In April 2019, a masked-up model named KOVID was showing off her new style on Project Runway. This is called priming the public.

Starmer & UK Politics in 60 seconds

🇪🇸 Starting next week, the Spanish government will roll out major rules for digital platforms.

Executives will be held legally responsible for violations on their platforms, and algorithmic amplification of illegal content will be treated as a crime.

A new system will measure and expose how platforms spread hate and polarization.

Social media will be banned for under-16s, with strict, real age-verification requirements.

Authorities will also investigate possible violations by Grok, TikTok, and Instagram.

— 🇨🇳/🇮🇱 NEW: The Chinese government has banned all new investments into Israel

🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 The last Russia-US nuclear arms control treaty, known as New START, is due to expire on February 5. Here's a look at what the treaty does, what its expiration would mean and what it may take to establish a new treaty

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‘We attracted wrong kind of immigrants’ — Belgian PM

Now Europe needs to ‘attract right kind of immigrants’

‘Europe was foolish’ — PM’s generosity with past tense is almost kind