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29th Mar 2024

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WhatsApp imposes restriction on message forwarding

The Facebook-owned app WhatsApp will impose a strict new limit on message-forwarding to slow disinformation spreading and the dissemination of fake news, The Guardian reported on Tuesday. Under the new rules, when a user receives a message that has been forward more than five times, they will only be able to send it to one single chat at the time - which represents one-fifth of the previous limit.

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Opinion

EU Modernisation Fund: an open door for fossil gas in Romania

Among the largest sources of financing for energy transition of central and eastern European countries, the €60bn Modernisation Fund remains far from the public eye. And perhaps that's one reason it is often used for financing fossil gas projects.

'Swiftly dial back' interest rates, ECB told

Italian central banker Piero Cipollone in his first monetary policy speech since joining the ECB's board in November, said that the bank should be ready to "swiftly dial back our restrictive monetary policy stance."

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