Category: Business

On November 11, Lina Attalah, founder and editor-in-chief of the independent Egyptian news outlet Mada Masr, will face trial for the second time in just two weeks. This time, she faces charges of spreading false news, an accusation that has become one of the Egyptian government’s most frequently used tools for prosecuting journalists.  The trial […]

NEW YORK — A foundational principle of classical business theory asserts that commercial enterprise should remain non-discriminatory, neutral, and apolitical. Under traditional market economics, successful corporations operate flexibly across party lines, nationalities, creeds, and geographic boundaries. By maintaining a generalized disposition aimed at broad customer acquisition, global brands prioritize market scale and operational neutrality. Smaller […]

NEW YORK — U.S. financial markets concluded a turbulent October 2026 as tech stocks underwent an aggressive sell-off, erasing an estimated $2 trillion in market capitalization from major indices led by the Nasdaq-100. The sharp retreat was fueled by growing investor skepticism over massive capital expenditure commitments toward artificial intelligence infrastructure, disappointing quarterly earnings, and […]

DUBLIN — The Coca-Cola Company has appointed Lidia Ponce de Leon as its new Country Manager for Ireland, where she will oversee local operations, portfolio growth, and marketing strategies across the region. Ponce de Leon succeeds Amruta Vaidya, who has stepped into a new executive role as General Manager of Coca-Cola Romania. Strategic Growth and […]

In courts across the country, publishers and creators are suing large AI companies for training generative AI models on copyrighted works. It’s easy to see these cases as a David-and-Goliath showdown between authors and publishers fighting for a cut of Big Tech company profits. But this fight is actually much larger. It affects billions of people […]

Developers of virtual private network (VPN) apps are reporting that their products are again being pulled from Apple’s App Store in Russia. This is an unacceptable crackdown on a vital tool to protect privacy and speech online. Why? VPNs give people a way to control their own online activities. When you visit a website through […]

In today’s digital world, the internet is an essential resource for young people to access information, explore community, and find themselves. But we know that this often comes alongside fears of experiencing online harms like doxxing, grooming, or bullying. Trying to protect your family from everything all the time is impractical and exhausting, but some […]

A federal appeals court should curb the government’s abuse of grand jury subpoenas to unmask social media users who criticize lawless immigration enforcement. That is the message from the ACLU, EFF, and other civil liberties and trade groups who filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a sealed case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]

In the most recent update to Apple’s devices, iOS 27.2, the company has introduced a new setting to “Exclude Apps” from Siri AI, fulfilling one of our asks from our Encrypt It Already campaign earlier this year. One of our main concerns with new AI features on devices is how those features interact with end-to-end […]

When we give our private information to the government to pay taxes, apply for a job, or vote, we should be able to trust that our data won’t later be used against us. But in a betrayal of that trust, the federal government has been pooling the information it has about us on an unprecedented […]