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Feb 01 2023
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Meta Platforms Stock Rises After Posting Upbeat Outlook for Coming Year
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. rose by as much as 18% in after-hours trading after reporting improving conditions that point to signs of recovery for the social-media giant, which has weathered privacy restrictions and growing competition from rival TikTok.
Meta said it would buy back an additional $40 billion in shares this year, reduced its estimate for costs and said revenue
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 25 2023
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Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market
At a rundown market on the Indonesian island of Batam, a small location tracker was beeping from the back of a crumbling second-hand shoe store. A Reuters reporter followed the high-pitched ping to a mound of old sneakers and began digging through the pile.
There they were: a pair of blue Nike running shoes with a tracking device hidden in one of the soles.
These familiar shoes
ReutersAug 04 2023
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US Trust in Media at 32% in Reuters Digital News Report
Each year since 2012, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has published a Digital News Report in which it presents data, details international trends regarding media consumption and attitudes, and reports changes in the media industry. The 2023 report covers 46 countries – which Reuters (Center bias) calls markets – accounting for over half of the world’s population.
Ian RosenzweigDec 11 2022
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Elon Musk threatens Twitter employees with legal action if they leak to press
Elon Musk issued a sharply worded email to Twitter employees warning of severe legal consequences should they violate their nondisclosure agreements by leaking company information to the media.
“As evidenced by the many detailed leaks of confidential Twitter information, a few people at our company continue to act in a manner contrary to the company’s interests and in violation of their
New York Post (News)Jan 31 2023
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Exxon Mobil’s record $55.7 billion profit last year fuels criticism that it cashed in on war and sky-high gasoline prices
Exxon Mobil posted record annual profits in 2022 as consumers globally struggled with high prices for gasoline, home heating and consumer goods.
The energy giant brought in $55.7 billion in annual profits, exceeding its previous record of $45.22 billion in 2008, when a barrel of oil soared close to $150.
Exxon’s bounty came as Americans shelled out $4 per gallon for gasoline
FortuneJul 07 2021
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Trump sues Twitter, Facebook, Google and CEOs Dorsey, Zuckerberg, Pichai
Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is suing Facebook, Twitter and Google, as well as their respective CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai.
Trump, who has a history of threatening legal action but not always following through, made the announcement at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, at 11 a.m. ET alongside two leaders from America First Policy
CNBCDec 16 2022
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Twitter’s suspension of Irish journalist a ‘worrying development’, says NUJ
Elon Musk’s decision to suspend the Twitter accounts of US-based journalists, among them Irish CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan, is a “worrying development”, the general secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has said. The social media giant could also face EU sanctions under the Digital Services Act, the European commissioner for values and transparency has warned.
Late on
The Irish TimesFeb 15 2023
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Ohio's Toxic Train Disaster Follows ‘Perfect Storm’ Of Cuts, Deregulation
In 2007, railroad giant Norfolk Southern Corp. boasted it was making “railroad history” by operating the nation’s first freight train equipped with electronically controlled pneumatic brakes — a modern technology that the company noted could make trains safer by significantly decreasing how long it took them to stop.
Norfolk Southern said at the time that it planned to add ECP brakes —
HuffPostDec 08 2022
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‘The world changed overnight’: Zero-Covid overhaul brings joy — and fears — in China
Workers across China have dismantled some of the physical signs of the country’s zero-Covid controls, peeling health code scanning signs off metro station walls and closing some checkpoints after the government unveiled an overhaul of its pandemic policy.
But as many residents expressed relief and happiness at the obvious loosening of measures, some worried about its impact and
CNN DigitalSep 18 2020
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New Alliance to Track and Fight Censoring of Conservatives
Social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, and Google may deny it, but it’s becoming obvious to many that conservatives are facing censorship. Now, though, the conservative Media Research Center (MRC) has announced a new alliance that’s going to fight the Big Tech companies over this censoring of conservative speech, websites and people, all the way up to the president, who recently saw even
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