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YouTube on Tuesday announced it is creating a new framework to crack down on medical misinformation on the platform.
“In the years since we began our efforts to make YouTube a destination for high-quality health content, we’ve learned critical lessons about developing Community Guidelines in line with local and global health authority guidance on topics that pose serious real-world risks, such as misinformation on COVID-19, vaccines, reproductive health, harmful substances, and more,” a blog post from the video-sharing site read. “We’re taking what we’ve learned so far about the most effective ways to tackle medical misinformation to simplify our approach for creators, viewers, and partners.”
The platform has faced controversy in recent years for its algorithm and the way it can direct viewers to misleading and extremist content. In 2021, YouTube said it removed more than 1 million videos related to “dangerous coronavirus information” since the beginning of the outbreak in the U.S.
YouTube said it will use three categories, “Prevention, Treatment and Denial” to sort the kinds of medical misinformation on the platform.
It will remove content that contradicts guidance from health authorities on the prevention and transmission of certain conditions, including vaccines. It will also take down content that contradicts guidance on treatments, including videos that tout unproven remedies in place of seeking care, and content that denies the existence of specific conditions, including COVID-19, according to YouTube.
The platform said its new policies “will apply to specific health conditions, treatments, and substances where content contradicts local health authorities or the World Health Organization (WHO).”
This includes content that promotes unproven treatments in place of approved care or as a guaranteed cure, and treatments that have been specifically deemed harmful by health authorities,” the post continued. “For instance, a video that claims ‘garlic cures cancer,’ or ‘take vitamin C instead of radiation therapy’ would be removed.”
The Utah senator is one of the most distinguished figures in the GOP — serving as a moderate Massachusetts governor, winning the party’s presidential nomination in 2012 and then serving in the Senate since 2019 as a check on Trumpism.
Consumer prices rose 3.7 percent in the year through August, marking another month of accelerating inflation. The Federal Reserve will closely parse the data as it prepares its next interest-rate decision.
Federal Reserve officials are likely to remain wary about the outlook for inflation following a report released Wednesday: Overall price increases sped up because of a pop in gas prices in August, and a more closely watched index that strips out volatile food and fuel prices climbed at a faster monthly pace than expected.
The Consumer Price Index rose 3.7 percent in the year through August, the report showed. That was both faster than the 3.2 percent July reading, and slightly quicker than the 3.6 percent that economists had expected.
Investment chiefs at two of the world’s largest asset managers have warned that the risk of a US recession is rising, even as government officials and a growing number of investors believe the Federal Reserve’s interest rate rises will not damage the economy significantly.
Top fund managers at BlackRock and Amundi told the Financial Times that while the US economy has largely looked resilient in the face of aggressive monetary tightening by the Fed, cracks are now appearing, notably in the labour market.
Jamie Dimon has sounded the alarm on a slew of headwinds buffeting the global economy, and cautioned that a recession and further interest-rate hikes could deal heavy blows to some consumers and businesses.
The billionaire banker and JPMorgan CEO also championed prudent risk management, and warned that more lenders could run into problems like Silicon Valley Bank did this spring. He quoted Warren Buffett, a longtime business associate, to make both points.
Rapid price increases hit household finances in 2022, cutting inflation-adjusted median income to $74,580
Baby boomers are finding themselves homeless in ever-increasing numbers, according to a new report, with rising rent prices and soaring medical bills forcing seniors from their homes and onto the streets.
Analysts at the Department of Housing and Urban Development told The Wall Street Journal the fastest-growing segment of the homeless population is people aged over 65.
The fact that we are seeing elderly homelessness is something that we have not seen since the Great Depression,' said Dennis Culhane, a University of Pennsylvania social policy professor.
The energy crisis triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine could push 141 million people worldwide into extreme poverty, according to a new report published Thursday in the journal Nature Energy.
Researchers from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, China and the United States modeled the impacts of increased energy prices in 116 countries and found household spending increased up to 4.8% on average, as coal and natural gas prices surged after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, adding to post-pandemic increases.
In low-income countries, the report said poorer households already facing severe food shortages were at greater risk of poverty due to higher energy costs.
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Tech giant Apple yesterday debuted its first-ever 'carbon neutral' products, revealing how a raft of technical innovations mean the new line up of its popular Apple Watch will deliver a 75 per cent reduction in emissions compared to previous models.
The company said the remaining emissions associated with the product would be offset using 'high-quality' carbon credits primarily sourced from nature-based projects that remove carbon from the atmosphere, such as initiatives to restore grasslands, wetlands, and forests.
