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The 18 biggest tech scandals of 2018 (FB, TWTR, GOOGL, TSLA, AAPL)
From Facebook's Cambridge Analytica debacle to Google's sexual misconduct investigations, 2018 has been a year rocked by scandal in tech industry. Here are the 18 biggest tech scandals that happened...
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'They threw us under the bus at every opportunity': Facebook fact-checkers...
Facebook has been slammed by current and former fact-checkers for using them as "crisis PR" rather than to genuinely combat misinformation.Two former employees for the fact-checking site Snopes said...
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I don't trust Facebook, but I can't quit it either (FB)
My trust in Facebook has eroded to all-time lows, especially after the company's past year of scandals.Yet, I can't bring myself to quit Facebook, and I don't think it's going to happen anytime...
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2 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists held in prison for a year in Myanmar...
Two Reuters reporters, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, walked free from a prison after spending more than 500 days behind bars, witnesses said.The two journalists were sentenced to seven years in...
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Video shows dramatic moment a Myanmar passenger plane made an emergency...
A passenger plane operated by Myanmar's flagship airline made an emergency landing at Mandalay International Airport on Sunday after its front landing gear malfunctioned.  Myanmar National Airlines...
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Trump asked 'where is that?' when a Rohingya refugee asked him if he was...
On Wednesday, Trump met with victims of religious persecution from countries including China, Turkey, North Korea, Iran, and Myanmar.In a clip that's circulating online, a Rohingya refugee asked Trump...
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What life is like on the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh, where a UN-labeled...
Myanmar and Bangladesh are divided by the Naf River.Below the river, Rakhine State in Myanmar has been a place of conflict for decades. The Rohingya people, who lived there, have not been recognized as...
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Miss Universe's first openly gay contestant is from a country where same sex...
Miss Myanmar contestant Swe Zin Htet made history as the first openly gay contestant to walk down the Miss Universe runway on Sunday.Despite not winning the competition, the Miss Universe organization...
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Myanmar's suppression of the Rohingya, explained in 30 seconds
The Rohingya are a minority Muslim group in Myanmar.More than 740,000 Rohingya refugees have fled the Rakhine State of Myanmar since August 2017, when a military-led ethnic cleansing campaign began,...
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Facebook blames a 'technical issue' for the vulgar translation of Xi...
Facebook on Saturday apologized for mis-translating Chinese President Xi Jinping's name to "Mr. Shithole" in posts on the site translated from Burmese to English. The translation error was first...
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Myanmar has been ordered to protect Rohingya Muslims from genocide, following...
The UN's International Court of Justice ruled Thursday that the Myanmar government "take all measures" to prevent the genocide of Rohingya Muslims, a minority group in the country. The decision is a...
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Dozens of Facebook pages linked to Russian and Iranian propaganda efforts...
Facebook removed dozens of accounts and Pages originating in Russia and Iran, the social media giant announced on Wednesday morning. The accounts and Pages were engaged in "coordinated inauthentic...
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Myanmar has had an internet blackout for a year. Some of its citizens still...
On June 21 2019, Myanmar imposed a total internet blackout on mobile internet in nine cities and townships in the states of Rakhine and Chin.The blackout remains in place for eight of those areas and...
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COVID-19 is hitting Rohingya Muslims in the world's biggest refugee camp, and...
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar reside in Bangladesh, with many living in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar.They live in cramped conditions, where social distancing is...
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Melvyn Pun explains why he left a career at Goldman Sachs to head a...
Summary List PlacementWhen Melvyn Pun left Goldman Sachs in 2012 to head the family-owned investment holding company Yoma Strategic Holdings in Myanmar, it was an interesting time to be doing business...
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268 million people had their internet shut off by government-imposed...
Summary List PlacementGovernment-imposed internet blackouts increased in length by 49% in 2020 compared to 2019, per research by digital security and rights group Top10VPN.According to Top10VPN's...
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Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi detained in early-morning raid
Summary List PlacementMyanmar's top political leaders, including Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Mynt, were "taken" in an early-morning raid, a spokesperson for the ruling party told Reuters on...
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Myanmar's military says it's taking over as world leaders look on in shock
Summary List PlacementMyanmar's military on Monday announced it would be taking over the country for at least a year, citing massive voter fraud as justification for the coup.The announcement was made...
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Scenes from a coup: Images from Myanmar show how the military took control in...
Summary List PlacementSome of the residents of Yangon were doing yoga in the park when the coup happened.Trucks and tanks carrying military personnel rumbled through both the streets of Myanmar's...
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Authorities in Myanmar cut the internet to vast swathes of the country during...
Summary List PlacementAuthorities Myanmar cut internet access across much of the country as its military staged a coup and detained its political leaders on Monday morning.Myanmar's military seized...
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