#Corporate Accountability
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🇺🇸 Walmart to pay $100 million to settle FTC case on delivery driver wages
[USA]
The Federal Trade Commission, joined by 11 states, claimed that the retail giant deceived its employees about pay and the tips they could earn.
Related: #Wage Transparency, #Labor Rights -
🇺🇸 Woman suing Meta, YouTube over social media addiction takes the stand at trial
[USA]
Related: #Social Media Addiction, #Mental Health, #Youth Protection
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🇺🇸 Streetwise — Lloyd Blankfein’s memoir of his turbulent time at Goldman Sachs
[USA]
The former chief delivers a sharp insider’s guide to the boom and bust era of financial services that took the shine off the investment bank
Related: #Financial Leadership, #Banking Ethics -
🇺🇸 Facebook designed an app for teens called Bell but never launched it, court records reveal
[USA]
An internal Facebook presentation from 2018 describes a messaging-based app called Bell that would have allowed high school students to communicate with their classmates.
Related: #Social Media Strategy, #Teen Privacy, #Youth Development -
🇬🇧 Sydney Water ordered to clean Malabar treatment plant where fatberg is birthing poo balls
[United Kingdom]
<p>Environment watchdog says water corporation is ‘responsible for ensuring it doesn’t pollute our beautiful beaches’</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/feb/23...
Related: #Environmental Protection, #Infrastructure Challenges, #Public Health -
🇺🇸 Trump demands Netflix fire Susan Rice as DOJ probes Warner deal
[USA]
Rice argued during a podcast last week that "it is not going to end well" for corporations, news organizations, and law firms that "bent the knee" to Trump.
Related: #Political Pressure, #Media Consolidation -
🇺🇸 Trump Says Netflix Should Fire Board Member Susan Rice “Immediately, or Pay the Consequences”
[USA]
His comments come after Rice said in a recent interview that those who have "take[n] a knee to Trump, I think they are now starting to realize, ‘Wait a minute, this is not popular. Trump is not popula...
Related: #Political Conflict, #Media Industry -
🇬🇧 Australia-US minerals deal underpinned decision to allow Alcoa to keep clearing WA forest, document reveals
[United Kingdom]
<p>Document also shows US miner had been unlawfully clearing land for 15 years despite warnings from department</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sf...
Related: #Environmental Policy, #International Relations -
🇺🇸 NASA Blames Itself and Boeing for Botched Starliner Flight Test
[USA]
In a report released nearly two years after Boeing’s botched Starliner mission to the International Space Station, NASA put the mishap in the same category as the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle...
Related: #Space Safety, #Government Oversight -
🇺🇸 NASA report paints damning picture of Boeing mishap that stranded two astronauts in space
[USA]
A NASA investigation of Boeing’s bungled 2024 flight to the International Space Station, which stranded two astronauts there, revealed rampant mistrust and insufficient testing.
Related: #Space Safety, #Government Oversight -
🇺🇸 Cellebrite cut off Serbia citing abuse of its phone unlocking tools. Why not others?
[USA]
Cellebrite, which makes phone unlocking and hacking tools, stopped sales to countries that allegedly abused its tools. But after new allegations in Jordan and Kenya, the company has changed its approa...
Related: #Human Rights, #Technology Ethics -
🇺🇸 NASA chief slams Boeing, agency failures in botched Starliner astronaut mission
[USA]
Related: #Space Exploration, #Aerospace Industry, #Space Safety
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🇺🇸 Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens
[USA]
Meta's CEO was questioned over the addictive nature of its social media apps like Instagram, and other teen harms.
Related: #Social Media Regulation, #Teen Mental Health, #Legal Challenges for Big Tech -
🇺🇸 Zuckerberg quizzed on kids' Instagram use during testimony in unprecedented social media trial
[USA]
Mark Zuckerberg and opposing lawyers dueled in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday, where the Meta CEO answered questions about young people's use of Instagram, his congressional testimony and intern...
Related: #Social Media Regulation, #Child Safety on Digital Platforms, #Public Transparency -
🇺🇸 Mark Zuckerberg faces intense questioning in social media addiction trial
[USA]
Mark Zuckerberg took the stand on Wednesday to fight off allegations that Instagram was intentionally designed to be addictive, especially to kids. Jo Ling Kent was in the courtroom and has more on th...
Related: #Social Media Regulation, #Tech Ethics, #Youth Protection -
🇺🇸 Mark Zuckerberg faces questions about Instagram users under 13 at landmark trial
[USA]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in court on Wednesday, testifying in a pivotal trial on social media addiction and potential legal remedies. CBS News correspondent Carter Evans has the details.
Related: #Social Media Regulation, #Youth Protection -
🇺🇸 Les Wexner testifies in House Epstein investigation [USA]
Les Wexner testifies in House Epstein investigation
Related: #Congressional Investigation, #Epstein Network -
🇺🇸 Mark Zuckerberg testifies in landmark social media addiction trial
[USA]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying in a landmark social media addiction trial on Wednesday. CBS News correspondent Carter Evans has more.
Related: #Social Media, #Addiction, #Legal Proceedings, #Media Coverage -
🇺🇸 Pritzker steps down from Hyatt board, deeply regrets association with Jeffrey Epstein
[USA]
Thomas Pritzker is retiring from his role as executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels and says he deeply regrets his association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
Related: #Business Leadership, #Personal Scandal, #Epstein Fallout -
🇬🇧 'Mum might still be alive without Tui errors'
[United Kingdom]
Karen Pooley, 64, from Gloucestershire, died after falling ill at a five-star resort in Cape Verde.
Related: #Public Safety, #Medical Negligence -
🇬🇧 Al Fayed victims say cases should be investigated as human trafficking
[United Kingdom]
Police are investigating more than five people who may have facilitated Al Fayed in his alleged abuse.
Related: #Justice, #Human Trafficking -
🇺🇸 Chappell Roan Leaves Casey Wasserman Agency Over Epstein Files
[USA]
Casey Wasserman, who founded and leads the talent agency bearing his name, exchanged flirtatious emails with Ghislaine Maxwell in the early 2000s.
Related: #Entertainment Business, #Social Justice -
🇺🇸 Social media 'addicting the brains of children,' plaintiff's lawyer argues in landmark trial
[USA]
The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms
Related: #Technology Regulation, #Child Protection -
🇺🇸 Andrew Farkas Called Jeffrey Epstein “Blessing” as the Two Did Deals
[USA]
Andrew Farkas has repeatedly played down ties to Jeffrey Epstein. But they swapped business favors in the Virgin Islands, and in nearly 2,000 emails, the two expressed admiration for each other.
Related: #Legal Scandal, #Business Ethics -
🇺🇸 Palestine Action group cleared of Elbit burglary
[USA]
The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.
Related: #Legal, #Protest, #Israel-Gaza Conflict -
🇺🇸 Air India grounds Boeing jet after pilot flags possible fuel control switch defect
[USA]
The grounding comes amid an investigation into a crash last year involving an aircraft of the same model.
Related: #Aviation Safety, #Technical Maintenance -
🇺🇸 Liberia's largest gold miner repeatedly spilled dangerous chemicals, records show
[USA]
A joint investigation by The Associated Press and The Gecko Project has found that cyanide, arsenic and copper repeatedly leaked from a facility run by the largest gold miner in Liberia in recent year...
Related: #Environmental Protection, #Mining Industry, #Public Health