We start with Elon Musk and the social Media Platform he controls, x, formerly known as twitter. Its facing the loss of one of its largest markets over a row about Hate Speech and disinformation. Brazils Telecoms Regulator Suspended Access to ex for the countrys 200 plus million people over the weekend after a ruling by a seniorjudge. Today a panel of brazils supreme court will begin hearing on whether to uphold that ruling. Earlier i spoke to the Technologyjournalist Chris Stokel walker and began by asking him how significant the Shut Down was in brazil. Pretty significant because of the scale of the country and therefore the scale of the use. We have third party estimates, between 20 Million and a0 million brazilians are believed to use x every month. Around about one third have it installed on their phones which means that this is a relatively big market and has been not just for x but lots of other Tech Platforms which is why they try to keep them onside. If you are a Tech Executiv
That ruling has been upheld. Lets get the latest now from our reporter in brasilia, leandro prazeres. In terms of what this means for brazilians, how are people reacting to this lack of access To X . ~. ,. , To X . Well, what we have seen so far since To X . Well, what we have seen so far since the To X . Well, what we have seen so far since the beginning To X . Well, what we have seen so far since the beginning of i so far since the beginning of last weekend is that there is a huge number of brazilians, Former X users, who have been migrating to other Social Networks such as blue sky, threads, and people reactivating accounts on facebook to talk about the issues that they were talking about on x. Yesterday, for example, it was reported that bluesky had gained more thani million new brazilian users in just three days. For those who are still trying to use x as a platform, they can use virtual private networks but the problem is that there is a fine imposed by the Supreme Court in brazi
Anger, grief, and frustration in israel real as protesters call for an immediate Ceasefire Deal with Hamas after israels military recovered bodies of six hostages murdered in gaza in jail just Hours President Biden and Vice President harris will meet with the us team working on a negotiated deal and new this morning, President Biden making the shift from candidate to surrogate as he It Turns to the Campaign Trail in pennsylvania. And the Labor Day Travel rush is on millions of people passing through airports at highways. Kate is one of them. Shes out im John Berman with Sara Sidner and this is a special Holiday Edition of a show like no other Cnn News central all right john, i always try to take over. Thats what happened at the beginning of the show and a Holiday Weekend all right. Happening right now, there are mass protests intensifying in israel as Grief And Outrage over the killings of six hostages in gaza. Now threatened cripple Israels Economy overnight. Police using tear Gas And
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Let s turn our attention to us as well and talk about the us jobs data, that s out this friday. Will that have any impact on what the fed decides to do? we know they re meeting in a few weeks. We are looking at potentially the highest risk economic event of the year so far. Because what we have seen so far, august was unprecedented for some global markets volatility and one of the catalysts behind this was concerns that us economic momentum after being very robust and resilient for the past 18 months or so is showing signs that those rocks are falling and the momentum is falling with it. We do expect the fed, the us central bank, to cut interest rate this month but what s concerning is that fed policy makers have had a poker face of not giving too much away until recently. We had a weak economic data release for the monthly jobs report in august and we have also seen a data revision where up to 850,000 jobs were potentially overestimated between april of last year and march of this yea