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Donald Trump is testing his political strength for the second straight week Tuesday, this time in Nebraska, where the former president is backing a candidate for governor accused of sexually assaulting multiple women. Trump’s pick in the tight three-way GOP gubernatorial primary is cattle producer and businessman Charles Herbster, who had been leading the field of Republicans running for governor. But in mid-April a Republican state senator, Julie Slama, and seven other women said Herbster… Source link

Google has publicized two main ways it deals with child abuse images on its systems, but it doesn’t talk much about how it detects explicit animated material. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) Getty Images Over the last two decades, tech giants have had to deal with an ever-growing deluge of videos and images of child sexual abuse on their platforms. As Apple recently found out, it’s a difficult problem to solve, where scanning people’s devices and online accounts… Source link

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. A sexual assault case at Alibaba has sparked a new round of #MeToo reckoning in China. Industry observers believe this is a watershed moment for the fight against China’s allegedly misogynist tech industry. Meanwhile, social media operators are still undecided on how to deal with the unprecedented public uproar against the… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has fired a manager accused of rape, moving to contain the fallout after an employee’s account of her ordeal went viral on social media and ignited fierce debate about rampant sexism across China’s tech industry. The Chinese internet giant didn’t identify the manager. Li Yonghe, appointed just last month to lead a newly created division overseeing much of Alibaba’s non-retail businesses from food delivery to travel, has resigned alongside his… Source link

SHANGHAI, Aug 8 (Reuters) – Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said on Sunday it has suspended several staff following an employee’s allegations on the company’s intranet that she was sexually assaulted by her boss and a client. The woman’s account, published via an eleven-page PDF that went on to circulate widely online, prompted a social media storm on China’s Twitter-like microblogging website Weibo. Police in the city of Jinan said on Sunday morning that they were… Source link

Associated Press Judge OKs Weinstein’s extradition for California rape case A New York judge on Tuesday approved disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s extradition to California, where he faces additional sexual assault charges, ending a legal fight prolonged by the COVID-19 pandemic, the defense’s concerns about Weinstein’s failing health and a squabble over paperwork. Judge Kenneth Case said there was no reason to delay Weinstein’s transfer any longer, denying his lawyer’s request to keep… Source link

Neymar said on Instagram that he “was not given the opportunity to defend himself” against sexual assault allegations from a Nike employee. (John Berry/Getty Images) Paris Saint-Germain star Neymar responded to Nike’s “lies” on Friday after a report claimed the reason he and the company’s split was due to the fact that he declined to cooperate with a sexual assault investigation. Nike and Neymar parted ways in 2020, though no reason was given at the time. On Thursday, The Wall Street… Source link

A woman filed a lawsuit against Yasiel Puig last year, alleging that he sexually assaulted her in a Staples Center bathroom in 2018. (Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images) Former MLB outfielder Yasiel Puig denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman at a Los Angeles Lakers game in 2018 in a statement on Tuesday afternoon. The woman filed a lawsuit over the incident in October, and alleged that Puig sexually assaulted her in a bathroom at the Staples Center while they were at the Lakers’… Source link

HOUSTON — A third civil suit filed against Deshaun Watson alleges the Houston Texans quarterback forced a massage therapist to perform oral sex on him during a session with a woman in December of 2020. This is now the third sexual assault and harassment civil suit filed against Watson since Tuesday, each involving a female massage therapist represented by Houston attorney Tony Buzbee. A league source told Yahoo Sports on Thursday that the NFL’s investigative arm, led by senior vice… Source link

The Guardian Undocumented Texans are reeling from last month’s storm – and they’re cut off from federal aid After four years of family separations and deportations, many are reluctant to seek help after the natural disaster Austin Texas Musicians distrubute Fema emergency diaster relief boxes to residents affected by the winter storm crisis. Photograph: Sandy Carson/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock Weeks after a deadly Arctic blast walloped Texas, Maria still didn’t have reliable water at… Source link