions from their country's factories.Aerosols are small particles that are commonly emitted from burning coal and oil – they can act like mirrors floating in the air, reflecting heat from the sun back into space.Efforts to curb pollution can sometimes have a paradoxical effect of warming up areas nearby, due to the fact that tiny aerosol particles in the air can ‘reflect’ the sun’s heat back into space.
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Dr. Phil went to Jerusalem to interview Netanyahu. He asks how "complicit" ordinary Palestinians are in the activities of Hamas. Very much so, replies Netanyahu, claiming to have found portraits of Hitler and copies of Mein Kampf in their apartment buildings
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