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New Delhi, December 30: Leading music streaming platform Spotify found itself in a controversy when some users saw sexually-explicit material in search results on the platform. According to a report in The Verge on Monday, a Reddit user posted a screenshot of a Spotify search that had “a pornographic video tucked into suggested results for the rapper M.I.A”. A Spotify spokesperson told The Verge that such content "has been removed due to violation of its policies". According to the music streaming platform’s content moderation policies, it removes content that contains sexually explicit material. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra 5G Price Drops Ahead of Launch of Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra 5G in January 2025; Check Discounts, Offers and Other Benefits Here. Recent posts on Reddit have shown examples of “unexpected explicit video in search results” on Spotify and “even erotic audio tracks being suggested in one user’s Discovery Weekly algorithmic playlist”. A Vice story in 2022 had claimed that there was “a surprising amount of people who’ve tried to upload hardcore sex images on Spotify”. According to reports, the app has a setting to block explicit content playback in users’ profiles, but even with it turned on, these searches evade that filter. Spotify’s terms of use forbid ”pornography or visual depictions of genitalia or nudity presented for the purpose of sexual gratification.” The music streaming platform was launched in 2008. Today, more listeners than ever can discover, manage and enjoy over 100 million tracks, 6 million podcasts titles, and 350,000 audiobooks a la carte on Spotify. “We are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with more than 640 million users, including 252 million subscribers in more than 180 markets,” according to the company. Google CEO Sundar Pichai Prepares Employees for 2025, Tells Them Company Will Focus on ‘Gemini’ AI Model Amid Regulatory Challenges, Fierce Competition: Report. Spotify’s global premium subscriber base grew to just over 252 million paying users for the third quarter of 2024 (ended September 30). The total global monthly active users (MAUs) grew 11 per cent on-year to 640 million in Q3 2024. (The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Dec 30, 2024 10:42 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com ).Nigerian Bank Customers Pay N133.89bn in Electronic Money Transfer Levy (EMTL) in Eight Months
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Governor Newsom and most democratic lawmakers are preparing to protect California's progressive policies in the courts like they did during the first Trump administration. "California won 80% of those lawsuits, so this is a man who has no issues violating the law and we want to send a very clear message not just to Donald Trump but the people of California that we have people's back here in California," State Senator Scott Wiener said. "Of course, we should and we will work with the President-elect on areas where we agree and there are always going to be some agreements. It's not about fighting for the sake of fighting." This time, lawmakers anticipate there will be more on the list of possible lawsuits. "It could be things like climate action, reproductive freedom, civil rights, immigrant families. But also one part of this, that is important as well is protecting California taxpayers," Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel said. MORE: Newsom asks state legislature for $25M legal defense fund before Trump takes office Protecting California taxpayers means that if Californians pay their share of taxes to the federal government, then President-elect Trump should not withhold any kind of federal disaster funds as he threatened to do last October. On the flip side, one may argue that necessity is the mother of "political innovation." New York State Senator Liz Krueger recently suggested some liberal Northeast states could withhold billions of dollars in federal taxes if President-elect Trump goes through with his plans for mass deportations. California already gets back less in federal taxes than it pays. 2022 data reveals that California and 12 other states received proportionately less in federal funds. That means California and the other wealthier states are subsidizing the rest of the states. In Fiscal year 2022, California sent about $692 billion to the federal government and only got back around $620 billion in federal funds, which is about a $72 billion deficit. MORE: Newsom meets with Biden as part of effort to 'Trump-proof' California By comparison, that is about three times the state's $27 billion 2023-24 budget deficit. We've known about this deficit for some time because, in 2003, then-Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger complained that the federal funding system was unfair and that he would fight for that money. He was quoted then as saying, "For each dollar that we pay, we only get 77 cents back. So there's a lot of money we can get from the federal government." Would California lawmakers today have the political will to intensify it's pressure on the Trump administration? "I think if you are going to start threatening the federal government with withholding, demanding that individuals withhold their federal taxes, that isn't a rhetoric that doesn't actually work well. You don't want to to be in that battle," said Corey Cook, Provost at Saint Mary's College. John Perez was Speaker of the Assembly near the end of Schwarzenegger's administration and says there are ways to get more money for California. "One of the things that I think are going to be the most successful strategies to draw down more federal money is to keep more here at home," Perez said. "How do we do that? We do that by working on a bipartisan basis to overturn the limits on deductibility of California state and local taxes." MORE: A look at change in Silicon Valley as tech industry shifts to support Trump Tax reforms passed last time President Trump was in office limited tax deductions to $10,000. He has indicated he may reverse those limits on things like the cap on your mortgage interest deduction. Voters have also indicated they want government to work for them and as the national election showed us, here in California there was voter frustration over some of the state's progressive policies. That's one reason why Republicans gained ground in almost all counties in the state. "Our constituents, they don't feel that the state of California is working for them," said the new Speaker of the California Assembly, Robert Rivas. Rivas suggested that we set certain issues aside and focus on charting a new path forward and renew the California dream by focusing on affordability. "They're anxious because they feel it, they feel it at the grocery stores, where they have to pay their bills, they feel it every time they fill up their gas tanks for their long commutes from work to home," he said. "The democratic party has not effectively addressed the rising costs of living, has not addressed economic concerns," Cook said. "So certainly if you are going to talk about the agenda for the legislature, for the coming year, addressing affordability, the cost of living, housing, those related set of issues that we know are priorities for voters is critical for the legislature to address."
