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Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri. Archive image. Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP/TT
Have you ever wondered why your Instagram videos look like mashed potatoes compared to the flashy clips of celebrities? Quality-wise, it’s not your fault. According to Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, the best quality is simply saved for the most popular content. During a recent question and answer session, Mosseri explains that posts that initially get good distribution but then drop off get poorer video quality.
According to Mosseri, it’s not about a big difference in quality, but more popular posts – usually from already known accounts and people – are simply a little better, purely in terms of video and image technology.
Instagram, and the owner Meta, believe that by extension it is impossible that all content that is uploaded does so in the best quality. According to the platform, things that get increased distribution become “better” afterwards.
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After being missing for just over a week, a Swedish-Australian woman has been found alive in Kosciuszko National Park, along the so-called Nungar Creek Trail, southwest of Canberra. Photo: Anders Humlebo/TT
After being missing for more than a week, a Swedish-Australian woman has been found alive and bitten by a snake.
The woman was found taken and injured in the Snowy Mountains in the state of New South Wales in Australia, several media reports.
She had a broken foot and was severely hypothermic. The woman was taken to hospital and her condition is now stable.
The 48-year-old woman, an award-winning photographer who, among other things, photographs wild horses, was born and raised in Sweden. She moved to Australia 20 years ago and has several times hiked and photographed in the area of Kosciuszko National Park where she disappeared.
– She is incredibly lucky to have survived. She has obviously had a really tough time, says police officer Toby Lindsay according to the BBC.
At least 60 people are said to have been killed in Israeli airstrikes against several locations in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon.
This is according to sources for Reuters.
According to the region’s governor Bachir Khodr, the attacks in the area are the worst since the war between Israel and Hezbollah broke out in September, TT writes:
Lebanese health authorities confirm that at least 48 people have been killed.
Photo: Ica
Ica recalls Ica Rucola 65 grams and 200 grams because the supplier found traces of salmonella, the food giant writes in a press release.
The find was made in a small batch, but as a precaution, all products with the same best-before date are being recalled.
– We take the incident seriously and are now investigating together with the supplier how this could have happened and how we can ensure that it does not happen again, says Lisa Olsen, quality manager at Iva Sweden.
The recall applies to ICA Rucola 65g with a best-before date of 2024-11-02 and ICA Rucola 200g with a best-before date of 2024-11-02.
In April 2019, a woman was raped by a man unknown to her in the Haga district of Umeå.
The case has remained unsolved, but this summer they got a hit via a DNA register and now a man in his 40s has been arrested, reports Västerbottens-Kuriren.
The man was arrested last summer on suspicion of another crime, and the profile turned out to be consistent with traces that could be secured after the rape five years ago.
– As far as is known, the plaintiff and suspect at the time were completely unknown to each other. At the time, however, both were living in Umeå, says prosecutor Emelie Hammar to VK.
The man is on probable grounds suspected of rape.
An Unrwa worker in the devastation after an Israeli attack on a school run by the UN organization in Nuseirat, Gaza in May. Photo: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP/TT
Israel is expected to approve two controversial laws that effectively ban UNRWA from operating in Israel.
This is reported by TT.
The laws are also expected to severely curtail the organization’s operations in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Among other things, the text of the law states that Israeli authorities may no longer have contact with UNRWA, the UN aid organization for Palestine refugees.
The law has previously been met with sharp criticism from the UN and the EU. On Sunday, seven foreign ministers warned in a joint statement that a ban on UNRWA will have “catastrophic consequences for an already critical and rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation”.
Sweden has also expressed concern about the law.
The US also urges Israel not to adopt the ban.
Kristersson and Zelenskyj in Iceland. Photo: Eggert Jóhannesson / Scanpix Denmark
Sweden will support Ukraine with an additional SEK 490 million.
This was announced by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at a press conference in Reykjavik together with Nordic prime ministers and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj.
The money will go to Ukraine’s defense forces and can be used, among other things, for fighter robots within the framework of Ukraine’s F16 program, training and mine clearance.
The Swedish government also decided on Thursday to give SEK 230 million to a Danish initiative that supports the procurement of defense equipment produced in Ukraine, writes TT.
Sweden’s government has decided to stop all direct government cooperation with Georgia.
Aid Minister Benjamin Dousa says so DN.
– This is, among other things, about cooperation between the tax authorities, which we judge is not appropriate under the current circumstances, says the minister of aid to the newspaper.
One person has been taken to hospital after an accident at the goods railway station in Malmö, the police write on their website.
The person is said to have been hit by a goods wagon and is seriously injured, according to Region Skåne.
A workplace accident report will be drawn up.
A couple in their 80s who went out to pick mushrooms outside Boxholm are missing, the police write on their website.
The couple’s car has been in the same spot since Friday.
The police were alerted on Monday when a relative became worried. During the afternoon, a search effort was launched in the area with several dog patrols and drones.
– The search operation is ongoing. We have and have had several dog patrols out, says Mats Pettersson, press spokesperson for the police in the East region.
No crime is currently suspected.
Protesters in Tbilisi. Photo: Zurab Tsertsvadze
The opposition demonstrated on Monday evening against the election results in Georgia, where the right-wing populist ruling party was declared the winner.
When EU President Viktor Orban arrived in Tbilisi on Monday to congratulate the winning Georgian Dream party, he was greeted by opposition whistleblowers.
The opposition, which is more pro-EU than the government, has not accepted the election results and demands that the elections be redone.
Up to 15,000 Georgians participate in the demonstration, reports Meduza.
The District Attorney of Pennsylvania is suing Elon Musk to stop his $1 million raffle to voters in the state.
Dert reports CNBC.
Musk has said he will raffle $1 million a day to registered voters in swing states who sign his petition “in support of free speech and the right to bear arms.”
Critics believe that it is a way for Trump supporter Musk to solicit votes in favor of the ex-president.
in the US it is illegal to pay people to register to vote, and it is believed that Elon Musk’s stunt is getting around it.
The district attorney calls it “an unquestionably illegal lottery” and a threat to the integrity of the presidential election.
The President of Ukraine arrived on Monday in Iceland, where the Nordic Council is currently meeting.
He will meet the Prime Ministers of Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden.
It reports Kyiv Independent newspaper.
Both Mälartåg’s and SJ’s traffic is affected on Dalabanan. Archive image. Photo: Caisa Rasmussen/TT
Train traffic on the Dalabanan between Borlänge and Uppsala, Arlanda and Stockholm has been affected by canceled trains and delayed departures on Monday afternoon. The reason is that a tree fell over a contact line between Sala and Avesta Krylbo.
The Swedish Transport Administration received the alarm about an electrical fault at 2:30 p.m. There is still no forecast for when traffic past Sala can be up and running again. Some routes are replaced by bus.
– Our repairmen are on site and trying to see if there is a quick way to fix this contact line, says Daniel Mossberg, press communicator at the Swedish Transport Administration.
No train was nearby when the tree fell over the power line, according to the Swedish Transport Administration.
Police and an ambulance have been sent to Konduktörsvägen in Kristianstad after an alarm about an injured man.
The man, who is 18 years old, must have stab or cut injuries, according to the police.
– It is in a residential area and we are there blocking off the suspected crime scene right now, says Evelina Olsson, press spokesperson at the police in Skåne.
The injured man was found outside.
– He had to go to the hospital by ambulance. He was awake and talkative, says Evelina Olsson.
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