Precipitously, tech and telecom have been in trouble all day. Verizon cut its rating on the stock, verizon was down, the others followed in sympathy but it is a tough day all around. We are on the story, why are markets moving . We will take you to the nice he nyse in a second. The next 14 days it will be the center of the political universe as the president ial candidates descend on n new york to make their case. Hillary clininton in an empire state of mind, a l little t of trouble to use their metro card toto enter the subway, trying t be like the regular joes, turn the card o over and slide it through, she got it. She also blasts Bernie Sanders for thinking new yorkers still use tokens. They both had a little trtroubl with the subway but o Ohio Governor john kasich havining n trouble in the bronx, the italian cuisine on arthur avenue. On an event in brooklyn this evening, ted cruz got out of the bronx yesterday, scheduled to visit brooklyn in the next hour. Earlier hehe held a rally
gaithers in florida. july 31st. kentucky won two years in a row for those that you see on your screen. steve: congratulations, thank you, carley. ainsley: thank you carley shimkus we appreciate that if is 18 minutes after the hour and coming up. telecom trouble major companies like tats and verizon see their stocks plunging after concerns over lead cables. steve: lead cables. will. ainsley: spelled either way in this case worried about the lead. marc siegel on the health dangers for the workers impacted. brian: plus, dash, dash. reports show dr. fauci is being guarded by u.s. marshals on the taxpayer s dime which cost more than that dime. thanks carley.
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A new report on the human-rights policies of 26 tech and telecom firms around the world delivers a harsh verdict: From Alibaba to Vodafone, they all get an F.
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The 2020 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index, as previewed in advance of its Wednesday posting, blames this collective failure to get “even close to earning a passing grade” on widespread opacity among these firms in how they analyze, promote, and demote the speech of their customers for marketing, advertising, and content-moderation purposes.
That focus on the uses and abuses of algorithms was the major new addition to this corporate scorecard from Ranking Digital Rights (RDR), a project founded by longtime digital-human-rights advocate Rebecca MacKinnon and housed at the nonprofit New America in Washington. Founded with a Knight News Challenge grant and since underwritten by foundation grants and State-Department funding, RDR has graded the po