Headlines: Social media ban to include Reddit and Kick

Today's headlines include:

• The Government has confirmed platforms Kick and Reddit will be included in its social media ban for under-16s, which comes into effect next month.
• Zohran Mamdani has been elected Mayor of New York City, with U.S. outlets calling the election in his favour less than an hour after polls closed. 
• The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released its 16th annual report evaluating nations’ progress towards limiting global warming to 1.5°C. 
• And today’s good news: The biggest supermoon of the year will be visible in the sky tonight. S

Hosts: Lucy Tassell and Emma Gillespie
Producer: Elliot Lawry

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
From The Daily Os.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm Lucy Tassel, I'm Emma Gillespie.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's Wednesday, the fifth of November. Here's what's making headlines
this evening.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
The Federal Government has confirmed platforms Kick and Reddit will
be included in its Social Media Band for Under sixteens,
which comes into effect next month. Kick is an online
platform launched in late twenty twenty two which allows users
to watch, broadcast and comment on live streams. Co founded
by Australian billionaire Edward Craven, its content guidelines are less

(00:36):
stringent than competitors like Twitch. Earlier this year, the e
Safety Commissioner accused Kick of failing to meet online content
standards following the death of a man on a live
stream in France, threatening a forty nine point five million
dollar fine. The US platform Reddit is best known for
its communities of subreddits, forums based on specific interests, where

(00:58):
users share opinions and give it Both Kick and Reddit
allow visitors to view most of their content without creating
an account, but you cannot comment or interact with any
posts without one. From the tenth of December, both platforms
will have to verify Australian newser's age when they create
an account or face millions of dollars in fines.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Zoran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City,
with US outlets calling the election in his favor less
than an hour after pole's closed. Aged thirty four, Mamdani
is the youngest person elected New York City mayor in
more than a century, the first Muslim to hold the position,
and the first South Asian person. He ran as a
Democrat and identifies politically as a Democratic socialist, campaigning for

(01:45):
free buses and free childcare across the city. Mamdani defeated
former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as
an independent after losing the Democrat nomination, and Republican candidate
Curtis Sleewer. Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams dropped out of the
race following allegations of corruption, but his name was still
listed on the ballot. Mamdani is one of three Democrats

(02:07):
elected today across the US, with Abigail Spanberger becoming the
first female governor of the state of Virginia and Mikey
Cheryl elected as the governor of New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
The United Nations Environment Program has released its sixteenth annual
report evaluating nations progress towards limiting global warming to one
point five degrees. It found nations have worked to fulfill
their obligations under the Paris Agreement, a global packed to
limit carbon emissions so global temperatures don't rise more than
one point five degrees above levels recorded from eighteen fifty

(02:41):
to nineteen hundred. The UNAP now projects Earth will warm
by two point three to two point five degrees celsius
this century, which is cooler than last year's projections, but
still far from the one point five degree target. It
estimated global emissions need to be reduced by a minimum
of fifty five percent in the next ten years in
order to limit warming to the Paris Agreement line, calling

(03:04):
the goal quote extremely challenging to reach. The Australian government
has legislated a goal of reducing emissions by forty three
percent on two thousand and five levels by twenty thirty
In September, the government accepted advice from the Independent Climate
Change Authority to aim to reduce emissions by up to
seventy percent from two thousand and five levels by twenty

(03:24):
thirty five.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
And today's good news the biggest supermoon of the year
will be visible in the sky tonight. Supermoons appear three
to four times a year and are the biggest and
brightest moons of the year. According to NASA. They occur
when the Moon is at its closest point to Earth
during its orbit around three hundred and sixty thousand kilometers away. Tonight,
the moon will be full and will be at its

(03:50):
closest point to Earth all year. You can first spot
it as it comes up over the horizon in the
east after sunset, and it's expected to hit its peak
around midnight. If you do, we end up missing tonight's moon.
No stress. The next and final supermoon of the year
is a month away in early December.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's the latest from The Daily O's news room. But
if you are looking for something else to listen to,
you can check out today's deep dive on the controversies
surrounding free birthing.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
We'll be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive, but
until then, have a good one. My name is Lily
Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda Bunjelung Kalkotin woman from
Gadighl Country. The Daily oz acknowledges that this podcast is
recorded on the lands of the Gadighl people and pays
respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island and nations.

(04:39):
We pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries,
both past and present.