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This summer, Racine was among 20 state attorneys general who wrote to Facebook urging it to do more to crack down on hate and disinformation amid an advertiser boycott over the same issues. His office also has an ongoing lawsuit against the social network over the Cambridge Analytica data breach and signed on to the antitrust lawsuits filed this month against both Facebook and Google. “They react and change policy when they are under pressure,” Racine said. “Left to their own devices they… Source link

Bikers ride down Main Street during the 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020, in Sturgis, S.D. (Amy Harris/Invision/AP) Did you whine in 2020? Were masks too much for you? Did the coronavirus pandemic cause intolerable inconvenience? Congratulations, American Snowflake—you can’t handle even modest adversity. If you lost a partner, friend or family member to Covid-19 in 2020, you had a truly awful year. More than 300,000 Americans died of Covid in 2020, and when… Source link

These are the 17 worst companies to work for in America Even if you wake up every morning dreading the start of your work day, you might still count yourself lucky that you don’t work for one of these employers. We’ve compiled a list of the worst-rated companies on Glassdoor, focusing on those with at least 10,000 employees and 1,000 reviews. In the case of ties, we prioritized companies that workers would be least likely to recommend to a friend. Each of these unloved businesses has its… Source link

GlobeNewswire Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund Inc. and Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc. NEW YORK, Nov. 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — (NYSE: AFT) – Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund Inc. and (NYSE: AIF) – Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc. (the “Funds”) announced today that the Board of each Fund has elected that each Fund be subject to the Maryland Control Share Acquisition Act (the “MCSAA”), effective immediately. Each Board believes that electing to be subject to the MCSAA protects the… Source link

TipRanks Raymond James: These 3 Stocks Are Poised to Surge by Over 80% We’re a little over one week past the Presidential election, and the market reaction shows that that investors are pleased. While the election margins were razor thin, the will of the voters came through: they rejected Donald Trump, and his brash, in-your-face style, but they also rejected the Democratic Party on policy; the Dems lost seats in the House, will likely not take control of the Senate, and also lost ground at… Source link

MEXICO CITY: America Movil chief executive officer, Daniel Hajj, said on Wednesday that the telecoms giant will reduce capital expenditure to $6 billion in 2020, down from the $8.5 billion foreseen at the start of the year. “We are going to reduce the capex from our original number this year, because execution in the lockdown was very difficult” Hajj said in a call following the third-quarter earnings on Tuesday. Hajj added that some non-essential projects were also canceled or delayed. Follow… Source link

Despite record numbers of coronavirus cases in many states across the country, there is still no coordinated response on a federal level. As a result, many states reopened their economies sooner than public health experts would have liked. And Harvard Public Health professor Dr. Howard Koh says the U.S. needs to take a step back and do a better job and battling the coronavirus as a country. “We are now seeing record cases and rising deaths for the first time in three months,” Koh said on… Source link

Google, the behemoth technology company that has become a verb for online search, is offering financial aid to students who take their certificate programs in data analysis, project management and user experience. Calling it “a digital jobs program to help America’s economic recovery,” the offering comes during record-high joblessness in the U.S. because of quarantines and shutdowns implemented to help stop the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus…. Source link