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Image: Getty / Gizmodo United Airlines has been a real dick lately. On Monday morning, the world woke up to a very disturbing video of a hapless passenger being bloodied and dragged off an overbooked flight so that a United employee flying stand-by could fly instead. This is just the latest in an increasingly enraging…
Image: AP United’s market capitalization, essentially the current value of the company, has fallen by more than $750 million from $22.5 billion after a video showing a bloodied United passenger who was dragged off a flight made headlines on Monday. At the time of publication, United’s market cap has slid to $21.70 billion. United’s CEO…
There’s a saying that is sometimes attributed to Karl Marx or Slavoj Zizek—apocryphally, in both cases—that tidily sums up the existential angst some Americans feel at the start of a traditional work week: You don’t hate Mondays. You hate capitalism. The simple thesis here is that there’s nothing intrinsic to “Monday,” which is just a…
Google has discriminated against its female employees, according to the US Department of Labor (DoL), which said it had evidence of “systemic compensation disparities”. As part of an ongoing DoL investigation, the government has collected information that suggests the internet search giant is violating federal employment laws with its salaries for women, agency officials said….
Image: Facebook/Audra D. Bridges On Sunday, a man was forcibly dragged off a United flight headed from Chicago to Louisville after he refused to give up his seat to a United employee who “needed to be in Louisville” for a flight the following day, The Courier-Journal reports. Passenger Audra Bridges, who uploaded a video of…
Google-owned YouTube is curbing advertising on some channels as it seeks to reduce pairing ads with inappropriate content YouTube on Thursday stopped placing ads on channels with fewer than 10,000 views in a move aimed at preventing people from making money off offensive or pirated videos. /4988204/Phys_Story_InText_Box The move came with YouTube striving to derail…
Auto-play videos lurking in unopened tabs. Pop-ups that won’t go away. Photos that won’t load. Text that’s invaded by ads. It’s hard to complain about the internet without feeling like a mom struggling to post on Facebook, but going online has started to feel like an assault on the senses. The internet so often feels…
react-text: 214 Pepsi /react-text react-text: 215 pulled its /react-text react-text: 217 controversial commercial featuring Kendall Jenner as a protester /react-text react-text: 218 following significant backlash on social media. /react-text react-text: 220 “Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding. Clearly, we missed the mark, and we apologize,” the company said…
Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” The Unfit President Unlike George W. Bush and Barack Obama before him, Trump doesn’t seem to care about working out or eating healthy. Google Metadata Michelle Kondrich / The Atlantic When Teddy Roosevelt was in office, he had the White House basement coated with mats. An avid martial…
First Family Jared Kushner, White House C.E.O. and Trump Princeling, Visits Iraq The First Son-in-Law cements his power in the White House with a surprise trip to Baghdad. Jared Kushner prior to a meeting with automobile industry leaders in the Roosevelt Room, January 24, 2017. From AP Photo. It was a mostly sunny, milder-than-average 70…