The company Bytedance that owns and controls TikTok has a surveillance and censorship tool that has word lists that would catch discussions about political issues relating to China's repression.

It is not easy to determine what use the company makes of these lists. I wouldn't trust what the company says about that. (If the tool belonged to Facebook, I would not trust what it might say about that.)

* Fast-rising fungal attacks on the world’s most important crops threaten the planet’s future food supply.*

* The impact of fungal disease is expected to worsen, the researchers say, as the climate crisis results in temperatures rising and fungal infections moving steadily polewards. Since the 1990s, fungal pathogens have been moving to higher latitudes at a rate of about 7km a year. Wheat stem rust infections, normally found in the tropics, have already been reported in England and Ireland.*

*Revealed: most of EU delegation to crucial fishing talks made up of fishery lobbyists.*

*Internet freedom activists warn Congress that the EARN IT act would eliminate internet freedom.*

The stated goals of the EARN IT act seem proper to me, but the cost to freedom would be terrible, as adults would have to prove their identities to get accounts on platforms,

Another bill to protect "children" on the internet is called KOSA. The description of that bill seems to imply determining which users are "children" but doesn't say how this would be done. I fear the worst.

Republicans in the Senate blocked a bill to impose a code of ethics on the Supreme Court.

I would expect that the Republicans figure the oligarchs who fund them want to continue corrupting the Supreme Court.