TECH 6:22 PM PDT 06/29/2020 by Abid Rahman Almost 250 companies have signed up for the #StopHateForProfit campaign that is pushing for the social media giant to tackle hate speech and disinformation on their platforms. American corporate giants Ford, Pepsi and Microsoft are the latest front-line companies to join the …

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday labeled “shocking“ and “disturbing” reports that China’s ruling Communist Party is using forced sterilization, forced abortion, and coercive family planning against minority Muslims. Pompeo highlighted a report on the situation in China’s Xinjiang region by German researcher Adrian Zenz published by …

The FBI said this month that scammers promote false or unproven antibody tests and sell them to people to steal Social Security numbers or health insurance information. Antibody tests are used to determine if someone has been infected with Covid-19 in the past and has since developed antibodies, which protect …

Two other Sonoma County residents have died from complications of the coronavirus, which has led to seven fatalities of the infectious disease since it emerged here in early March, the county’s top public health official said Monday. Dr. Sundari Mase, the county health officer, said the deaths occurred on Sunday …

“Everyone has a clean slate, and they’re just looking at what we’ve done in the past,” said Lewis. “They are looking at the size of the sample they have, to go out and look at us, see the movie and the movements and see what they want to implement in …