Netflix’s new Western, The Harder They Fall, opens with an intriguing disclaimer: “While the events in this film are fictionalised… These. People. Existed.” Without it, viewers might assume the movie is an imaginary tale, one of several cases of Hollywood re-casting historical periods and events with more ethnic minority charactersContinue Reading
U.S. President Joe Biden talks with Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan and Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he attends the G20 leaders’ summit in Rome, Italy October 30, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Pool ROME, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies (G20) will endorse an OECD deal onContinue Reading
Washington has revoked the US licence of one of China’s biggest telecoms companies citing “national security” concerns. China Telecom must stop providing services in America within 60 days. Officials said the Chinese government’s control of the company gave it the opportunity “to access, store, disrupt, and/or misroute US communications”. ThisContinue Reading
Whistleblower Frances Haugen has told MPs Facebook is “unquestionably making hate worse”, as they consider what new rules to impose on big social networks. Ms Haugen was talking to the Online Safety Bill committee in London. She said Facebook safety teams were under-resourced, and “Facebook has been unwilling to acceptContinue Reading
Donald Trump says the government should get a cut from the sale of TikTok’s US unit if an American firm buys it. The US president said he made a demand for a “substantial portion” of the purchase price in a phone call at the weekend with Microsoft’s boss. He alsoContinue Reading