Sentences with phrase «public scandal of»

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Yet, paradoxically, it is exactly in their public actions and the policies they espouse that we may look for the roots of these selective scandals.

The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

The researcher at the center of the Facebook personal data scandal, Aleksandr Kogan, also briefly had access to public data from Twitter.

Sure, she's dealt with her fair share of public scandals, but despite them, she's only continued to grow and expand upon her success.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's appearances this week at congressional hearings delving into the Cambridge Analytica data scandal mark a crucial moment for the company, its users, and the broader public — and it's important that members of Congress use it wisely.

The Facebook data breach scandal involving Cambridge Analytica has heightened the public's awareness of the potential costs of using so - called free online services.

In an era when Mark Zuckerberg can be called on the carpet by Senate investigators because of possible wrongdoing by Facebook over the Russian hacking scandal — and at a time when researchers are actively examining whether social media is psychologically, maybe even physically addictive — revenge porn as a public policy issue is on the ascent.

Those scandals, in turn, prompted the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002, with its added compliance measures for public or soon - to - be public companies.

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook's public image has been seriously damaged.

Japan's Finance Ministry proposed crafting a cover story with a school operator at the heart of a political scandal to justify a discount in the price of public land sold to the school, a ministry official said on Monday.

While it's rare to see CEOs here take a public stand (witness the silence of Toronto's business leaders when the Rob Ford scandals unfolded), a growing number of American executives are stepping into the public spotlight, taking stands on issues like religious freedom, gay marriage and gun control.

You'd think that after the hue and cry of that scandal, the U.S. automobile industry would have learned from GM's financial, legal, and public relations nightmare wouldn't happen again.

And the Chinese public, traumatized by 30 years of deadly food - safety scandals, is extremely wary of GMOs.

The only hint of a public comment from Rob's family since the scandal came in the form of a nondisclosure agreement sent to ABC News by Kim Kardashian's representatives after the network contacted the family for comment following its «Good Morning America» interview with Chyna.

Urgo believes the shutdown is mostly a temporary, albeit drastic, measure to regain public's trust in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Panama's public prosecutor against organised crime said there was no evidence so far to take action against the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal, following a raid lasting 27 hours on its offices.

Monti was widely credited with tightening Italy's public finances and restoring its international credibility after the scandal - plagued Berlusconi, whom he replaced as the 2011 financial crisis threatened to spin out of control.

When perceived failures of a successor, such as the phone hacking scandal, are very public, they can be very hard for the successor to live down.

Right from its opening sentence («One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,») the book's message resonated with a public outraged by a rash of corporate scandals and feeling deceived by the failure of American forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

«I started Facebook, and at the end of the day I'm responsible for what happens on our platform» Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted after days of the public and government officials waiting for him to speak up about the Cambridge Analytica scandal since it broke Friday.

The Stormy Daniels scandal feels like the kind of salacious yet pointless story that distracts the public from the truly important issues of the Trump era.

Regardless of rising pressure around what is now a major public scandal — including the FTC opening an investigation — Zuckerberg has declined the committee's summons.

Wells Fargo & Co.'s attempt to force aggrieved customers into closed - door arbitration over its fake - accounts scandal is drawing a legislative backlash in its home state of California and risks subjecting the bank to another round as a public punching bag.

«In today's climate of corporate scandal and public cynicism, Jay Conrad Levinson and Shel Horowitz provide a deep breath of fresh air.

Facebook has named a new head of U.S. public policy as the company deals with ongoing fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and increasing pressure over privacy around the world.

Tokyo Japan's finance ministry said on Friday it would dock the pay of its top finance bureaucrat for sexual harassment and apologized for betraying public trust in a scandal that has further damaged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ratings.

What's curious about this response is that Zuckerberg elides to mention how Facebook's own staff have worked with the program he's suggesting his company «found now» — as if it had only discovered the existence of the Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre, whose researchers have in fact been working with Facebook data since at least 2007, since the Cambridge Analytica story snowballed into a major public scandal last month.

In the face of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, reaction from the public has been swift, emotional and intense.

Below is a quick timeline of how Facebook has reacted since mid March — when the story morphed into a major public scandal...

Perhaps fearing a public scandal, from demanding $ 26m to end the identical components of the two bets, the valuation models of the banks magically changed.

He joins a growing list of male investors and tech executives who recently lost their jobs or faced public shaming over sexual harassment scandals as more women come forward to report incidents — a trend experts say is reshaping how Silicon Valley deals with allegations of inappropriate behavior.

Since news of the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, Facebook has been running damage control: public apologies, a hasty ad campaign, and reportedly delaying the launch of its voice assistant - enabled home speaker.

As with the ongoing «fake news» scandal in the political world (where the public largely remains awestruck at the discord), only a handful of people in the world perhaps know bitcoin's inner - workings enough to really understand the issue or evaluate proposed code.

Coming off a year wracked with public scandal, Khosrowshahi is under a great deal of pressure to turn the company around in 2018.

As Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, his focus on uncovering Tory scandals sometimes makes him appear on the verge of paranoia, but he is relentless and hardworking.

«If you're a billionaire and you don't like the coverage of you, and you don't particularly want to embroil yourself any further in a public scandal, it's a pretty smart, rational thing to fund other legal cases.»

Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber's newly appointed CEO, will inherit a company that has been wracked with public scandal, infighting among its board members, an investigation into workplace harassment and a slew of lawsuits.

In any case, Giuliani's admission is more evidence that as Robert Mueller's team closes in on the Oval Office, Trump has decided to double down on litigating the president's scandals in the court of public opinion.

A wave of recent scandals at the state - run Chinese Red Cross, which suggested a young staffer had bought luxuries such as a villa and lamborghini with donations, sparked public interest in greater regulation of the non-profit sector.

Facebook board member Reed Hastings offered his first public comments on the scandal that has gripped Facebook over the last month — and cast the concerns about Facebook's algorithms and data as part of how any young company matures over time.

In the middle of its worst recession in 25 years, BBC also notes that Brazil is also suffering from a record public sector deficit, inflation of over 10 %, and a fragile investor mindset amidst the scandal surrounding Petrobras, the country's state - owned oil giant.

According to British public filings, Emerdata was incorporated in August 2017 and Rebekah Mercer and her sister were appointed to its board on March 20 of this year, days after news broke of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Can shareholders of Bank of America, Citigroup, or JPMorgan learn anything about their potential exposure to the burgeoning LIBOR - fixing scandal from the banks» most recent public disclosures?

In the midst of an already scandal - ridden year, the messy, public lawsuit exposed the company's internal messages, questionable competitive practices and resulted in the termination of at least one top executive.

What followed would trigger headlines around the world and public uproar that continues to roil Europe, a swirling mess of corruption scandals, a disgraced bank, links to dirty tricks group Cambridge Analytica, passport sales, sanctions busting and death threats.

However, in light of recent high - profile food scandals — such as exploding watermelons and melamine - tainted infant formula — there is understandably a lot of public opposition and mistrust towards «freaky» GM foods and China's agri - chem / agricultural technology sectors in general.

As the world watched Facebook hauled before the court of public opinion over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the sense of...

The ride - hail company has recently seen a parade of executives leave the company — either after being fired or resigning — and has suffered through a series of public scandals, the most recent of which involved an executive obtaining the medical records of a rape victim in India.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg today (April 4) outlined the company's latest moves to address public fears over the extent of data scraping in a rare live Q&A with the media; updates that come as its privacy scandal rumbles on.

Scripture does do something to us in worship, which is why it is a scandal that Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and other traditions have more public reading of Scripture in their services than we Bible - oriented evangelical Protestants.