Monthly Archives: September 2022

Sarah Palin adopts Trumpworld strategy of claiming possible election fraud after losing her House race in Alaska

Sarah Palin lost in a special House election to Democratic candidate Mary Peltola. AP Photo/Mark Thiessen Sarah Palin is leaning into a common Trumpworld tactic of alleging election fraud after a loss. Palin called ranked-choice voting a “newfangled, cockamamie system.”  She then alleged without evidence that it was “very, very potentially fraught” with fraud. Sarah…

Amazon CEO says the company has no plans to make its corporate employees return to the office

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said most Amazon corporate employees are currently on a hybrid work schedule. Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company isn’t planning to force employees back to the office. He noted that most of Amazon’s corporate workers are already on a hybrid scheme. Jassy said the…

Former Disney chief Bob Iger said the company estimated a ‘substantial portion’ of Twitter accounts were ‘not real’ back in 2016 when it was considering buying the social media platform

Former Disney CEO Bob said he had second thoughts about a Twitter acquisition in 2016. Jerod Harris/Getty Images Disney’s former CEO said the company estimated that many Twitter users were “not real” in 2016. The entertainment giant was considering acquiring the social media platform at the time. Bob Iger’s comments came as Twitter and Elon…

A group of speech therapists have been convicted of sedition for publishing children’s books about sheep warriors battling evil wolves

Hong Kong’s senior superintendent Steve Li holds up a copy of one of the books at the center of the case. DANIEL SUEN/AFP via Getty Images Five speech therapists in Hong Kong have been convicted of sedition for publishing three books. The illustrated children’s books depict sheep warriors defending their homes from evil wolves. A…

Sony’s Jim Ryan says Microsoft’s Call of Duty promise was ‘inadequate on many levels’

Sony PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan has revealed that Microsoft offered to keep Call of Duty available on PlayStation for three years beyond its current Activision deal. “After almost 20 years of Call of Duty on PlayStation, their proposal was inadequate on many levels and failed to take account of the impact on our gamers,” Ryan…