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| Roy Austin |
Facebook has hired Roy Austin, partner at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis law firm, as VP-civil rights, a new position at the social media company.
He has more than 25 years of experience as a civil rights lawyer, beginning his career in the Justice Dept. civil rights division.
Austin rose to the deputy assistant attorney general post in 2010 and shifted to the White House’s domestic policy council as an assistant to the president for the office of urban affairs, justice and opportunity.
He co-authored a report on big data and civil rights, worked with president Obama’s task force on 21st-century policing, developed the police data initiative and was a member of the president’s My Brother’s Keeper Task Force.
“I am excited to join Facebook at this moment when there is a national and global awakening happening around civil rights," Austin said in a Facebook blog. “Technology plays a role in nearly every part of our lives, and it’s important that it be used to overcome the historic discrimination and hate which so many underrepresented groups have faced, rather than to exacerbate it."
Austin will be based in Washington and report to duty on Jan. 19.
Meanwhile, Facebook expressed concern for the safety of its employees following the platform’s decision to suspend president Trump’s account and told them not to wear or carry company-branded items in public.
Trump Media & Technology Group today reported a $58.2M net loss on $4.1M in 2023 revenues, a disclosure that drove its stock price down 22.6 percent to $47.96.
Barry Pollack, an attorney at Wall Street’s Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler, has registered Julian Assange as a client with the Justice Dept. “out of an abundance of caution.”
Paramount Global to slash 800 jobs in what chief executive Bob Bakish calls part of an effort to “return the company to earnings growth"... Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman is exiting at the end of the month due to disagreements with chief executive Gus Wenner over the direction the magazine is taking... The New York Times broke the $1 billion barrier in annual revenue from digital subscriptions in 2023... Press Forward is investing more than $500 million to strengthen local newsrooms.
The majority of news articles are read within the first three days of publication, according to a recent report.
The Los Angeles Times gives pink slips to 115 people or 20 percent of its newsroom staff... TIME is also laying off about 30 employees, which is approximately 15 percent of its editorial staff... The Baltimore Banner, which was launched by Stewart Bainum in 2022 after he failed to buy the Baltimore Sun, added 500 subscribers per day in the three days following Sinclair Broadcast Group's deal to purchase the Sun.
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Jan. 15, 2021, by Joe Honick
That last paragraph really caught my attention....seems I also have a few "fans"(?) who have "offered" comments. But the real question and comment is why those creeps seem to come out of their "bunkers" to celebrate Trump and associates almost all the time? The answers are clear and simple as the creeps.