Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stunned many with his announcement that he was pulling the plug on fact-checking at Facebook and Instagram in the United States, leaving other countries such as Brazil wondering what will change for them (Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV) Brazil on Friday gave social media giant Meta 72 hours to explain its fact-checking … Read more
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is disappointed that the world’s biggest asset manager, BlackRock BLK.N, has left a global initiative to combat climate change, his spokesperson said on Friday, urging other companies to “stay the course.” The move came under pressure from Republican politicians. BlackRock, which manages some $11.5 … Read more
Jamie Dimon has been vocal in making the case for working from the office.Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images JPMorgan Chase is summoning all staff back to the office, becoming the latest corporate giant to call time on era of remote and hybrid working sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic. The US’s largest bank, which has … Read more
(Bloomberg) — US aviation safety regulators are investigating a Delta Air Lines Inc. flight in which four people were injured after pilots aborted takeoff due to a possible engine problem, with passengers using emergency slides to flee onto a snow-covered runway. Most Read from Bloomberg The incident at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport occurred at about … Read more
(Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump won’t be involved in the day-to-day management of the Trump Organization once he takes office, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing an ethics plan from the company. Quinn Emanuel’s William Burck will assist in developing internal ethics policies and procedures to avoid any perceived conflicts, the report … Read more
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street’s most watched gauge of investor anxiety rose to a three-week high on Friday as stock indexes sold off following a an upbeat jobs report that pushed back market expectations for further Federal Reserve interest rate cuts. The Cboe Volatility Index – an options-based indicator that … Read more
(Bloomberg) — KKR & Co. is exploring options for Viridor Ltd., including a potential sale that could value the UK waste management firm at as much as £7 billion ($8.5 billion) including debt, people familiar with the matter said. Most Read from Bloomberg The private equity firm has been speaking to potential advisers about the … Read more
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit by a conservative group opposed to diversity initiatives in medicine that challenged a Pfizer fellowship program designed to boost the pipeline of Black, Latino and Native American people in leadership positions at the drugmaker. At the urging of the group Do … Read more
‘A “sheltering” approach may be counterproductive. Some children could source alternative devices and secretly engage with social media.’Photograph: LeoPatrizi/Getty Images In the article (As a child psychiatrist, I see what smartphones are doing to kids’ mental health – and it’s terrifying, 3 January), Dr Emily Sehmer, a UK-based psychiatrist, expressed concerns about the deleterious effects … Read more
What once had the potential to be one of the more dramatic sentencings in modern United States history ended in the most banal of ways…via video chat, Donald Trump calling in from Florida (ANGELA WEISS) It was, by many measures, a trial like New York had definitely seen before — a panel of citizen jurors … Read more