Lisa Jackson, vice president of environment, policy, and social initiatives at Apple, hailed the product launch as "an important milestone" on the journey towards the company's goal of only selling 'carbon neutral' products by 2030.
"At Apple, we have a longstanding and proven commitment to leading the fight against climate change," she said. "Our focus on renewable energy and low-carbon design has already driven industry-leading emissions reductions, and we're not slowing down. We've achieved an important milestone in making the world's most popular watch carbon neutral - and we will keep innovating to meet the urgency of the moment."
The use of carbon offset credits to justify claims of product 'carbon neutrality' remain controversial in some quarters, but Apple insisted that it had put in place robust standards to ensure the projects it funds deliver promised carbon removals.
U.S. oil major Chevron Corp (CVX.N) on Tuesday said it has acquired a majority stake in the world's largest proposed storage facility for hydrogen from renewable energy.
ACES Delta is a joint venture between Mitsubishi Power Americas and Magnum Development. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Chevron wants to develop "a large-scale, hydrogen platform that provides affordable, reliable, ever-cleaner energy,” said Austin Knight, vice president of hydrogen, Chevron New Energies.
Hydrogen is seen as a key technology to meet the world's net zero emission ambitions by 2050 as it produces water vapor instead of greenhouse gas emissions when burnt as a fuel.
In a Tuesday column published in the Financial Times, Fatih Birol, the executive director for the IEA, posited that "the age of seemingly relentless growth" for fossil fuel demand is at the beginning of the end. The energy group's World Energy Outlook, to be released in October, points to an impending, historic turning point.
A peak in energy demand also means a peak in greenhouse gas emissions, the executive explained. The boom in clean energy technologies, including electric vehicles, will usher in a more energy-efficient era.
Working with more than a dozen major financial institutions and market infrastructures and Chainlink, a leading Web3 services platform, Swift has successfully demonstrated that it can provide a single point of access to multiple networks using existing, secure infrastructure, thereby significantly reducing operational challenges and investment required for institutions to support the development of tokenised assets.
The experiments are part of Swift’s wider strategy to ensure secure, global interoperability as new technologies and platforms emerge. They build on work over the past few years to show how Swift infrastructure could support the financial community in interconnecting Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and other digital assets with new and existing payments systems.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Central Bank of Kazakhstan and an unnamed central bank have integrated their infrastructure with SWIFT’s “CBDC connector solution” for direct testing, the company said.
The first phase of sandbox testing began in March with a lineup of over 18 participants, including Royal Bank of Canada, Banque de France, Société Générale, BNP Paribas, Monetary Authority of Singapore, HSBC, Deutsche Bundesbank and NatWest. The sandbox had over 5,000 transactions in the course of 12 weeks. Now, the number of participants will top 30.
The Bank for International Settlements and the central banks of Hong Kong and Israel released the results of Project Sela on Sept. 12. The project was a public-private partnership that used private intermediaries to create a retail central bank digital currency (rCBDC) combining the desirable characteristics of cash and the advantages of digitalization
Financial institutions are understood in the traditional sense of banks, credit unions and similar organizations. Thus, it does not lead to disintermediation. Project Sela rCBDC users would not have to be account holders to use the services of those institutions to convert an rCBDC to or from cash. Payments are settled by the central banks, and users control their money the whole time. The central bank participants are assumed to be the operators of the distributed ledger system.
Metaco is a Switzerland-based company that provides crypto custody services to financial institutions. This will allow Ripple to expand mass crypto adoption to financial institutions.
Also, recently, the blockchain giant spearheaded by Brad Garlinghouse announced that they are acquiring Fortress Trust, a financial institution that offers financial and technological, as well as regulatory, infrastructure for Web3.
With Metaco and Fortress Trust, Ripple now owns properties that can build the infrastructure for exchanges, companies, wallets and apps to connect to fiat rails, banks, trusts, retirement plans, etc., to tokenize real world assets and hold them in safe, compliant ways
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This may be a coincidence but Eugene Peltola, husband of Mary Peltola [D-Ark] has just died in a plane crash in Alaska.
Eugene Peltola Has Died in a Plane Crash in Alaska
The timing of this is very suspicious, especially considering that Biden was in Alaska as well. He has had a lot of years of experience in that state, where Hillary Clinton had some interesting experiences. Maybe he knew too much?
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The Subcommittee on Aviation has jurisdiction over all aspects of civil aviation, including safety, infrastructure, labor, commerce, and international issues. All programs of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) except for research activities, are within the purview of the Subcommittee.
The Aviation Subcommittee is also traditionally the lead subcommittee with jurisdiction over the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the federal agency responsible for investigating civil aviation accidents and other transportation accidents.
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