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Facebook Needs Regulation to Win User Trust, Zuckerberg Says
Natalia Drozdiak, Bloomberg, Tuesday February 17, 2020, 28 January 2020Facebook is now pleading for governments to introduce new rules that will help it win back user trust after years of lobbying against any legislative efforts to impose new regulations. "If we don't create standards that people feel are legitimate, they won't trust institutions or technology," said Facebook's Chief Executive Officer Mark...
socio political environment
community relations
Top Five Predictions for 2020
Wayne BurnsWelcome to the Roaring 20s of the 21st Century, and to the Centre’s Top Five Predictions for the coming year.
Looking back on our top prediction for 2019 – that more companies would become involved in advocacy around social and political issues – we have some confidence that our socio political and...
socio political environment
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
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
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
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
Google sued by the ACCC over alleged misuse of personal data
Stephen Letts, ABC News, Tuesday 29th October 2019, 22 October 2019The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has become the first regulator in the world to take on Google, as it sues the company over allegations it has been misleading consumers about the personal location data it collects, keeps and uses. In documents lodged with the court, the ACCC said Google...
socio political environment
Dissent Erupts at Facebook Over Hands-Off Stance on Political Ads
Mike Isaac, The New York Times, Monday 28th October 2019, 21 October 2019 In a sign of growing internal resistance at the world’s biggest social network, a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, signed by more than 250 employees, decrying the company’s position on political advertising, has been publicly visible on Facebook Workplace for the past two weeks. Employees are unhappy about Mr Zuckerberg’s decision to let...
socio political environment
Bank of England boss says global finance is funding 4C temperature rise
Richard Partington, The Guardian, Wednesday October 16, 2019, 10 October 2019The governor of the Bank of England has delivered a stark warning to international capital markets over the financing of carbon-producing projects that will lift global temperatures by more than four degrees this century. Mark Carney, the governor of Britain’s central bank suggested companies had secured financing from investors in the market...
socio political environment
corporate responsibility