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Facebook and TikTok failed to block advertisements with “blatant” misinformation about when and how to vote in the US midterms, as well as about the integrity of the voting process, according to a new report from human rights watchdog Global Witness and the Cybersecurity for Democracy Team (C4D) at New York University. In an experiment, the researchers submitted 20 ads with inaccurate claims to Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. The ads were targeted to battleground states such as Arizona and Georgia. While YouTube was able to detect and reject every test submission and suspend the channel used to post them, the…

Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk attends the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China August 29, 2019.Aly Song | ReutersTesla founder and CEO Elon Musk thinks the global economic decline could last for another year and a half.In a Twitter exchange early Friday morning Eastern time, the mercurial electric car executive and world’s richest man said a recession could continue “until spring of ’24.”The remarks came in response to a tweet from Shibetoshi Nakamoto, the online name for Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus, who noted that current coronavirus numbers “are actually pretty low. i [sic] guess all we have to…

Richard Moore, 76, and his wife have been left heart-broken as they are forced to demolish their £2 million cliff-top home, that is unsafe to live in due to risks of being swept away by the sea. A couple have been forced to demolish their £2 million clifftop holiday home before it falls into the sea. Richard Moore, 76, and his wife have been told by council officials that their home is unsafe to live in due to risks of it being swept away by coastal erosion. The couple lost at least 50ft of their back garden in the last…

You can be the winner of the big globe at the World Cup, a skier with 34 victories, a serious candidate for best in the world, a monster both physically and mentally, and yet have a disaster of a season. This is what happened to Alexis Pinturault in the 2021-22 season. No victory, three podiums and a failed Olympics convinced him that his approach was not the right one after he reached the holy grail 18 months ago. Pinturault took stock, understood what he had to change and now hopes to slowly become who he was once again. Since numbers…

Lady Gaga has been keeping a low profile since she wrapped her Chromatica tour, but the conceptual performer was not about to let the likes of a Kardashian overshadow her as Halloween approaches. The artistic dresser, who once cocooned herself in a Hussein Chalayan egg for three days, engaged goth-girl mode in LA last night as she partied with Dom Perignon.Showing the champagne brand what modern Morticia glamour looks like, Gaga wore an off-the-shoulder LBD with ripped tights and her signature Pleaser stripper boots. With her foundation intentionally two shades paler, her eye make-up heavy and her hair parted into…

Boris Johnson is one of the leading contenders vying for the job as U.K. prime minister despite having been ousted from office just three months ago upon losing the support of his own party, reports said Friday.Conservative lawmakers in the U.K. faced a renewed crisis this week when Liz Truss resigned as prime minister Thursday after filling the role for just 44 days.UK PRIME MINISTER LIZ TRUSS RESIGNS AFTER LESS THAN 2 MONTHS IN OFFICE Despite leaving office amid a series of scandals like “partygate” and the mass resignation of several top officials over allegations of sexual misconduct involving his…

Welcome to this week’s edition of the FT’s Cryptofinance newsletter. Today, we’re taking a look at JPMorgan hiring a former Celsius lobbyist. The revolving door in Washington between government and private sector, and adversaries, is a fact of life but every so often, one move comes along that causes an intake of breath.This week JPMorgan Chase hired Aaron Iovine, a former executive from crypto lending platform Celsius Network, as its new executive director for digital assets regulatory policy. Yes, the US’s largest bank by market capitalisation was hiring the chief lobbyist from a company that froze customer assets and filed…

U.S Treasury yields rose further on Friday as investors digested the need for further interest rate hikes to curb inflation.Photo by Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesEven though Latinos are the second-largest ethnic group in the U.S., they’re underrepresented across many industries, including finance, which can have long-term effects on the ability to grow wealth.A group of Latino-led and focused venture capital firms is looking to change that.There are more than 62 million Hispanic or Latino people in the U.S., according to the 2020 Census. That’s nearly 19% of the total population, second only to non-Hispanic…

Only nine undefeated FBS teams are still standing. Five suffered their first blemishes last weekend, including now-No. 3 Alabama, now-No. 7 USC, now-No. 8 Oklahoma State and now-No. 10 Penn State. The Crimson Tide lost on a last-second field goal. The Trojans lost on a last-minute two-point conversion. The Cowboys lost in double-overtime. Five more games between ranked teams will be played this weekend, including the first top-10 matchup between Pac-12 teams in nearly six years. But the only battle of unbeatens features Syracuse, as we all expected. The No. 14 Orange, who will play at Clemson on Saturday, are…