Facebook’s brazen ban of President Trump should concern every American
The Facebook Oversight Board’s decision upholding President Donald Trump’s Facebook ban undermines the First Amendment and free speech. The brazen ban of President Trump is already chilling the speech of other Facebook users and Internet users generally, who fairly worry about Facebook and Big Tech censoring and de-platforming them. I...
Equatorial Guinea hires a US firm to do a documentary on its oil energy potential
Energy Capital & Power (ECP) has announced a partnership with Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons for the premier US-Africa Energy Forum 2021. ECP in partnership with Equatorial Guinea’s MMH officially commenced work in-country on the Africa Energy Series: Equatorial Guinea 2021 special investor report and documentary film on...
When sea science needed money, Navy loosened purse strings and discoveries followed!
These two statements are uncontroversial: the path of science is more or less determined by the educated curiosity of scientists; the funding of science is sometimes based on condition of usefulness. So, does usefulness affect science’s path? Sometimes it does, especially when the funder has skin in the game. Pharmaceutical...
The Bill and Melinda Gates divorce, wealth memes are just too funny to ignore
First, let’s get one thing out of the way: Memes aren’t supposed to be comfortable or nice. Hopefully they induce laughter, but they’re not above doing it at others’ expense. I get all that. And yet, I have got to say, all of these memes about Bill and Melinda Gates’...
Facebook under fire for allowing drug, beer ads that target children below 17
Teenagers on Facebook can be targeted by adverts endorsing alcohol, drugs, gambling, smoking and eating disorders, according to a report by a watchdog group. The Tech Transparency Project created six test adverts and submitted them to Facebook, saying it wanted to reach users aged 13 to 17. Facebook approved all...
