COP27: South Africa’s tricky shift from coal
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak says Britain and France are in the ‘final stage’ of reaching a deal over migrant crossings, and cyber experts are worried about misinformation on Twitter during the US midterms elections. Plus, the FT’s David Pilling explains why, despite $8.5bn, South Africa is having a hard time moving away from coal.
Mentioned in this podcast:
UK and France in ‘final stage’ of reaching deal over Channel crossings, says Sunak
Cyber experts warn of Twitter misinformation risk on eve of US election
South Africa warns $8.5bn climate package risks fuelling debt burden
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk |
| 0:09.9 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:11.5 | Today is Tuesday, November 8th, and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:18.4 | Britain and France may be nearing a deal on migraine crossings. |
| 0:21.7 | Western powers had a big plan to fund South Africa's shift away from coal, |
| 0:26.1 | but no one really seems to be fired up about it. |
| 0:28.9 | Plus, we'll look at Elon Musk's overhaul of Twitter and the concerns that it raises in the |
| 0:33.7 | lead up to today's crucial U.S. midterm elections. I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you |
| 0:39.0 | need to start your day. |
| 0:47.8 | Voters head to the polls today to vote in the U.S. midterms, yet just days before this crucial |
| 0:53.5 | election, Twitter, where a lot of election talk happens, has fired half of its staff. |
| 0:59.0 | That includes 15% of Twitter's trust and safety team. Those are the people that screen hate speech |
| 1:04.7 | and misinformation. Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, made these cuts as part of an overhaul |
| 1:10.0 | of the company. The FT's Hanna Murphy has more. |
| 1:23.5 | Elon Musk has come out and said that he is not changing content moderation policies, |
| 1:36.5 | at least not yet. We know that longer term he wants to peel back permanent bans and allow anyone |
| 1:42.7 | who's previously been banned back onto the platform. We know that he wants to allow pretty much |
| 1:48.5 | all speech. He's described himself as a free speech absolutist, but for now he's saying he's |
| 1:54.2 | putting that on hold, and yet at the same time, we're obviously seeing this big reduction in |
| 1:59.7 | staff numbers who are used to oversee and make sure the platform is as healthy as possible. |
| 2:07.8 | There's also concern around Musk's plan to revamp Twitter's blue tick user verification system. |
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