A recent article from the Sacramento Bee claims that Elon Musk’s ventilator scheme, which the Bee mocks as a “move fast and fake things” plan, is a ‘fiasco’ that shows that California Governor Gavin Newsom’s work to fight the Chinese virus needs serious oversight. Although Newsom applauded Musk’s plan to deliver ventilators in California, no hospitals have yet received machines.
British police are calling for expanded powers to enforce the coronavirus lockdown rules, including the authority to forcefully enter private residences suspected of hosting forbidden gatherings.
Standard Chartered is reportedly the first major global bank to instruct employees not to use the Zoom video conferencing app or Google Hangouts during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic due to cybersecurity concerns.
An analysis of Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this week revealed that some students are safer on their college campus than they would be at home. Many college students have returned home in response to the ongoing Chinese virus pandemic.
The Chinese virus may keep some American colleges and universities closed until 2021. Institutions such as Boston University have already told students that campus may remain closed through the upcoming fall semester.
A former Northwestern University professor charged with murdering his boyfriend in 2017 attempted to use his academic credentials to convince a judge to release him from jail over the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
A husband and wife from Victoria, Australia, were reportedly been fined over $3,000 Australian dollars ($1,925 USD) for “non-essential travel” after posting vacation photos to Facebook. The pictures are from a vacation taken last June.
Amazon fired at least two programmers last week after they aired public criticisms of workplace conditions at the company’s warehouses. Warehouse employees have accused Amazon of failing to take simple precautions to mitigate the spread of the Chinese virus around their facilities.
Tech giants Apple and Google, which together have near total control of the smartphone market, promise that only public health authorities will be able to access the companies’ new contact-tracing technology and governments will not be allowed to force people to use the technology.
As the Chinese virus pandemic has swept across the world, there’s been a familiar panic about “misinformation” on social media. Yet certain types of misinformation — in particular the types that could damage President Donald Trump and Republicans — seem immune to crackdowns by the Masters of the Universe.
Brendan Carr, a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, addressed the aftermath of the FCC’s decision to end net neutrality decision during an appearance on Breitbart News Sunday. Carr claimed that internet speeds have increased by 70 percent since the net neutrality decision.
American colleges and universities continue to spend millions on “diversity” initiatives even as they prepare to demand billions in bailout cash from the federal government in response to the Chinese virus pandemic.
Several Amazon employees working in warehouses around the country spoke with Wired this week about the dangers of their workplace during the Chinese virus pandemic. Some of the employees allege that Amazon has failed to take simple precautions that could mitigate the spread of the virus.
Google announced on Sunday that it will be donating $1 million to help San Francisco Bay Area families affected by the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai will also donate another $1 million. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced he would devote $1 billion of his personal fortune to fight the Chinese virus around the world.
The Church of England has moved millions of pounds worth of valuables to the Tower of London in order to protect them should mass looting in London occur during the coronavirus lockdown.
The PSNI has launched a website for people to inform on their fellow citizens who, they believe, have broken the lockdown.
Student faith organizations at Harvard University will be celebrating Easter Sunday and Passover on video conferences and live-streams this year as a result of the ongoing Chinese virus pandemic.
Abilene Christian University’s choir went viral this week when it posted a rendition of “The Lord Bless You and Keep You.” The video, which stitched together virtual performances from 500 vocalists, was the choir’s way of celebrating this year’s Easter holiday during the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
A document from the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm has revealed that Wuhan coronavirus patients over 80 and those over 60 with multiple organ failure will not be given priority for intensive care.
In a recent article, the Wall Street Journal outlines how China has begun spreading viral messages in an attempt to shape the narrative of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The communist country’s state-run media outlets have been allowed by Twitter and Facebook to flood their platforms with posts disparaging American efforts to stop the Chinese virus pandemic, as well as posting misinformation about the Wuhan coronavirus itself.
Mass layoffs at Silicon Valley tech firms such as Yelp and Eventbrite are beginning to show how the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic is affecting Silicon Valley.
It will come as no surprise to Breitbart News readers that Facebook’s vaunted fact-checking system does not stop, or even appropriately label, fake, misleading claims from the left-wing media about President Donald Trump.
Facebook’s nine official fact-checking partners, including such allegedly prestigious outlets as the Associated Press and Reuters, collectively failed to conduct a single fact check on an erroneous post from the Huffington Post, which repeated the misleading claim that President Donald Trump has a “stake” in a hydroxychloroquine drugmaker. As explained by Breitbart News economy editor John Carney, Trump’s family trust has a small investment in a mutual fund that owns shares of drugmaker Sanofi. How small of an investment? $1,485 at the maximum, but possibly as low as $99.10.
Nineteen National Health Service (NHS) workers in the United Kingdom have died as a result of coronavirus amidst reports that frontline medical staff lack sufficient supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) to keep them from contracting the Chinese virus.
Some Americans have been exploiting a loophole within the Instacart grocery delivery service app that allows them to lure delivery people in with promises of a large tip only to then cancel the tip shortly after their order has been delivered. One delivery person told reporters that a $55 tip was changed to $0 shortly after she delivered a large grocery order.
Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. announced this week that the university is bringing criminal trespassing charges against two journalists that traveled to campus to report on its decision to remain open during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Falwell told the press that he made the decision to bring charges against the journalists over concerns that they could have spread the Chinese virus to students.
Apple and Google, who together control over 99 percent of the global smartphone operating system market, are joining forces to track contact between carriers of the Chinese virus and other individuals, using smartphone location data.
E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly begun construction a lab to test its workers for the Wuhan coronavirus in the latest effort by Jeff Bezos to ease his workers’ fears about the Chinese virus pandemic.
China wants to ban the popular online video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, due to it becoming a hub for dissidents to criticize Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and authorities in Hong Kong.
The Obama-linked nonprofit “Free Press,” which seeks to “change the media to transform democracy to realize a just society” has petitioned the FCC to pressure broadcasters into either not broadcasting President Trump’s public comments about the Chinese virus, or “fact checking” everything Trump says.
Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu slammed Chinese disinformation efforts to mislead the global public on the coronavirus pandemic.
A recent report from AP News investigates how the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic has forced Silicon Valley’s most popular companies, including Airbnb, to face a number of harsh truths.
Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates stated in a recent interview that he thinks schools in the United States will be able to reopen in the fall but that the U.S. economy won’t magically return to how it was before the coronavirus pandemic.
Officials at Clemson University are cracking down on social gatherings after a group of nearly 100 students held an off-campus gathering over the weekend. Universities and colleges around the countries have been urging students to limit social gatherings to mitigate the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
Video conferencing app Zoom has reportedly formed a new security advisory council and implemented new features to prevent “Zoom bombing.”
Virginia Commonwealth University announced this week that it will not refund students for various services that they can no longer access during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Students around the country have demanded refunds for on-campus services that they can no longer access such as fitness centers and libraries.
Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet has used cellphone location data to identify 1,500 new Chinese virus patients, according to reports in Israeli media.
Students at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, were surprised when they learned last week that the college would not offer pro-rated housing refunds to students that have left campus due to the ongoing Wuhan coronavi
Elon Musk’s Tesla will reportedly be furloughing non-essential workers and cutting employee salaries. Cuts will reportedly remain in place through the second quarter.
Video conferencing app Zoom has been sued by shareholders for overstating its security abilities and failing to disclose many vulnerabilities that have now been discovered by security researchers.
