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Restore the blue badges –

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

NEW YORK (EFE).— Social network X has begun restoring free of charge the blue check badges that verify the most influential accounts, a feature that had been reserved for paying subscribers since Elon Musk bought the company a year and a half ago.

It’s a new twist that the billionaire teased last week with a post in which he said accounts with more than 2,500 “verified subscribers” — a concept he didn’t clarify and that caused confusion, according to comments — would get paid X services for free.

Musk bought the company (formerly called Twitter) in October 2022 and soon following introduced one of his most controversial changes: Twitter Blue, or X Premium, a subscription model that allowed anyone to pay for the blue verification badge previously linked to trustworthiness and public interest.

That attempt to monetize the social network backfired on Musk, as many users who had the badge, including media outlets and celebrities, said they were not willing to pay, and now seeing their accounts adorned with the symbol, they took the opportunity to complain and joke.

“What is this random blue badge that I didn’t ask for or pay for?” wrote TV lawyer Katie Phang, to which actor Mark Hamill replied: “People: please don’t judge me by my free blue badge,” while others considered it a return to the symbol’s “original” function.

The new change to X comes days following Musk lost a legal battle once morest the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which he sued for publishing a report on the rise of hate speech on the platform under the entrepreneur’s command.

Musk, who bought the platform with the aim of turning it into a kind of uncensored public forum and proclaimed himself a defender of freedom of expression, was accused by the judge who dismissed the lawsuit of wanting to censor the CCDH.

#Restore #blue #badges #Diario #Yucatán
2024-07-18 21:34:55

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The House of Advisors approves the 2022 Liquidation Bill.. Details

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

Agadir24 | Agadir24/A.M.E

The House of Advisors approved, during a legislative session held yesterday, Tuesday, July 17, 2024, by majority, the liquidation bill No. 09.24 related to the implementation of the Finance Law for the fiscal year 2022.

The draft law was supported by 37 parliamentary advisors, while three advisors opposed it, and three others abstained from voting.

In an introductory speech to the draft law, the Minister Delegate to the Head of Government, in charge of Relations with Parliament, Government Spokesman, Mustapha Baitas, stressed that the provisions of this text aim to “fix the final results of the implementation of the 2022 Finance Law, which is the first finance law of this government,” noting “the exceptional circumstances in which this law was implemented, which were mainly characterized by successive crises and increasing geopolitical tensions at the international level, which had a negative impact on the growth of the global economy, which did not exceed 3.5 percent, and on purchasing power in various parts of the world.”

The government official added that the national context was also marked by “a drought season considered among the most severe in the last four decades, during which the highest annual inflation rate in more than thirty years was recorded, reaching 6.6 percent.”

Mr. Baitas stressed that the government, under the insightful and wise leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, has succeeded in confronting these pressures, managing the successive crises associated with them, and limiting their economic and social repercussions, through adopting effective policies based on two main complementary dimensions: the first of which is proactive and urgent, and is based on confronting these circumstantial constraints through immediate intervention to mitigate their direct repercussions on the national economy and on the daily living standards of citizens, and the second is structural and long-term, and aims to continue implementing the major strategic reforms necessary to achieve comprehensive development.

In this context, Mr. Baitas stated that the government has mobilized the necessary resources to finance various expenses related to the measures, namely mobilizing 40 billion dirhams to cover exceptional expenses, which were not scheduled in the 2022 Finance Law in order to support citizens’ purchasing power, such as subsidizing the prices of basic commodities, electricity, and transportation related to goods and people, and mobilizing 19 billion dirhams to pay tax payments.

The Minister stated that investment expenditure issues under the general budget amounted to regarding 96 billion dirhams, an increase of 14 billion dirhams compared to 2021. While investment issues in 2022 reached their record level, at 83 percent.

He stressed that the government was keen to maintain the sustainability of public finances by reducing the budget deficit from 7.1 percent in 2020 to 5.5 percent in 2021, and then to 5.4 percent in 2022, “which are exceptional results given the extent of the pressures faced.”

The Minister Delegate considered that the achievement of these achievements was contributed to by the positive dynamics recorded in the collection of regular resources, which increased by more than 45 billion dirhams, equivalent to an increase estimated at 17.3 percent compared to the year 2021, thanks to the increase in tax resources by an estimated 38 billion dirhams, i.e. an achievement rate of 113 percent compared to the expectations of the Finance Law.

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2024-07-18 21:28:54

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Priest and Ap politician Odd Kristian Reme has died

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

Reme died following a short illness on Wednesday evening, writes Stavanger Aftenblad.

He was a politician in the Labor Party, where he sat on the central board for eleven years (2000–2011). In three local elections (1999, 2003 and 2007) he was the Stavanger Labor Party’s mayoral candidate.

He was also a priest in the Norwegian Church and, among other things, led the Church’s City Mission in Stavanger for eight years. He also had a strong commitment to Palestine.

Nationally, Reme distinguished himself in his work for the next of kin following the Alexander Kielland accident in 1980, where he himself lost his brother Rolf.

In recent years, he was particularly involved as head of the Kielland network, which worked to establish a new and independent investigation into the accident.

Prime Minister and Ap leader Jonas Gahr Støre says that he, and the Labor Party, receive the message regarding Reme’s passing with sadness.

– Odd Kristian “Kian” Reme was a very socially committed and prominent politician. I had a good and open relationship with him, says Støre to NTB.

He particularly highlights Kian’s social commitment, both when it came to the Kielland accident and the safety of oil workers, but also his commitment to the cause of the Palestinians.

– My thoughts go out to his family.

#Priest #politician #Odd #Kristian #Reme #died
2024-07-18 21:23:53

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Indiya of contempt of court action against jail authorities for obstructing Imran Khan’s meetings – Pakistan

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan of the Islamabad High Court has indicated to take contempt of court proceedings once morest the Adiala Jail authorities for obstructing the jail meetings of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder chairman Imran Khan.

Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan of Islamabad High Court heard the petition filed by founder PTI Imran Khan for meetings with the lawyers.

Superintendent Adiala Jail submitted the list of jail meetings of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

During the hearing, Imran Khan’s lawyer, Advocate Shoaib Shaheen, told the court that let us see the list, where the jail hearing meetings were not included in it, the leaders, including our two opposition leaders, were not kept standing for 4 hours. Although the court had ordered to make SOP of meetings twice a week.

The Advocate General said that the lawyers who represented the founder PTI in the cases did not come, the politically active lawyers came to meet Imran Khan while the people who went to Adiala Jail demanded that they all be met together. .

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Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan remarked that there are more than 200 cases registered once morest Imran Khan, all these are cases with political results, you are trying to show that all these are real cases.

Justice Sardar Ijaz Ishaq further said that the central lawyers will meet and give instructions to the lawyers appearing in the courts, to which Advocate Shoaib Shaheen said that our vehicles are parked one and a half kilometers behind the jail.

The lawyer said that a big glass has been placed between Imran Khan and the meeting people, they cannot take any document, they have to speak loudly.

Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq remarked that this is not acceptable at all, we cannot stop viewing any document, if this is done in the future, I will issue notices for contempt of court, it is tantamount to obstructing the process of justice.