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🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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A short proactive news report covering the hottest current topics of the day. Here is what we need to know and why.
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0:00.0 | B All right, welcome everyone to today's what you need to know. |
0:24.0 | Apologies for the hour bump, though there were some technical difficulties |
0:29.2 | thanks to the snow. |
0:31.4 | Now, first things first, we're on the X platform platform so let's talk X platform. The Digital Services |
0:38.7 | Act according to the European Commission has been violated. Therefore, the President of the EU Council |
0:45.3 | has decided to file formal proceeding against acts under the Digital Services Act, |
0:51.0 | because it believes that the platform is not doing enough to combat |
0:54.3 | illegal content and information manipulation. |
0:58.1 | It's like X forgot to clean up after its Digital House Party. |
1:02.1 | Now the Commission is particularly concerned about |
1:04.0 | excess efforts to address illegal contact up and get this disinformation. I guess |
1:09.5 | Elon is not banning enough and not sticking with the narrative enough. |
1:13.8 | So they've decided to file a lawsuit against X funny, |
1:19.5 | how none of them decided that they needed |
1:21.2 | to combat child pornography that used to run rampant |
1:25.1 | on Twitter but I digress. |
1:27.7 | In other news it is important to understand that the financial markets are looking a kind of |
1:32.0 | iffy and a little bit weird. |
1:34.4 | See the Bank of Japan was set to make a decision today on its policy and it did. |
1:41.2 | Its decision was to maintain a negative interest rate. Yes, you heard that correctly. A negative |
1:46.6 | interest rate. And the reason a country would set a 0.1 minus 0.1 interest rate, course is to stimulate economic growth and if a |
1:57.4 | country is facing recession or significant economic slowdown they might believe that injecting more money |
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