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In March 2022, hundreds of employees at The Walt Disney Company headquarters in Burbank, California staged a walkout over Disney’s response to the Parental Rights in Education act, also known as
On January 6, 2021 insurrectionists rioted at the capitol building in Washington, D.C., claiming they wanted to stop certification of the electoral ballots naming Joseph R.
Following reports of forced labor in its supply chain, fast fashion merchandiser H&M stopped sourcing cotton from China’s Xinjiang region, the site of alleged genocide.
For $500 million annually, Facebook contracts Accenture PLC to moderate content that violates its Terms of Service and is not caught by artificial intelligence.
In February 2021, Storm Uri devastated an unprepared Texas which resulted in mass power outages across the state.
Robinhood, an online trading platform, has revolutionized the trading industry by the incorporation of payment for order flow (PFOF).
Starbucks Corporation is facing a dilemma with a group of employees in Buffalo, New York attempting to form a union in response to compensation and working conditions.
Electric automaker Tesla’s Autopilot technology aims to make driving safer and more convenient. Consumer misuse, however, and numerous vehicle collisions contradict Tesla’s goal.
The Washington Redskins professional football team face a new social climate with the sudden rise of power and influence of the Black Lives Matter Movement.
The death of George Floyd sparked a cry for racial justice that infiltrated every aspect of American life in the summer of 2020, including business marketing and product branding.
In preparation for the holiday shopping season, Peloton, a home exercise equipment manufacturer and workout streaming service, created controversy with one of its advertisements in 2019.
Fast Fashion companies, including H&M, have grown considerably since the 1990s by satisfying consumers’ insatiable appetite for the latest fashionable trends at low prices.
In August 2020 – in the midst of a hotly contested U.S. presidential election – Donald J.
On June 10, 2020, the editor-in-chief of Conde Nast magazine Bon Appétit resigned amid allegations of racial discrimination.
After a terrorist attack at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, Apple received immense public pressure to comply with the FBI’s request to assist in unlocking the encrypted iPhone of the attacker.
The Coronavirus / COVID-19 crisis of 2020 resulted government restrictions on travel, accompanied by a public loss of confidence in the safety of air transport, all of which led quickly to a decl
In October 2019, Houston Rockets General Manager tweeted in support of the Hong Kong Protests. The tweet was met with outrage by the Chinese government and many Chinese fans.
The University of Surrey has filed multiple patents in the United Kingdom on behalf of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Robot, Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (DABUS).
Luxury retail brand, Canada Goose, faces opposition from a prominent animal rights group surrounding the sourcing of materials used for its jackets.
On July 12, 2018, a jury in St. Louis, Missouri, awarded $4.6 billion in damages to plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson over claims its baby powder caused ovarian cancer.