Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan

The $2 trillion coronavirus bailout bill featured a carve-out for foreign-owned businesses to take billions of dollars from struggling American citizens to line their coffers.

The news was reported with glee on Monday by Israeli Tech and Startup News site CTech. Continue reading “Israeli Companies Urged to ‘Cash In’ On $2 Trillion Coronavirus Bailout”

Fortune

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, misinformation and social-media hoaxes are about to get a lot weirder. For the past couple of years, deepfake technology, which uses machine learning to manipulate videos, has been getting more and more realistic in appearance. Continue reading “What Is a Deepfake? Let This Unsettling Video of Jennifer Lawrence With Steve Buscemi’s Face Show You”

Yahoo News

Patrons were caught on surveillance video streaming into an illegal San Francisco nightclub in early April in breach of tight restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus. Continue reading “People Stream Into Illegal San Francisco Nightclub During Coronavirus Shutdown”

Market Watch – by Shawn Langlois

‘This could be a long, hard road that we have ahead of us until we get to either an effective therapy or a vaccine. It’s hard for me to see a V-shaped recovery under that scenario.’

That’s Neel Kashkari, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, painting a rather gloomy picture in a CBS interview on Sunday morning of what lies ahead for the U.S. economy as the country continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading “America should be ready for 18 months of shutdowns in ‘long, hard road’ ahead, warns the Fed’s Neel Kashkari”