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Twitter in free speech storm

Twitter is at the centre of a storm over free speech during the US presidential election.

Twitter temporarily prevented the official Trump campaign from tweeting and has been accused of interfering in the election. So what caused the row and could there be consequences for the way social media companies are regulated? We hear from Rebecca Klar, a tech policy reporter at the political website The Hill. A second wave of coronavirus in Europe brings a new wave of restrictions to contain it. France, Germany, Spain, the UK and the Netherlands are among the countries now tightening rules designed to keep people apart, and we find out more about the likely impact on the hospitality sector of a new 9pm to 6am curfew in a number of French cities, from Lionel van den Haute, who manages the Radisson Hotel in Marseille. Also in the programme, voters in New Zealand head to the polls this weekend. Prime minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party is comfortably ahead in the polls, and Jennifer Curtin, professor of political science at Auckland University explains how much the country's economy has been hit by the pandemic. But whilst Ms Ardern is a popular leader, not everyone has been delighted by her response to coronavirus, including Shelley Sefton, owner of the Christchurch restaurant Diner 66, who tells us why. And the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Vivienne Nunis reports on a burgeoning animation industry on the African continent. (Picture of Twitter logo with United States of America flag in the background by Budrul Chukrut via Getty Images).

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Thu 15 Oct 2020 21:32GMT

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  • Thu 15 Oct 2020 21:32GMT