Several human rights NGOs have joined forces in the hope of preventing Elon Musk from buying Twitter, for fear that the multi-billionaire will allow toxic behavior to explode on the platform. “If we don’t block this operation, he will give a megaphone to demagogues and extremists, who (…) incite hatred, violence and harassment”, Nicole Gill, … Read more
Elon Musk has served ex-Twitter boss Jack Dorsey with an injunction to provide a whole series of documents, as part of the battle he launched to extricate himself from the $ 44 billion takeover deal of the social network. According to documents made public Monday, August 22, Jack Dorsey was ordered to give Elon Musk … Read more
The vote of Twitter shareholders on its acquisition by Elon Musk will take place on September 13, before the start of the lawsuit that the social network has brought against the richest man in the world in October. Twitter summoned its shareholders for a “special meetingby videoconference, according to official documents filed Tuesday with the … Read more
Consumer confidence picked up more than expected in August in the United States, due to the improving outlook on the inflation front, which relieves low- and middle-income households, according to the preliminary estimate published on Friday. by the University of Michigan. The index stood at 55.1 points, up 7% from July, and higher than the … Read more
US health authorities have approved the anti-influenza drug Xofluza for children from the age of five, a first for children of this age, the Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche announced on Friday August 12. The US drug agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has given the green light to use this treatment for children aged … Read more
US health authorities on Tuesday authorized a new procedure for injecting the monkeypox vaccine which should make it possible to vaccinate more people with the same amount of product, at a time when doses are lacking in the country. The United States Medicines Agency (FDA) has also authorized the administration of the vaccine in individuals … Read more
Productivity in the United States suffered its biggest drop on record in the second quarter, while businesses saw labor costs rise the fastest since 1982, contributing to the high inflation the country is experiencing. From April to June, productivity fell 2.5% compared to the same period last year, according to the preliminary estimate released Tuesday … Read more
A bear managed to sneak into a car in the rural state of Montana, but was unable to open the door to get out, remaining stuck in the vehicle all night. The plantigrade got into the blue car “a little after eleven o’clock at night“and stayed there”until seven in the morning“Explained last week Mike Pilati, … Read more
The American authorities announced Monday August 8 that they wanted to seize in Kazakhstan the Airbus A319 of the Russian oligarch and parliamentarian Andrei Skotch, targeted by American and European sanctions in the wake of Moscow’s outbreak of the war in Ukraine. American justice obtained a “mandate” for the “seizureof this private Airbus A319-100 belonging … Read more
The Republican Party announced on Friday August 5 that it would hold its 2024 national convention to induct its presidential candidate in the US state of Wisconsin, won by a hair’s breadth by Joe Biden in 2020. Organized every four years a few months before the presidential election, the national conventions are political high masses … Read more