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Ackman: Stakeholder Capitalism will make Inflation «Persistant and Growing »
November 08, 2021
Pershing Square Capital Management’s founder Bill Ackman joins the growing debate on inflation, stating that stakeholder capitalism will make inflation ‘persistent and growing’—not ‘transitory’.
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Bloomberg: How and Why Internet Companies Moderate Speech Online
October 20, 2021
Sarah Frier, Naomi Nix, and Sarah Kopit explain the basics of how and why companies moderate speech online.
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Government Ordering Google to Identify Users Relating to Potential Criminal Conduct Raises Concerns
October 13, 2021
Privacy advocates express alarm that the U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, which may implicate innocent Web users in serious crimes.
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Whistleblower Urges Congress to Evaluate Facebook Practices
October 06, 2021
In recent testimony, Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, alleged that Facebook's algorithms' design results in profits being put before users' health and safety.
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Facebook Invests $50 million to Promote Responsible Behavior in 'Metaverse'
September 29, 2021
Facebook has announced a $50 million investment to promote responsible behavior in the 'metaverse," which Facebook intends to become a digital world where people can use different devices to move and communicate in a virtual environment.
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WEF Announces Support for Stakeholder Capitalism
September 22, 2021
The World Economic Forum has announced the continued growth of the coalition of companies supporting the Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics Initiative.
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White & Case: The Rise of Stakeholder Capitalism
September 14, 2021
Jessica Lynd and Walter Spak of White & Case have published on JDSupra.com an overview of the transition from Milton Friedman's "shareholder primacy" doctrine to the recent movement that shifts corporate focus from "shareholder primacy" to stakeholder capitalism, whose goal, according to the World Economic Forum, is to seek long-term value creation by taking into account the needs of all their stakeholders, and society at large.
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Millions of VIP Facebook Users Shielded from Standard Moderation Protocols
September 14, 2021
According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook is using a program known as « cross check » or « XCheck » that shields at least 5.8 million VIP Facebook users from the company’s standard content moderation.
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Butler: The Dangers of TikTok
September 10, 2021
Jack Butler writing in the National Review, explores the history and dangers of the popular application TikTok including its questionable practices collecting users data and reputable reports that the app is compromised by the Chinese government.
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Edmans: Two Years Later, Has the Business Roundtable Statement Transformed Capitalism?
September 08, 2021
Alex Edmans, a Professor of Finance at London Business School and Academic Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance explores the impact on capitalism of the Business Roundtable Statement two years after it was redefined and put in place.