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Now playing Next Ireland Irish government criticised for rejecting pay for medical students On Wednesday, the Irish government voted against a motion that called for student nurses and midwives to have their pay reinstated during the COVID-19 pandemic. One student told Euronews that the country's trainee nurses are "exploited". 03/12/2020
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Now playing Next The Cube French MPs mull criminalising the sharing of police pictures online France is debating a new law that would make it illegal to share images of police officers on social media. 17/11/2020
Now playing Next world news ‘Informational chaos’: Proposals made to regulate social media "Lies laced with anger and hate spread faster and further than the boring facts of news," says the Forum on Information & Democracy, which has laid out 250 ways social media companies can be regulated to tackle a growing threat to democracy. 12/11/2020
Now playing Next The Cube CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter grilled on content moderation The leaders of US tech giants faced strong criticism from US senators on Wednesday over the way they moderate content on their platforms. 28/10/2020
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Now playing Next The Cube Twitter's temporary tweak of retweet function causes confusion Twitter has changed the way you retweet in the lead-up to #USElection2020. But some people have been confused about the change. 22/10/2020
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