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Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos to Step Down as CEO
February 03, 2021
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos has announced that he will step down as CEO and plans to focus on new products and early initiatives being developed at the company as well as side projects, including his space exploration company Blue Origin, his philanthropic initiatives and overseeing The Washington Post, which he owns.
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Stakeholder Capitalism Gains Traction with New ESG Metrics
February 02, 2021
Dozens of the world's largest companies, representing trillions of dollars in market capitalization, pledged to use a uniform set of "Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics », set by the World Economic Forum and is based on four pillars: people, planet, prosperity and principles of governance.
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Facebook Oversight Board Reverses Hate Speech Takedowns
February 01, 2021
Facebook, Inc.’s independent oversight board issued its first round of rulings, overturning four out of five of the company’s decisions to remove posts with controversial content.
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KPMG Unveils New « Our Impact Plan »
January 29, 2021
KPMG published its first global environmental, social and governance (ESG) plan called « Our Impact Plan », whose goal is to bring together new and existing ESG commitments under one umbrella, focusing on four important categories: Planet, People, Prosperity and Governance.
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Lowry: American Journalists Increasingly Turn on Free Speech
January 29, 2021
Rich Lowry, writing in the NY Post, describes the gradual transformation of how American journalists, who were once the great defenders of the First Amendment, have become some of the greatest censures of free speech.