News Round-Up
5 May 2024
by Will Jones
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5 May 2024
No Phones in Lavatories
5 May 2024
by Joanna Gray
Football Focus is in peril due to plunging viewing figures ahead of its 50th anniversary with the show struggling to recover since Dan Walker was replaced by Alex Scott. Go woke, go broke?
The latest Call of Duty video game will include an AI monitoring tool that will spy on players' conversations to identify foul language, 'hate speech', racism and 'misgendering', it has been revealed.
Anheuser-Busch's attempt to make Bud Light more 'cool' by partnering with Dylan Mulvaney has resulted in a 10.5% drop in revenues for the first quarter of 2023. You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
In the latest humiliation for the Prince and Princess of Woke, Spotify has pulled the plug on Meghan and Harry's Archetypes podcast. No wonder, says Alexander Larman, it was dull, repetitive and ridiculously short.
A video shows Boston Red Sox fans avoiding Bud Light at all costs during a packed Major League Baseball game as the backlash to the Dylan Mulvaney advertisement continues.
'Go woke, go broke.' The opposite may also apply. Nintendo, the Japanese maker of Super Mario Bros. Movie, resisted pressure to use diversity casting, and has hauled in $377 million globally, setting box office records.
Nicola Sturgeon has denied the SNP is in crisis as the party was forced to admit that more than 40% of its members have quit and her self-ID gender reforms were blamed for a recent mass exodus.
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank may be a very literal example of the 'Get woke, go broke' phenomenon, as reports suggest the bank was more focused on displaying its woke credentials than risk management.
Spotify has suffered $230 million in losses and has laid off 600 employees in one month. Paying Meghan and Harry $18 million for a rubbish podcast probably didn't help. Another classic example of ‘Get woke, go broke’?
Why did PayPal double down on its political censorship policy last week, threatening to fine people $2,500 for wrongthink, only to then retreat again? And will this U-turn be enough to stop a mass exodus of its customers?
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