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A | LONDON -- Britain's main opposition Labour Party has decisively won two special elections, snatching seats in Parliament that were long rock-solid bastions of the governing Conservatives.Results early Friday showed that voters in Tamworth, central England, and Mid-Bedfordshire, north of London, switched from Conservatives to Labour in almost unprecedented numbers, solidifying Labour's status as front-runner ahead of a national election next year.Labour leader Keir Starmer claimed his party was “redrawing the political map.” Labour candidate Sarah Edwards took Tamworth, where the Conservatives won by almost 20,000 votes in 2019, and Labour's Alistair Strathern took Mid-Bedfordshire by overturning a 25,000-vote Tory margin.John Curtice, a polling expert at the University of Strathclyde, said the “exceptional swings” to Labour could be compared to the collapse in Conservative support under Prime Minister John Major in the 1990s.“And we all know how that ended," he said — in a landslide 1997 election victory for Labour under Tony Blair.Others cautioned that turnout in Thursday's voting was low, and the elections were unusual because they replaced lawmakers who both resigned under a cloud.Tamworth legislator Chris Pincher quit after Parliament’s standards watchdog recommended he be suspended for “completely inappropriate” behavior after groping two men at a London private members’ club. Then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson’ s reluctance to sanction Pincher when the allegations emerged helped trigger Johnson’s ouster at the hands of his own party last year.Mid-Bedfordshire member of Parliament Nadine Dorries resigned over the treatment of Johnson and her own failure to be appointed to Parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Lords. Dorries is a strong ally of Johnson who has blamed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for helping to topple the former leader.Conservative Party chairman Greg Hands blamed the losses on “legacy issues” and said people were “happy with the job Rishi Sunak is doing as prime minister.” The results add to pressure on the governing party, which has lost several byelections since Sunak took office just under a year ago. He replaced Liz Truss, who announced her resignation a year ago Friday after her plan for unfunded tax cuts sent financial markets into turmoil and rocked the economy.Truss spent just seven weeks in office after winning a party leadership contest to replace Boris Johnson, who quit after three years in office when scandals over money and ethics turned party lawmakers against him.Sunak steadied the economy but has not managed to boost the party’s rating in opinion polls, where it consistently lags between 10 and 20 points behind Labour. A national election must be called by the end of 2024.Friday's results confirm polls showing the Conservatives are losing support across the country, from affluent southern voters turned off by Brexit to working-class northern voters who switched from Labour in 2019 after Johnson promised to spread prosperity to long-neglected areas.。Facebook今天宣布，未来三年将投资3亿美元在全球地方新闻上。此前，Facebook因其在全球新闻业务中的角色受到批评。Facebook周二表示，对时间和金钱的投资是其先前帮助美国和世界其他地区新闻编辑创建和维护可行商业模式以确保其生存的计划的一个重大扩展。据即将接受投资的公司称，与以往对新闻业务的投资不同，Facebook最新一轮投资的特点是缺乏与Facebook产品的链接。据报道，Facebook此前几轮对新闻业务的投资旨在鼓励出版商依靠Facebook交付产品。
B | 在这种模式下，当Facebook的战略发生变化时，许多新闻机构的利益将受到影响。
C | Facebook负责全球新闻合作的副总裁坎贝尔·布朗在一份声明中说：“我们将继续打击Facebook上的虚假新闻、虚假信息和低质量新闻。
D | 同时，我们有机会和责任帮助当地新闻机构发展壮大。先前的批评者指出，Facebook为仇恨言论、错误信息和政治干预提供了平台。根据Facebook的计划，美国的第一轮投资将有助于增加当地报道的资源，帮助研究如何利用技术改进新闻收集和创造新产品，招募“受训社区记者”，并将他们安置在当地的新闻室。此外，它还将帮助资助一个类似于和平公司的项目，在五年内将1000名记者安置在当地的新闻编辑室。投资将由普利策中心、美国报道、奈特·伦费斯特地方新闻改革基金、地方媒体协会和地方媒体联盟、美国新闻项目和社区新闻项目进行。去年12月，Facebook宣布向英国出版商投资600万美元。脸谱网还计划扩大去年推出的加速器计划，以帮助诸如旧金山纪事和丹佛邮政等当地新闻编辑室提高他们吸引用户和会员捐款的能力。
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