Business & Human Rights

  • FDA Gives Approval for Emergency Use of Covid-19 Vaccine

    December 14, 2020

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use with plans to ship 50 million vaccine doses this year, enough to inoculate 25 million people. 

  • Politico: YouTube to Remove Videos Claiming Mass Fraud Changed Election Results

    December 11, 2020

    The Google-owned video-sharing platform YouTube announced that any content that "alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election” will be removed.

  • U.S. and States File Antitrust Action against Facebook

    December 11, 2020

    BBC reports that in one of the most significant legal actions against Facebook, U.S. federal regulators and more than 45 state prosecutors have sued the tech giant on grounds that the social media company has taken illegal actions to stifle competition.

  • Cohen: Win for Free Speech at Cambridge University

    December 11, 2020

    Nick Cohen writes in The Spectator that, by rejecting a University proposal to require "respect" for the viewpoints of others, rather than "toleration," Cambridge Academics have won a victory for free speech.

  • Twitter Expands Coverage on Regulation of Expression

    December 03, 2020

    In a statement, Twitter has announced the expansion of its 2019 ban on speech that dehumanizes others on the basis of religion or caste to include language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race, ethnicity and national origin.

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