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The European Union is putting pressure on TikTok over what regulators are calling the rabbit hole effect. Brussels says the platform's For You algorithm exposes children and vulnerable users to harmful content through its recommendation system. TikTok has pushed back, calling the findings fundamentally inaccurate, but the EU is demanding changes — and it has the regulatory teeth to enforce them.
Shifting to the job market, and there's a sharp contrast on either side of the Canada-US border this week. American employers added one hundred sixty-five thousand jobs in October, well above expectations, with unemployment ticking downward. Meanwhile, Canada shed roughly four thousand seven hundred positions the same month, continuing a troubling stretch that saw over one hundred thousand jobs lost across August and September combined.
And in a story that speaks to the limits of deal-making diplomacy, Russian oil tankers that were supposed to deliver diesel to the United States under an agreement between President Trump and Vladimir Putin have turned around mid-route. The deal, announced with considerable fanfare ahead of the midterms, appears to be dead before a single barrel reached American shores.
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