Johnson and Cummings’ secret meeting with Palantir founder revealed

Non-disclosure of apparent meeting a year before firm won NHS role raises serious questions over transparency

The Guardian
Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm

World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.

The New York Times

#Auspol #Gas #Oil #Coal #ClimateEmergency #APPEA #SecretDeals #CorporateVillains #CorporateVandals #Greenwashing #Scam #FridaysForFuture

“How do calls for transparency sit with APPEA’s own transparency? APPEA used to publish its annual reports online but no longer does. Neither are they searchable on the ASIC database (since 2020). Is APPEA still a ‘public’ entity or has its status changed?”

#Qldpol #MWM #MichaelWestMedia

https://michaelwest.com.au/gas-lobby-appea-calls-for-transparency-while-its-own-financial-reports-vanish-whats-the-scam/

From: @mojo
https://aus.social/@mojo/111111802821984386

Gas lobby APPEA calls for transparency while its own financial reports vanish. What's the scam? - Michael West

There is no noisier, whingier bunch of lobbyists in Australia than APPEA, but what's the scam with their own vanishing financial disclosures?

Michael West

‘Business would be over’: Canada’s news publishers say ban by Google & Facebook would devastate them

& say that if big tech platforms pull Canadian news content from their pages, the move could end smaller news businesses or result in millions in lost revenue

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2023/05/30/business-would-be-over-canadas-news-publishers-say-ban-by-google-and-facebook-would-devastate-them.html

#SocialMedia #journalism #SecretDeals #FairPay #cdnpoli

‘Business would be over’: Canada’s news publishers say ban by Google and Facebook would devastate them

News publishers say that if big tech platforms pull Canadian news content from their pages, the move could end smaller news businesses or result in millions of dollars in lost revenue.

thestar.com

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Unordered list of fun things I learned:"

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