Painful truths: Florida grand jury finds ‘profound and serious’ issues with vaccine manufacture and safety in US
The investigation revealed that departing FDA staff who take industry jobs are allowed to influence the FDA “behind the scenes.”
Merchants of death: How Modern and other Covid vaccine manufacturers raked in billions patients died during trials
Moderna’s European filing also revealed that the company withheld trial results demonstrating that children under 12 who received the vaccine were ten times more likely than those who received the placebo to suffer “serious side effects.”
Trump’s bare-knuckled election campaign speeches give Facebook chief reason to roll back hate speech
Arturo Béjar, a former engineering director at Meta known for his expertise on curbing online harassment, said while most of the attention has gone to the company’s fact-checking announcement on Tuesday, he is more worried about the changes to Meta’s harmful content policies.
Quincy Jones: Chicago-born Black music and film icon born and lived in penury, sometimes eating rats for supper then rose to stardom
Over the course of 91 years, Quincy Jones did pretty much everything you could do in the entertainment industry. He was a musician, arranger, composer, solo artist, record company executive, mogul, entrepreneur and a producer not just of music but of films and TV – and, as was noted in Chris Heath’s extraordinary, headline-grabbing 2018 profile piece Quincy Jones Has a Story About That, he had known everyone. “The ghetto Gump”, as he called himself, referring to Forrest, was the thread that linked Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis to Dr Dre and the Weekend; a musician who’d appeared with Elvis Presley and Amy Winehouse, Count Basie and Bono, Nat King Cole and Young Thug; the man who had a credit on Sinatra At the Sands and Harry’s House by Harry Styles.
Zuckerberg dumps fact-checkers after CHD asks Supreme Court to hear censorship case against Facebook
ather than turning to third parties to fact-check posts, Meta will use a “Community Notes model” in which social (media) users themselves decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, said Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan in a statement.
Bureau of statistics says Kenya’s third quarter GDP growth slowed due to sweak construction, mining sectors
The World Bank has downgraded Kenya’s economic growth estimate for 2024 to 4.7 per cent, from an initial 5.0 per cent, citing the impact of floods, anti-government protests and faltering fiscal consolidation efforts.
Two weeks before Biden leaves office FBI says it had strong evidence Covid leaked from lab but US government quashed it
Journalist Paul D. Thacker, a former US Senate investigator, told The Defender the report “further reinforces what we have long known, that the intelligence community has not released all the information on Covid origins, despite a law” – the Covid-19 Origin Act of 2023 – “signed by Biden, requiring them to do so.”
Purchasing Managers’ Index shows Kenya private sector activity expanded marginally in December
The economy is estimated to have grown 5.2 per cent in 2024 and projected to expand 5.4 per centin 2025, the finance ministry says. The economy grew 5.6 per cent in 2023.
NSE reinstates Kenya Airways shares on the stock market, it can now trade again
One of Africa’s three biggest carriers, Kenya Airways slid into insolvency in 2018 after an expansion drive left it with hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.
Small businesses worry Trump’s next regime will be corrupt, controlled by crooks and the little guy is guaranteed losses
Take Trump’s promised tariff war. Under the new round of tariffs, economists warned, only the biggest businesses – those with the connections to flatter Trump and the resources to hire lobbyists – will be the big winners.
