Zuckerberg in push to recover lost trust by embracing free speech but damage Facebook’s censorship caused persists
Mark Zuckerberg: As we’ve covered before, we didn’t just cross lines – we crossed sacred Rubicons created after humanity’s darkest chapters. The First Amendment, born from the revolution against tyranny and the Nuremberg Code, established after World War II’s horrors, were meant to be unbreakable guardians of human rights.
Billionaires who rule world and space see no threat in Musk-Trump lies as Bezos readies Blue Origin
Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, has a $3 billion contract with NASA to land humans on the moon under Artemis, following missions by SpaceX’s Starship, Musk’s fully reusable rocket in development that is designed to put humans and cargo on both the moon and Mars.
Glowing object that landed in Makueni was not debris as claimed by Kenya Space Agency, no one knows where it came from
Some space trackers believe the object may not have come from space at all
Pre-emption: Justice department in Trump’s first regime loved leaking information to Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers
The watchdog referred its findings to the federal Office of Special Counsel to investigate whether any of the officials violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits using government positions for partisan purposes.
Urbanising in poverty: Kenyan startup city shines light on what Africa has to do in readiness for 900 million urban residents
Situated on 5,000 acres, Tatu City aspires to be what its name suggests: a city, privately owned, that its designers hope will eventually have a population of 250,000. It is already home to 88 businesses employing 15,000 people. They include CCI Global, which operates a 5,000-seat call center, and Zhende Medical, a Chinese medical supply manufacturer.
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.
CNN defamation trial comes at a rough time for legacy media and for the struggling network
CNN said in court papers that Young’s case amounts to “defamation by implication” and that he hadn’t actually been accused of nefarious acts. The initial story he complained about didn’t even mention Young until three minutes in, CNN lawyer David Axelrod argued on Tuesday.
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.
