.@NYTIMES reported on internal documents appearing to show how the company grappled with whether to keep or get rid of the "like" and "share" buttons. businessinsider.com/facebook-paper…
.@AP reported on Facebook documents appearing to show how its lack of language-specific moderation stops it from properly addressing moderation issues, including terrorism and hate speech. businessinsider.com/facebook-paper…
.@NBCnews reported on internal employee debates and apparent disillusionment over whether the company has done enough to counter hate speech and misinformation. businessinsider.com/facebook-paper…
Today, wacky C-suite titles are all the rage. Chief amazement officers, chief heart officers, and chief empathy officers are popping up across companies. businessinsider.com/companies-inve…
Your company might operate more compassionately because it hired a chief heart officer, but at the end of the day it's still a business, and that person can still fire you, Limsky writes. businessinsider.com/companies-inve…
Remote work sparked a surge in whistleblower complaints. There's more free time, less risk, and more support to call out wrongdoing when you work from home.
@BrittaLokting explains why so many remote workers are deciding to squeal on their companies. ⬇️
In 2017, Simon Edelman blew the whistle on his former employer, the US Department of Energy, as he leaked photographs to the news site @inthesetimesmag of a meeting between the Energy Secretary Rick Perry and the CEO of one of the largest coal companies.
Data from the Yellowstone Wolf Project hints that it's just the side effect of a protozoan inhabiting our brains in a failed attempt to make more protozoa, Adam Rogers (@jetjocko) writes. ⬇️ businessinsider.com/parasite-cat-f…
Curious about what motivates a wolf to leave its pack, Kira Cassidy, a field biologist with the Yellowstone Wolf Project, and her team hypothesized that a parasitic infection was egging them along. Specifically, a microorganism called Toxoplasma gondii. businessinsider.com/parasite-cat-f…
Toxo, as it's colloquially known, reproduces in cat species but leaps to other hosts like rats, hyena, people, and wolves. Once it takes up residence in a new animal, it’s linked to weird behavior — much of it spurred by an elevated appetite for risk. businessinsider.com/parasite-cat-f…