Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are backing the campaign #StopHateForProfit, which is calling for major companies to pull their advertising campaigns from Facebook until the social media giant takes action to stop the spread of so-called hate speech, civil rights group NAACP has confirmed. The Baltimore-based civil rights organization, which was founded in 1909, took to […]

One of the country’s biggest pub chains has said it will not force drinkers to hand over their contact details – fearing the policy will put them off. Ralph Findlay, chief executive of Marston’s, is also refusing to make staff wear masks, claiming pubs should not feel like hospitals. He said customers would be able […]

Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell says the World Health Organization made “a total mistake” when it included Sweden in a list of countries seeing a resurgence of the coronavirus. The WHO misinterpreted the Swedish data, Tegnell said. “It is a total mistake,” Tegnell said, according to Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Radio. Sweden has been closely watched […]

A prominent businessman said he meant no offence after being caught up in a “blackface” row in a Fife village. Duncan Collier, who runs a local haulage, quarrying and recycling business, drove a vintage tractor through Crossgates, dressed as a brown bear, to hand out gala goodie bags to  youngsters. His choice of attire raised […]

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Congress on Tuesday that racism has contributed to African-Americans being disproportionately impacted by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. “Well, I mean, obviously the African American community has suffered from racism for a very, very long period of time,” Fauci replied when asked […]

Spikes in coronavirus cases abroad should act as a warning to Britons who flout social distancing rules, Boris Johnson has said. The PM said crowds on Bournemouth beach on Thursday suggested people needed to understand that “mingling too much” could set the UK back. He said people in other countries had been “taking too many […]

When the American Civil Liberties Union ran a test of Amazon.com Inc.’s facial recognition technology, the software falsely matched 28 members of Congress, many of them minorities, with mugshots of arrested people from police files. Now, some of those lawmakers are drafting new legislation to curtail the use of facial recognition by police departments and […]

L’Oreal is removing the words “white,” “fair’ and “light” from beauty products it’s now describing as “skin-evening,” making it the latest corporation to succumb to virtue-signaling pressure amid the BLM protests. The world’s largest cosmetics company announced the change on Friday, after being called out by social media users and activists who have criticized brands […]

Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates lamented the US is ‘not even close’ to doing enough to fight the pandemic, before warning that the vaccine he wants to inject into every human on the planet does require their consent first. Speaking to Anderson Cooper at a CNN town hall on Thursday, Gates insisted the US was “experiencing […]

The Pentagon should release a public report on UFOs, argues the U.S. Senate intelligence committee. In addition to requiring a public report, the committee plans to impose new rules on how the Department of Defense (DOD) shares information about UFOs. Unidentified flying objects — a term that refers to objects that are literally unidentified, not necessarily […]