Tag: Media & Big Tech

White House Says Fox Pulled Out of Biden’s Super Bowl Interview; Fox Says He’s Still Invited

President Joe Biden will not sit for a pre-Super Bowl interview with Fox before the network airs the game on Sunday, according to a statement from the White House. In a later statement, Fox said that Biden is still invited to sit for the interview. “The President was looking forward to an interview with Fox…


Yahoo Slashing 20 Percent of Its Workforce by the End of 2023

Yahoo announced that the layoff of more than 20 percent of its workforce by the end of 2023. The tech company said it would eliminate 1,000 positions by the end of this week, the company said in a statement on Feb. 9. A total of more than 1,600 employees are expected lose their jobs in these…


Disney’s Iger Reveals He Doesn’t Want to Stay on as CEO Much Longer

Disney CEO Bob Iger said he doesn’t want to stay on as the company’s chief executive any longer than two years, with his remarks coming as the company announced it would cut $5.5 billion in costs and slash 7,000 jobs. Iger told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Thursday that he plans to to stay…


PREMIERING NOW: Aaron Siri (Part 1): Why Are Vaccine Manufacturers the Most Protected Companies in America?

“When we finally had that data, you got a sense of why they didn’t want the public to have it, because it showed that 7.7 percent of the over 10 million V-safe users reported needing medical care after a COVID-19 vaccine.” Aaron Siri, managing partner at Siri & Glimstad, has led several high-profile lawsuits against…


Aaron Siri (Part 1): Why Are Vaccine Manufacturers the Most Protected Companies in America?

“When we finally had that data, you got a sense of why they didn’t want the public to have it, because it showed that 7.7 percent of the over 10 million V-safe users reported needing medical care after a COVID-19 vaccine.” Aaron Siri, managing partner at Siri & Glimstad, has led several high-profile lawsuits against…


Donald Trump Reinstated on Facebook, Instagram

Meta restored former President Donald Trump’s access to Facebook and Instagram on Feb. 9. Andy Stone, spokesperson for the Big Tech firm, told Reuters that Trump’s access was restored. The former president has 23 million followers on Instagram and 34 million on Facebook. It came weeks after Meta said in a statement that his Facebook and Instagram…


Donald Trump Reinstated on Facebook and Instagram

Meta restored former President Donald Trump’s access to Facebook and Instagram on Thursday afternoon, coming weeks after the firm announced it would do so. A review of both of Trump’s accounts shows that both pages appeared to have been restored on Thursday. Trump has not posted content to either account. Andy Stone, spokesperson for the…


Musk Says Twitter Will Be Back Up on Thursday After Outage

Twitter owner Elon Musk said the social media app should be back up later in the day after some users were unable to tweet on Wednesday, prematurely encountering a message that said “You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets.” Musk wrote on Twitter early on Thursday that there were multiple “internal and external…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Aaron Siri (Part 1): Why Are Vaccine Manufacturers the Most Protected Companies in America?

“When we finally had that data, you got a sense of why they didn’t want the public to have it, because it showed that 7.7 percent of the over 10 million V-safe users reported needing medical care after a COVID-19 vaccine.” Aaron Siri, managing partner at Siri & Glimstad, has led several high-profile lawsuits against…


EU Complains Twitter Seems to Lack Appetite for Censorship

European Union authorities have complained that Twitter doesn’t seem to be taking the bloc’s fight against “disinformation” seriously by producing an incomplete report on compliance with its rules on censorship. Elon Musk’s Twitter lagged behind the likes of Google, Meta, and TikTok in the fight against “disinformation” over the past six months, the European Commission…