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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, faces a mounting backlash after he called an on the social platform this week "the actual truth," dismaying investors and prompting some companies to halt advertising on the platform.Multiple advertisers — including Comcast, IBM, Warner Bros., the European Commission and the movie studio Lionsgate — said they are pulling spending on X (formerly known as Twitter), citing reports of rising hate speech, including a report that some ads are appearing next to Nazi-related content. A Lionsgate spokesperson told CBS News in a statement Friday that the...…Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, faces a mounting backlash after he called an on the social platform this week "the actual truth," dismaying investors and prompting some companies to halt advertising on the platform.Multiple advertisers — including Comcast, IBM, Warner Bros., the European Commission and the movie studio Lionsgate — said they are pulling spending on X (formerly known as Twitter), citing reports of rising hate speech, including a report that some ads are appearing next to Nazi-related content. A Lionsgate spokesperson told CBS News in a statement Friday that the...WW…
Life expectancy for American men dropped for a third consecutive year, with the National Center for Health Statistics citing an increase in so-called "deaths of despair," such as the rise in drug overdose deaths. The average lifespan of men in the U.S. dipped to 76.1 years in 2017 (the latest data available), amounting to a four-month decline in life expectancy since 2014. The findings shed additional light on economic research into the sharp increase in recent years in among white men with less education. Princeton economists Anne Case and Nobel laureate Angus Deaton first...…Life expectancy for American men dropped for a third consecutive year, with the National Center for Health Statistics citing an increase in so-called "deaths of despair," such as the rise in drug overdose deaths. The average lifespan of men in the U.S. dipped to 76.1 years in 2017 (the latest data available), amounting to a four-month decline in life expectancy since 2014. The findings shed additional light on economic research into the sharp increase in recent years in among white men with less education. Princeton economists Anne Case and Nobel laureate Angus Deaton first...WW…