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Patrick Soon-Shiong’s controversial shakeup at the L.A. Times: ‘Bias meter,’ opinion upheaval and a call for growth

Patrick Soon-Shiong had become accustomed to making the news. He was the doctor and medical technology innovator who built a fortune, the striving South African immigrant who bought a piece of the Lakers and the L.A. billionaire who brought the Los Angeles Times back under local control when he purchased it in 2018. But none […]

News Corp’s fossil fuel advertising dressed as news should be illegal

News Corp’s unethical support for the fossil fuel industry is propaganda dressed as news and requires some kind of regulation, writes Dr Victoria Fielding. LAST WEEK, News Corp’s newspapers The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, The Courier Mail and The Adelaide Advertiser caused controversy by publishing front page “exclusives” and “special reports” alleging that more gas […]

As Walmart rolls back DEI policies, here’s how a recent research reveals DEI training perpetuates bias against Brahmins, Muslim victimhood and racism

After Toyota, Ford, John Deere, and Boeing, the world’s largest retailer Walmart has announced its decision to roll back its ‘Diversity, Equality and Inclusivity’ or DEI policies. Walmart announced on the 25th of November that it will no longer consider race and gender to increase diversity when awarding supplier contracts, and it will stop collecting demographic […]

AI Algorithms Used in Healthcare Can Perpetuate Bias

The AI algorithms increasingly used to treat and diagnose patients can have biases and blind spots that could impede healthcare for Black and Latinx patients, according to research co-authored by a Rutgers-Newark data scientist.  Fay Cobb Payton, a Mathematics and Computer Science professor, has researched how AI technology and algorithms often rely on data that […]