Elon Musk sat down for an interview with Wall Street Journal for their CEO Council Summit, appearing before the conference remotely from Tesla Headquarters. Many in attendance were CEOs and business leaders. Musk went on to mock those in attendance by stating any Chief position, like CEO or CFO is a made up position. He…
Harry Wilmerding on November 3, 2021 The company behind popular snacks like Oreos announced Tuesday that it would increase its prices to combat the rising cost of inflation, multiple sources reported. Mondelez International, the company behind Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and Sour Patch Kids, is expected to raise prices by up to 7% in the…
Ailan Evans on October 4, 2021 Platforms owned by Facebook all experienced outages at the same time late Monday morning, and could not be accessed. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all went down Monday morning, according to outage tracking site Downdetector. Facebook was first reported down around 11:15 a.m., with reports peaking around 12 p.m. with…
Thomas Catenacci on May 26, 2021 Liberal media fact checkers were quick to label reporters and lawmakers who supported the lab leak theory as conspiracy theorists in the wake of the 2020 coronavirus outbreak. “We can’t disregard these as lunatic conspiracy theories on the fringes,” Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, a progressive media watchdog, stated…
Andrew Kerr The Wall Street Journal left out a critical detail in its report Tuesday about China’s top virologist on bat-borne viruses saying her lab in Wuhan has no connection to the coronavirus outbreak. TheWSJ did not include in its report that the virologist told the Scientific American in March she lost sleep worrying about the possibility that her Wuhan…
Joshua Gill on February 7, 2019 An Australian study found that researchers, clinicians and English language scientific journals have published data provided by illegal, forced organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience. The study’s author called for the retraction of over 400 scientific papers allegedly tainted with such data, calling the journals and researchers complicit in…
Neetu Chandak on January 19, 2019 The Los Angeles Unified School District lost around $100 million over five days due to the strike led by United Teachers Los Angeles, the district estimates. The district estimates student attendance is dropping substantially. The union and district are back at the negotiating table, but…
Neetu Chandak on January 9, 2019 A Los Angeles teacher’s union recently turned down the school district’s offer to reduce classroom sizes and increase staff numbers as a teacher strike looms if a deal is not met. The Unified Teachers of Los Angles (UTLA) is demanding the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to: Use $1.9…