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A video shows two North Korean teenage boys being sentenced to hard labor for watching K-dramas. AdvertisementRare video footage shows two teenage boys being sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for watching K-dramas, which are South Korean TV shows. In North Korea, viewing or distributing foreign media, especially from South Korea, is considered a serious offense. 🚨🇰🇵RARE FOOTAGE FROM NORTH KOREA: TEENS PUNISHED FOR WATCHING SOUTH KOREAN TVChilling footage from North Korea allegedly shows two teenage boys handcuffed in front of hundreds of students and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for watching South Korean 'K-dramas.' One North Korean defector told the BBC that punishment is harsher for watching South Korean media compared with other foreign media.
Persons: , 🚨🇰, CnEO6HL —, sy Organizations: Service, South, BBC Locations: Korean, North Korea, South Korean, South Korea
Social media has never felt more dangerous
  + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Social media should, by now, be a more reliable place to follow world events. AdvertisementAdvertisementOver the course of the last two days, millions have witnessed the Middle East's most sensitive conflict take its latest violent turn through social media. It's actually footage from the Syrian War posted online in 2020, per Sardarizadeh and a Community Notes response to the post. Thread: Online misinformation about the conflict between Hamas and Israel - day threeThis video doesn't show a salvo of rockets fired by Hamas towards Israel. X is almost 20 years old, older than some of the media outlets covering the conflict right now.
Persons: Elon Musk, , Shayan, Mario Nawfal, It's, — David Aaronovitch, Elon Organizations: Service, Hamas, BBC, Twitter, Elon Locations: Israel, Gaza, Chicago
Threads, Meta's app designed to compete with Twitter, has now appeared on the App Store. Meta's chief product officer previously said users were looking for a "sanely run" platform. Elon Musk fired that jibe back at Meta over its long list of users' data Threads will collect. Elon Musk returned a Meta executive's jibe back at the company as its Twitter competition app Threads, nears release. "Thank goodness they're so sanely run," Musk said of Meta this week, apparently sarcastically, in response to the news.
Persons: Elon Musk, We've, Musk, Mario Nawfal —, Jack Dorsey, Meta, Twitter, Dorsey, Insider's Kali Hays, Linda Yaccarino, It's, Dalai Organizations: Twitter, Meta, Oprah
Musk picks Vegas for Zuckerberg 'cage match' challenge
  + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Sheila Chiang | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
(Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP) (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images)Twitter owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested Vegas for the location of a "cage match" after reportedly being challenged to a fight by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Another user cautioned Musk saying, "Better be careful @elonmusk I heard he does the ju jitsu now." Zuckerberg reportedly has a white belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. That sparked a comment from Musk that suggested he is up for a fight with the Zuckerberg. The Verge tech publication confirmed that Zuckerberg is "serious about fighting Elon Musk and is now waiting on the details" if Musk decides to follow through.
Persons: Elon Musk, Porte, Alain JOCARD, ALAIN JOCARD, Mark Zuckerberg, Musk, Zuckerberg, Mario Nawfal, Dave Camarillo Organizations: SpaceX, Twitter, Porte de, Getty, Facebook, UFC, Blockchain Consulting, Meta, Guerilla Jiu Jitsu, CNBC Locations: Paris, AFP, Vegas
Elon Musk said during a Twitter Space that there was no "breaking point" which made him buy the company. Instead, Musk said that general concerns about free speech online motivated him to purchase Twitter. Musk made his first offer to buy Twitter at $43 billion around three weeks later. "Basically, just, we are traveling the path more and more of suppression of free speech. Musk has previously called himself a "free speech absolutist," but has a track record of silencing his own critics.
Sam Bankman-Fried says he's "trying to figure out" how to pay his lawyers, calling it a "concern." After FTX collapsed, Bankman-Fried's fortune plummeted from around $16 billion to "close to nothing." After FTX collapsed in November, Bankman-Fried's fortune plummeted from $16 billion to $1 billion, with Bloomberg putting the value of both FTX and sister company Alameda at just $1. When asked by Chet Long, chief security officer at International Blockchain Consulting, how he was paying his lawyers, Bankman-Fried said: "That's something I'm trying to figure out right now." In response to a question about whether he had the lawyers on retainer, Bankman-Fried said: "I can't go into the details."
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