A former Facebook employee, Frances Haugen, has blown the whistle on some of the company's procedures, sending information to legislators, regulators, and The Wall Street Journal. Haugen believes the company doesn't do enough to limit certain kinds of content on its platform. Jeff Horwitz reports: Ms. Haugen was initially asked to build tools to study the potentially malicious targeting of information at specific communities. Her team, comprising her and four other new hires, was given three months to build a system to detect the practice, a schedule she considered implausible. She didn’t … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2021
OUT OF OFFICE: Big Accounting Firm Tells 40,000 Employees to Stay Home
More companies are recognizing the benefits of having employees remain at home. Accounting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers has told 40,000 of its staff that they can continue to work remotely, forever if they choose. Moves like this by big companies will undoubtedly be a boon for "Zoom towns" across America. Daily Mail reports: Working from home is about to become permanent option for 40,000 client services employees at accounting and consulting firm PwC. The company will become one of the biggest employers in America to embrace permanent remote work. PwC employees who choose to work … [Read more...]
THERE’S A PILL FOR THAT: Merck Preparing COVID Therapy Pill
Merck is preparing a COVID treatment in pill form with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics that could cut hospitalizations and deaths from COVID by 50%. Timothy Annett and Emma Court report for Bloomberg: Merck & Co. shares posted their biggest gain in 12 years after the company’s experimental pill slashed the risk of getting seriously ill or dying from Covid-19 in a study, findings that could eventually yield a simple way to treat many virus patients before they ever reach the hospital. The drug, known as molnupiravir, reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by 50% in an interim analysis … [Read more...]
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