December 22, 2023: Putin election challenger, Prague mass shooting and Discovery-Paramount merger talks

Facts & Spins for December 22, 2023 Top Stories: Xi warns Biden that China plans to reunify Taiwan, anti-war activist Duntsova challenges Russia’s Putin for the presidency, Ukraine seeks to conscript its overseas citizens, Prague faces its worst mass shooting in the history of the Czech Republic, a study warns AI image-generators are being trained on explicit photos of children, Meta is accused of censoring pro-Palestinian accounts, a California ban on firearms is temporarily blocked, the UN releases a scathing report on Australia’s prison system, Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount contemplate merging, and Italy drafts a law to “safeguard” school nativity scenes.

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