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Morrison: Competition Needed in ESG Consultancy Market
September 07, 2020
Writing in National Review Online, Richard Morrison explains why, as consulting firms engaged in advising for-profit companies about how to comply with environmental, social and governance ("ESG") standards do so from a progressive perspective, there is a need to encourage more free-market conservative ESG consultants to develop competing standards and enter the field.
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China AI Export Restrictions May Sideline Sale of TikTok to U.S. Buyers
September 02, 2020
New Chinese Government restrictions on the export of artificial intelligence algorithm technologies, including TikTok's "personalized content recommendation" tool, are raising doubts about the completion of a sale Company's U.S. operations.
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Facebook's New Terms Expand the Company's Ability to Remove Content
September 02, 2020
Facebook's new terms rolling out October 1st will now allow the tech giant to remove or restrict access to any content if the company believes that such an action can help it avoid or mitigate potential legal or regulatory action, thereby expanding the company's control over their platform.
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NYT: Study Finds Amazon's Employee Surveillance Can Limit Unions
September 01, 2020
A recent study conducted by Open Markets Institute raises concerns that Amazon's use of surveillance to monitor employee COVID-19-related health and productivity, including navigation software, item scanners, wristbands, thermal cameras, security cameras and recorded footage in warehouses and stores, may be limiting the possibility of union organization.
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TikTok Removes 380,000 Videos in US for Violating Hate Speech Policy
August 24, 2020
Since the beginning of 2020, in keeping with the company's hate speech policy focusing on the removal of speech considered to be race-based harassment or promoting hate group organization, TikTok has removed 380,000 videos and banned 1,300 accounts.
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