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Diana Baptista, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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‘Trump will win and deport people’: Migrants rush to cross US border as online rumours fan fears
Misinformation peddled by smugglers and organised crime groups has made it hard to migrants to decipher fact from fiction.
Anastasia Moloney, Thomson Reuters Foundation News & Diana Baptista, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Extreme weather disrupts outdoor concerts and parties, poses existential threat for events industry
From heatwaves to lightning strikes, climate change is becoming growing problem for all public activities held outdoors.
Diana Baptista, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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As AI imitations crop up, a push for ‘right to own one’s voice’
Voice actors and rights advocates hope platforms will pay named voices instead of startups that sell AI copies fed by data scraped off the web.
Diana Baptista, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Adam Smith, Thomson Reuters Foundation & Kim Harrisberg, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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‘Tampon tax’: Which countries still tax menstruation essentials?
VAT is an important source of revenue for governments – and the reason why many countries still have a tampon tax.
Diana Baptista, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Loan apps rope in young Mexicans desperate for jobs to intimidate and threaten defaulters
Workers said they were told to mine data from a client’s contacts and harass clients.
Diana Baptista, Thomson Reuters Foundation