Just when you thought things couldn’t possibly get any worse, a new report from Deutsche Bank may give you a new reason to stay up at night. Deutsche Bank analysts, led by Henry Allen, say there is at least a one-in-three chance that at least one of four major tail risks will occur within the […]

Did you know the normal human virome contains a multitude of different viruses, including many strains of coronavirus? And did you know that some of these viruses sound scary – the type people normally associate with disease – even though the person carrying them may be completely healthy and/or asymptomatic? As discussed in previous articles, […]

NBC News reporter Adele-Momoko Fraser claimed Tuesday that she did not “collaborate” with an activist organization — despite initially calling its efforts “collaboration” — on a story about Google banning the libertarian website ZeroHedge from its ad platform and threatening the conservative website The Federalist with the same fate unless it removed its comment section. Fraser originally reported […]

Say hello to Imran Ahmed. Mr Ahmed is the Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). That is not a typo by the way, at least as far as Companies House is concerned. The CCDH’s remit is ‘finding practical solutions to the use of identity-based hate to polarise societies and undermine democracy’. Their strategy appears […]

Labour has urged global tech companies and the UK government to take action to tackle disinformation that is spreading on social media platforms during the coronavirus crisis. Jo Stevens, Labour’s culture and media spokesperson, said: “Combatting the impact of the global Covid-19 crisis is difficult enough, without the uncontrolled spread of extremely harmful content on […]

The NBC journalist who wrote the piece which initially seemed to prompt Google‘s decision to defund ZeroHedge and to caution The Federalist is Adele-Momoko Fraser, a British journalist with two years of experience. She quoted a Google spokeswoman who said both ZeroHedge and The Federalist had been stripped of their ability to monetize.  Momoko-Fraser is believed […]

A plan to release a horde of 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida and Texas is a step closer to fruition after a state regulator approved the idea, over the objections of many environmentalists.People v mosquitos: what to do about our biggest killerRead more Oxitec, a British-based biotechnology company, has targeted the US as […]

Currently, we’re living in an upside-down and backward world where the minority of people hold all the microphones, successfully shouting over a potential majority of people who don’t like the way things are going. I truly believe that most Americans don’t hate their neighbors, don’t indulge in cruelty for the sake of cruelty, don’t indulge […]