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YouTube Says It Will Ban Misleading Election-Related Content
Davey Alba, The New York Times, Monday February 3, 2020, 20 January 2020YouTube plans to remove misleading election-related content, laying out for the first time how the platform will handle such viral falsehoods with the November election around the corner. YouTube outlined its full plan on the day of the Iowa caucuses, where voters will select their preferred Democratic presidential candidate for the first time...
socio political environment
CAA: Microsoft boss calls India's new citizenship law 'sad'
BBC News, Tuesday January 14, 2019, 10 January 2020 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has called India’s controversial new citizenship law “sad”, amid ongoing protests against the law that have become violent around India in recent weeks. Thousands of protesters have marched the streets of some of India’s biggest cities against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), criticising it for being discriminatory...
socio political environment
Exxon wins New York climate change fight
BBC News, Wednesday 11th December 2019, 06 December 2019 ExxonMobil has won a court battle in New York, after being accused of misleading investors about the costs of addressing climate change. The state argued the oil giant used two figures to calculate the risks of climate change, and thus misrepresented the cost in public disclosures. Exxon said the two figures served two different purposes, and a...
corporate responsibility
Nike employees stage protest as company reopens Alberto Salazar building
The Guardian, Tuesday 10th December 2019, 05 December 2019 Hundreds of Nike employees staged a walkout in Beaverton, Oregon on Monday as the company reopened a building named after controversial athletics coach Alberto Salazar. Mr Salazar has been accused of humiliating and belittling female athletes, and last month admitted he had made “callous remarks” to athletes. “On occasion, I may have made comments...
socio political environment
Green lawyers launch complaint over BP ad campaign amid ‘climate emergency’
Emily Beament, Belfast Telegraph UK, Tuesday December 3, 2019, 26 November 2019 Environmental legal charity ClimateEarth has triggered an official complaint against BP, claiming the company is misleading consumers about its low carbon credentials in advertising campaigns in the UK and elsewhere. The lawyers behind the complaint also said fossil fuel adverts should be banned unless they carry a planetary and person health...
advocacy
corporate responsibility
Step up climate action or face catastrophe, says UN report
Barbara Bibbo, Al Jazeera, Wednesday 27th November 2019 , 24 November 2019 Countries must cut their greenhouse gas emissions well beyond current pledges in order to prevent catastrophic climate change, according to a United Nations report released on Tuesday. The annual Emissions Gap Report points out the United States and China, Russia and the European Union particularly as doing too little to tackle the climate crisis....
public policy
socio political environment
Activists Build a Grass-Roots Alliance Against Amazon
David Streitfeld, The New York Times, Tuesday November 26, 2019, 23 November 2019Athena, the grass-roots alliance formed to influence and rein in Amazon’s power, is now looking to unify the resistance movement against the tech giant. The coalition comprises three dozen grass-roots groups that are involved in issues like digital surveillance, antitrust and working conditions in warehouses. Pressure on Amazon’s practices have...
advocacy
Easyjet to offset carbon emissions from all its flights
Gwyn Topham, The Guardian, Wednesday 20th November 2019, 20 November 2019 Easyjet announced on Tuesday it would offset carbon emissions from all its flights, becoming the world’s first major airline to operate net-zero carbon flights across its network. The British budget airline said its plan would cost about £25m in the next financial year through schemes to plant trees or avoid the release of additional carbon...
csr
corporate responsibility
TikTok’s Chief Is on a Mission to Prove It’s Not A Menace
Raymond Zhong, The New York Times, Monday 18th November 2019, 18 November 2019 In recent months, TikTok has emerged as the refreshing weirdo upstart of the American social media landscape, reconfiguring the culture in its joyful, strange wake. But to some in the US government, it is a menace – namely because of the nationality of its owner, a seven-year-old Chinese social media company called ByteDance. Some in the...
socio political environment
Five Ways that ESG creates value
Witold Henisz, Tim Koller and Robin Nuttall, McKinsey & Company, 14 November 2019Getting your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) proposition right links to higher value creation. As a result, ESG is an inextricable part of how you do business, and its individual elements are themselves intertwined. Hence, thinking and acting on ESG in a proactive way has lately become even more pressing. The US...
corporate reputation
corporate responsibility
governance