May 4, 2025

Meta to drop fact-checking and switch to X-style "community notes"

Meta scraps fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the social networking giant will scrap fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram. The decision reverses Meta policies to stop misinformation, which US conservatives criticized over alleged censorship.…

2 months ago

Science & Tech

Will Brazil's ban on X mark a turning point for tech giants?

Elon Musk: The voice of the far right in Europe?

The FRANCE 24 Observers, in collaboration with Belgium's RTBF and France Info, has used data analysis techniques to categorise more than 15,000 of Elon Musk's posts on X. This edition sheds light…

2 months ago

Science & Tech

Hard decisions ahead in EU budget talks: What spending should the bloc prioritise?

The EU faces long and likely tortuous negotiations on its next big budget, as the current one runs out in 2027. Many say the bloc shouldn't have to choose between funding defence…

2 months ago

World

Bangladesh’s Monsoon Revolution is ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’: NCP’s Tasnim Jara

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Tasnim Jara, a senior figure in Bangladesh's new National Citizen Party, said that the July 2024 uprising that brought down then-leader Sheikh Hasina offers a "once…

2 months ago

World

Robert F Kennedy Jr. exits US presidential race, backs Trump

RFK Jr. vows to fight ‘chemtrails,’ a long-debunked conspiracy theory

"Chemtrails" are an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that's existed for decades, despite being consistently debunked by scientists. But with several US states looking to ban geoengineering, this conspiracy theory has escalated its way…

2 months ago

World

The Swedish gangs recruiting teenage hitmen

Criminal gangs in Sweden are increasingly recruiting young teens online to undertake deadly hit jobs, partially because they cannot be prosecuted as adults. In the city of Karlskoga, two cases involving an…

2 months ago

World

Tesla denies report that its board planned to replace Musk

Tesla chair Robyn Denholm has denied a Wall Street Journal report that the board had started looking for a new CEO to replace Elon Musk. It comes as Musk is stepping back…

2 months ago

Business

Apple says most iPhones sold in US will be from India

Apple has for years relied on Chinese factories to make its iPhones. But it's shifting some production to India to mitigate potential Trump tariffs.…

2 months ago

Science & Tech

‘We’ll make it home together’: Suzanne and Simone, a friendship at Ravensbrück camp

Eighty years ago, on April 29, 1945, the last SS troops fled the German camp of Ravensbrück, the largest Nazi concentration camp for women. Among those held there was Suzanne Bouvard, a…

2 months ago

World

China's economic challenges as Third Plenum gets underway

‘China Targets’: New investigation explores how Beijing extends its repression worldwide

China has instrumentalised the UN, Interpol and Western law enforcement to hunt down and intimidate government critics living abroad, according to a new worldwide investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative…

2 months ago

World

May 04, 2025

Meta scraps fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram

Elon Musk: The voice of the far right in Europe?

Hard decisions ahead in EU budget talks: What spending should the bloc prioritise?

Bangladesh’s Monsoon Revolution is ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’: NCP’s Tasnim Jara

RFK Jr. vows to fight ‘chemtrails,’ a long-debunked conspiracy theory

The Swedish gangs recruiting teenage hitmen

Tesla denies report that its board planned to replace Musk

Apple says most iPhones sold in US will be from India

‘We’ll make it home together’: Suzanne and Simone, a friendship at Ravensbrück camp

‘China Targets’: New investigation explores how Beijing extends its repression worldwide

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