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 EU fake news social media, accordance with 2018 self-regulation agreement. Two years after agreeing to a self-regulatory code of practice to tackle disinformation, Facebook, Alphabet's Google, Twitter and other tech rivals must try harder to be more effective, the European Commission said on Thursday. Fake news related to Covid-19 has accelerated calls for social media to be more proactive in combating the issue. The companies, including Mozilla and trade bodies for the advertising industry, signed up to the code in 2018 in a bid to stave off more heavy-handed regulation. Microsoft and TikTok subsequently joined the group. There are, however, several shortcomings in the code following an assessment of its first year in operation, the commission said, according to a report seen by Reuters. "These can be grouped in four broad categories: inconsistent and incomplete application of the code across platforms and member states, lack of uniform definitions, existence of several gaps...

 Trump defends COVID Woodward, admits to concealing the true threat of coronavirus. President Donald Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed US coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and "more deadly than even your strenuous flus," and that he repeatedly played it down publicly, according to legendary journalist Bob Woodward in his new book "Rage." "This is deadly stuff," Trump told Woodward on February 7. In a series of interviews with Woodward, Trump revealed that he had a surprising level of detail about the threat of the virus earlier than previously known. "Pretty amazing," Trump told Woodward, adding that the coronavirus was maybe five times "more deadly" than the flu. Trump's admissions are in stark contrast to his frequent public comments at the time insisting that the virus was "going to disappear" and "all work out fine." The book, using Trump's o...

 Megyn Kelly new company, 'The Megyn Kelly Show.'. Devil May Care Media will produce a host of audio content around current events, including 'The Megyn Kelly Show.' Megyn Kelly is launching her own independent production company, Devil May Care Media, with podcasts as key content in its pipeline. Front and center will be Kelly's own podcast,  The Megyn Kelly Show , to feature interviews with newsmakers and other guests. Kelly's indie banner will also produce content, including audio fare, based on breaking news, current events and legal and cultural issues. In 2019, Kelly parted ways with NBC News, where she had hosted the third hour of NBC's  Today  show and  Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly . That followed her own long-running Fox News show  The Kelly File . The veteran broadcast journalist touted her production company as giving Kelly the creative independence she craved amid corporate and political constraints. “With Devil May Care Media, I answer only to...

 Pelosi US UK trade, Northern Ireland after decades of violence. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, has warned that Britain will be unable to secure a trade deal with the US if it does anything to undermine the treaty that brought peace to Northern Ireland after decades of violence. Pelosi's comments came after the UK said it would legislate to override parts of the divorce deal with the European Union in the event that a trade agreement isn't reached. The UK government claims that its Internal Market Bill is designed to ensure that trade between the four nations of the United Kingdom would remain unfettered in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The UK concedes that it would breach the EU withdrawal agreement; a British Cabinet minister said this week that the legislation would " break international law  in a very specific and limited way." That did not go down well among top Democrats in the US, who fear it could undermine the 1998 ...

 Tiger Tennessee, authorities are looking for a loose tiger. Welcome to the next level of Jumanji. In a year that can't possibly can't get any stranger, officials say they are now looking for a  tiger loose in East Knoxville, Tennessee .  Local authorities are working with representatives with Tiger Haven, a big cat sanctuary in Kingston, Tennessee, to locate a tiger that might have been spotted by a Knox County Sheriff's Office deputy in the Forks of the River Industrial Park late Wednesday night.   The deputy, Andy Wilson, was working a side job at a business in the industrial park when he reported seeing a large cat rise out of the French Broad River, cross the street and disappear into a dense wooded area, according to Knox County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Kimberly Glenn. "After a brief moment of shock, he realized it really was a tiger," Glenn said. "It went into a thick area of kudzu." Wilson reported the tiger to dispatch about 8:30 p.m. Th...

Texas ballot ruling,  method used to reject some mail-in ballots. As Texas prepares for an expected deluge of mail-in votes in November, a federal judge has found that one facet of the state’s signature verification rules for those ballots is unconstitutional and must be reworked for the upcoming election. U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia  ruled  Tuesday that the state’s process for determining whether there is a mismatch between a voter’s signature on their ballot envelope and the signature the voter used on their application to vote by mail “plainly violates certain voters’ constitutional rights.” In his order, Garcia ordered the Texas secretary of state to inform local election officials within 10 days that it is unconstitutional to reject a ballot based on a "perceived signature mismatch" without first notifying the voter about the mismatch and giving the voter a “meaningful opportunity” to correct the issue. Additionally, to "protect voters' rights" ...