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Tech giant Apple previously told the SEC that it does not attempt to silence employees in relation to workplace harassment or discrimination, but a whistleblower’s nondisclosure agreement is bringing new scrutiny to this claim.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reportedly sold nearly $5 billion in Tesla stock, according to recent financial filings.

A former Facebook employee reportedly told U.S. authorities recently that the social media giant’s efforts to remove child abuse material have been “inadequate” and “under-resourced.”

The National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank advocating free market policies, sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday after it approved the Nasdaq’s controversial “diversity” rule.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged three former Netflix software engineers with running an insider trading ring that generated $3 million in profits.

Friday on CNN’s “New Day, Southeastern Conference Commissioner (SEC) Greg Sankey issued a plea to fans to speak with medical professionals about getting vaccinated rather than “relying” on what they read on the internet or heard from somebody else.

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby accused ESPN of encouraging other conferences to pick apart the league so Texas and Oklahoma can move to the Southeastern Conference more quickly and without paying a massive buyout.

The Big Tech Masters of the Universe have come together to urge the SEC to require public companies to regularly disclose climate-related issues to shareholders. The letter was signed by Google’s parent company Alphabet, Amazon, Autodesk, eBay, Facebook, Intel, and Salesforce.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated on Sunday that the company will resume accepting Bitcoin as payment for its electric cars once it confirms that there is a “reasonable” level of clean energy used by miners.

The SEC has reportedly told Tesla that the company violated a court-ordered policy to oversee tweets by CEO Elon Musk. According to a court decision, Musk’s tweets about Tesla were supposed to be approved by a company lawyer, which Musk critics labeled his “Twitter Sitter.”

Elon Musk has given himself a new title at his electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla — Technoking. A company filing with the SEC announces Musk’s new title, as well as CFO Zach Kirkhorn being appointed “Master of Coin.”

Stock trading app Robinhood has chosen Nasdaq as the exchange for its IPO this year, despite being embroiled in controversy over its treatment of its customers during the Gamestop trading frenzy and previous problems including trading outages.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission indicated Tuesday that he would likely support new rules to force corporations to disclose their political spending activities, disclosure workforce diversity, and tighten disclosures around climate change, policies that would make businesses more susceptible to political pressure from the left.

A recent report from the New York Times states that the stock trading platform Robinhood is facing almost 50 lawsuits directly related to the recent GameStop trading frenzy.

Her enormous speaking fees from Citadel raise questions about conflicts of interest.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who has long billed herself as an enemy of Wall Street, is urging the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to review the recent surge in stock for video game retail company GameStop that was spurred by an online Reddit community.

The SEC has charged popular stock trading app Robinhood with deceiving customers about how the company makes money and failing to deliver the best execution of trades.

Vanderbilt University interim head coach Todd Fitch has thrown in the towel and canceled the coming game against Georgia.

Despite Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller’s stirring halftime speech and 30-yard kick Saturday, several of her fellow football players may opt out of their game against Georgia this weekend.

Sarah Fuller is now in the running for the Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award, according to reports.

With rumors of a publicity stunt by Vanderbilt University starring soccer player-turned-football kicker Sarah Fuller still swirling, the SEC named Fuller Special Teams Player of the Week.

Nov. 10 (UPI) — The Southeastern Conference on Tuesday postponed this weekend’s Alabama-LSU and Tennessee-Texas A&M games because of multiple COVID-19 cases within the Tigers and Aggies football programs.

Thursday on ESPN’s “First Take,” co-host Max Kellerman downplayed the intellectual capabilities of SEC college football fans while discussing the potential political implications of a canceled season.

At least half of college football seems determined to play this fall. However, the best team on this year’s college gridiron might only hoist a participation trophy at the end of the year.

The commissioners of college football’s Power 5 conferences held a meeting on Sunday to determine whether there would in fact be, a 2020 college football season.

The NCAA on Friday expanded its policy banning states with prominent Confederate symbols from hosting its championship events, one day after the Southeastern Conference made a similar declaration aimed at the Mississippi state flag.

The chief of America’s premier college football conference just sent a stern message to the State of Mississippi: Get the confederate flag out of your state flag, or risk not hosting another SEC Championship game again.

The University of Florida has decided to put an end to its “Gator Bait” chant, due to what the school claims is the “historic racist imagery associated with the phrase.”

At least five members of the University of Alabama football team have tested positive for the coronavirus as training resumes.

Whistleblowers at Facebook have filed a complaint with the SEC alleging that the company was aware of illegal activity on its platform, yet failed to notify the proper authorities, according to a report in the Washington Post.

For those anxiously anticipating the beginning of college football, you got good news today. The Southeastern Conference approved voluntary on-campus workouts for student-athletes beginning on June 8th.

The ACC, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, and Pac-12, all canceled their conference tournaments on Thursday.

A former Tesla employee has filed a formal whistleblower complaint with the SEC alleging that Tesla failed to disclose that authorities had discovered an alleged drug trafficking scheme involving an employee at the firm’s “Gigafactory” plant in Nevada. Among the other claims in the complaint, the whistleblower also describes the theft of more than $37 million worth of copper from Elon Musk’s Nevada facility.

ESPN and the SEC Network took swift action after analyst Barry Booker after he made an off-the-cuff remark about watching “scantily clad girls” on the NCAA gymnastics mats.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk how he should fix the social media platform, Musk reportedly told Dorsey that “bots and troll armies” were the issue to focus on.

Warren wants a federal probe into whether President Trump provided advance notice of the strike to people who then traded stocks.