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Regulators in key jurisdictions are concerned about Twitter’s continued compliance efforts following a wave of departures among the platform’s policy and safety-issue staffers around the globe. Recent exits include dozens of employees in units including government policy, legal affairs and Twitter’s “trust and safety” division, which is responsible for functions like drafting content-moderation rules, from hubs including Dublin, Singapore and San Francisco, reports the Wall Street Journal, which observes that scrutiny has been particularly close in Europe. Věra Jourová, a vice president of the EU’s executive arm, said she was concerned about reports of the departure of many Twitter staff in Europe. “European laws continue to apply to Twitter, regardless of who is the owner,” she said.

Facebook owner Meta says it has detected and disrupted influence operations originating in the U.S., and believes the American military is responsible, reports The Register. Meta previously reported on secretive influence ops being performed by the U.S. in August, but didn't specify anything else at that time. "Although the people behind this operation attempted to conceal their identities and coordination, our investigation found links to individuals associated with the U.S. military," Meta said in its latest quarterly threat report.

Guy Berger, LinkedIn’s principal economist, posts on the network to note that the number of Americans continuing to claim unemployment insurance rose to an eight-month high in mid-November (1.551m). “The increase since the summer is small so far, but it's been continuing at a steady clip.  If it keeps going we'll eventually see the [Bureau of Labor Statistics] measure of the unemployment rate (at 3.7% in mid-October) go up too,” Berger writes.

Tampax has been accused of 'sexualising women' after a controversial tweet went viral. The Proctor & Gamble-owned tampon brand had riffed on a popular internet meme with sexual connotations. On Wednesday morning, the hashtag #BoycottTampax was trending, with thousands of women urged to stop buying the company's products. Tampax US has featured several campaigns calling for conversations about periods to be ‘normalised.’

A PhD student in Israel has devised a method to analyze Twitter posts for actionable insights into chronic disease patients' symptoms, treatments and daily life. Engineers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Management analyzed tweets by people suffering from inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis. They were able to discover chronically ill patients, who tended to post more often about their diseases. Ben-Gurion University PhD student Maya Stemmer said: “Using the framework to identify more patients and collect more data can shed light on patients’ coping strategies with their disease and its influence on their quality of life.”