Tag Archives: Denial

A recent view of Milan. (Mairo Cinquetti/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) BARCELONA, Spain — A report released Friday morning by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) found that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the continent was improving compared with the spikes of new cases and hospitalizations experienced in December. But experts who spoke with Yahoo News painted a much less encouraging picture, saying the ECDC “Country Overview Report” is based on… Source link

California Supreme Court justices on Tuesday questioned an insurance company’s rationale for denying coverage to Yahoo! Inc., as the company fends off class actions arising from alleged Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations. National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., declined coverage, concluding the legacy internet company’s policies didn’t cover allegations it had sent unsolicited spam text messages, even though the parties had negotiated separate coverage for… Source link

California Supreme Court justices on Tuesday questioned an insurance company’s rationale for denying coverage to Yahoo! Inc., as the company fends of class actions arising from alleged Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations. National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., declined coverage, concluding the legacy internet company’s policies didn’t cover allegations it had sent unsolicited spam text messages, even though the parties had negotiated separate coverage for… Source link

California Supreme Court justices on Tuesday questioned an insurance company’s rationale for denying coverage to Yahoo! Inc., as the company fends off class actions arising from alleged Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations. National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., declined coverage, concluding the legacy internet company’s policies didn’t cover allegations it had sent unsolicited spam text messages, even though the parties had negotiated separate coverage for… Source link

Ahead of last month’s United Nations global climate summit, Google, the world’s biggest provider of ads online, made a big announcement: It would stop placing ads on sites that deny the scientific consensus on climate change. Banned from profiting from its advertising program, Google said, were sites and videos falsely referring to global warming as a hoax or a scam. Also no longer welcome to run Google ads: Content falsely claiming that greenhouse gas emissions, or human activity, do not… Source link

Google has struggled to uphold its recent pledge to stop running ads on content that promotes climate change denial, according to a new report from the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). The new research identified 50 articles that include lies about climate change and that still featured Google ads after the date that Google said they would be banned. Google announced a new policy in October that prohibits “ads for, and monetization of, content that contradicts… Source link

Google announced Thursday that it would no longer allow ads or monetization for content that promotes climate change denialism. The policy change will apply to publishers, advertisers and YouTube creators, who will no longer be able to make money from content that “contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change.” Google plans to enforce the new policy with a blend of algorithmic detection and human moderation and the change will… Source link

Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments. Why it matters: It’s one of the most aggressive measures any major tech platform has taken to combat climate change misinformation. Details: Google advertisers and publishers, as well as YouTube creators, will be prohibited from making ad revenue off content that contradicts “well-established scientific consensus around… Source link

Senate Democrats cited a provision in the new stimulus bill to again call on Biden to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt through an executive order — despite the president previously stating that he would not do so. “Student loan debt is crushing millions of Americans,” Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) told reporters on Monday. “President Biden has an opportunity to fix that with the stroke of a pen. This bill helps pave the way to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt.” The recently-passed… Source link

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) WASHINGTON — Over the past week, President Donald Trump posted or reposted about 145 messages on Twitter lashing out at the results of an election he lost. He mentioned the coronavirus pandemic now reaching its darkest hours four times — and even then just to assert that he was right about the outbreak and the experts were wrong. Moody and by accounts of his… Source link