Hello. Hello everyone. Welcome back to news.
I'm Baker and I'm at a time for our good
to know headlines. Let's start with the shocking news
from the maker of a multi cancer early detection test
. This is interesting to say the least gallery is
a blood test that can help detect up to 50
types of cancer before symptoms emerge. Amazing technology.
Right. Well, in an email sent yesterday,
Grail Inc which makes the test said 400 customers were
incorrectly sent letters suggesting they had cancer. It's unclear
exactly where the impacted patients live. Grail offers its
testing in both the US, the US and in
Europe grill says the error was not due to incorrect
test results and cited a software issue. They said
all the patients have been contacted without compromising their privacy
. In fact, they said half of those 400
people weren't even tested yet for cancer and this letter
just went out. Yeah. So for those people
who had haven't sent the tests yet, you then
probably realize, ok, something must be off.
But imagine if you were one of those people that
did submit the lab results and you got that back
the range of emotion you're probably going through from that
and then getting a subsequent follow up saying, don't
worry, you don't have that. I mean,
that this is your number one job is to get
this right. I mean, and you already sort
of got that wrong. They're also sort of blaming
this on a third party that they're working with a
template that they designed, that accidentally pushed this out
. But yikes and insurance companies typically don't cover tests
like that or if they do just go with your
insurance company. So not only do they probably pay
hundreds if not thousands of dollars for this testing,
they may have gotten a wrong diagnosis. Yes.
All right. Meanwhile, switch gears to an update
over on the youtube. The platform will no longer
remove videos with misinformation about the 2020 election or any
claims that that election was stolen that after a change
to their internal policies since December 2020 youtube says they've
removed tens of thousands of videos making false claims that
the election was stolen from former president Donald Trump or
that there was widespread fraud. Now, in a
blog post, the Google owned service wrote that that
while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it
could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech
without meaningfully reducing the risk of violent or other real
world harm. Google is essentially saying that this is
only specifically about 2020 election. They in the next
couple of weeks are going to reveal their updated guidance
for the 2024 election. Um But this is sort
of a huge deal because now you're sort of having
this about face with social media platforms, about freedom
of speech versus misinformation here. Um They did say
Google that look any video that has telling people to
go incorrect polling places, location, other sorts of
things that have nothing to do with election fraud have
been taken down because the last thing they want to
do is sort of manipulate the election that way.
But at the end of the day, when you're
seeing Twitter more misinformation floating there, Facebook, more
misinformation floating there. Former President Trump not being reactivated
on a lot of those platforms as well, you
know, and now he's the the GOP front runner
as well. You got to be a little bit
nervous with a lot of these tech platforms heading into
the next election. And I'm glad you mentioned that
because youtube isn't alone here. Facebook has done this
. Twitter has done this. Instagram has done this
. I do wonder by 2024 how much will change
or not by the time we get to elections?
Look and then a lot of these out, a
lot of these companies are outsourcing A I to sort
of flag a lot of this as well and is
A I even properly actually getting a lot of this
information so true and coming up which states reported most
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