Social media users are misrepresenting a report released Thursday by the Justice Department inspector general's office, falsely claiming that it's proof the FBI orchestrated the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The watchdog report examined a number of areas, including whether major intelligence failures preceded the riot and whether the FBI in some way provoked the violence. Claims spreading online focus on the report's finding that 26 FBI informants were in Washington for election-related protests on Jan. 6, including three who had been tasked with traveling to the city to report on others who were potentially planning to attend the events. Although 17 of those informants either entered the Capitol or a restricted area around the building during the riot, none of the 26 total informants were authorized to do so by the bureau, according to the report. Nor were they authorized to otherwise break the law or encourage others to do so. Here's a closer look at the facts. CLAIM: A December 2024 report released by the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General is proof that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a setup by the FBI. THE FACTS: That's false. The report found that no undercover FBI employees were at the riot on Jan. 6 and that none of the bureau's informants were authorized to participate. Informants, also known as confidential human sources, work with the FBI to provide information, but are not on the bureau’s payroll. Undercover agents are employed by the FBI. According to the report, 26 informants were in Washington on Jan. 6 in connection with the day's events. FBI field offices only informed the Washington Field Office or FBI headquarters of five informants that were to be in the field on Jan. 6. Of the total 26 informants, four entered the Capitol during the riot and an additional 13 entered a restricted area around the Capitol. But none were authorized to do so by the FBI, nor were they given permission to break other laws or encourage others to do the same. The remaining nine informants did not engage in any illegal activities. None of the 17 informants who entered the Capitol or surrounding restricted area have been prosecuted, the report says. A footnote states that after reviewing a draft of the report, the U.S. attorney's office in Washington said that it “generally has not charged those individuals whose only crime on January 6, 2021 was to enter restricted grounds surrounding the Capitol, which has resulted in the Office declining to charge hundreds of individuals; and we have treated the CHSs consistent with this approach.” The assistant special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office's counterterrorism division told the inspector general's office that he “denied a request from an FBI office to have an undercover employee engage in investigative activity on January 6.” He, along with then-Washington Field Office Assistant Director in Charge Steven D'Antuono, said that FBI policy prohibits undercover employees at First Amendment-protected events without investigative authority. Many social media users drew false conclusions from the report's findings. “JANUARY 6th WAS A SETUP!" reads one X post that had received more than 11,400 likes and shares as of Friday. “New inspector general report shows that 26 FBI/DOJ confidential sources were in the crowd on January 6th, and some of them went into the Capitol and restricted areas. Is it a coincidence that Wray put in his resignation notice yesterday? TREASON!” The mention of Wray's resignation refers to FBI Director Christopher Wray's announcement Wednesday that he plans to resign at the end of President Joe Biden's term in January. Other users highlighted the fact that there were 26 FBI informants in Washington on Jan. 6, but omitted key information about the findings of the report. These claims echo a fringe conspiracy theory advanced by some Republicans in Congress that the FBI played a role in instigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when rioters determined to overturn Republican Donald Trump's 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden stormed the Capitol in a violent clash with police. The report knocks that theory down. Wray called such theories “ludicrous” at a congressional hearing last year. The inspector general's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the false claims about its report. In addition to its findings about the the FBI's involvement on Jan. 6, the report said that the FBI, in an action its now-deputy director described as a “basic step that was missed,” failed to canvass informants across all 56 of its field offices for any relevant intelligence ahead of time. That was a step, the report concluded, “that could have helped the FBI and its law enforcement partners with their preparations in advance of January 6.” However, it did credit the bureau for preparing for the possibility of violence and for trying to identify known “domestic terrorism subjects” who planned to come to Washington that day. The FBI said in a letter responding to the report that it accepts the inspection general’s recommendation “regarding potential process improvements for future events.” — Find AP Fact Checks here: https://apnews.com/APFactCheck .
The Dallas Cowboys have been struggling as of late as they have lost five straight games after getting blown out by the Houston Texans Monday night. However, that hasn’t stopped some players from going out around town and enjoying themselves after losses. Cowboys star receiver C eeDee Lamb and star cornerback Trevon Diggs were reportedly out partying in a club after Dallas lost to the Texans on Monday. Cowboys Executive Vice President Stephen Jones was asked about players partying after losses during an appearance on 105.3 The Fan on Friday. Jones shared with the station that he doesn’t have a problem with it. “No, I mean, they’re going to work each and every week to make plays in the field. We obviously got to continue to do better. But no, that doesn’t concern me,” Jones said, according to Jon Mochta , when asked if he’s bothered seeing star players go out after losses. While Stephen Jones didn’t mind Cowboys players going out, they have received some criticism this week. Shannon Sharpe went after CeeDee Lamb and Trevon Diggs on his podcast earlier this week. “That’s why y’all Cowboys suck. Because two of your best players, this is what they’re doing,” Sharpe said . “That shows you how much the game of football means to them. That told me everything I need to know. “Everybody talks about winning, but do you take the steps in order to win? You got your ass kicked. I would’ve left the stadium with a bag over my head. ... Ain’t no way y’all would see me leave the stadium after I got beat like that. ... And you do this? It’s disrespectful to the fans that pay their hard earned money.” The Cowboys will look to end their losing skid on Sunday when they face the Washington Commanders. However, they could be without Trevon Diggs. He showed up on the injury report as limited for Friday’s practice. Diggs is officially listed as questionable. This article first appeared on 5 GOATs and was syndicated with permission.
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