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Big Oil is crushing it as oil prices boom

CNN By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Profits soared at the nation’s two largest oil companies, as ExxonMobil and Chevron both benefited from the recent run-up in oil prices. ExxonMobil, America’s largest oil company, posted net income of $6.8 billion, swinging to a profit after a $680 million loss a year ago. Oil prices got crushed

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Partisanship, employee dissent and ‘dead bodies’: Inside Facebook’s struggle to combat misinformation and hate speech in India

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business In early 2019, a team of Facebook’s researchers spent two weeks interviewing 30 users across two Indian cities, Jaipur and Hyderabad. The goal: to learn about their experiences with misinformation and fact-checking on its platforms. The fact-finding mission, which was described by one of the researchers in an internal document

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Big Oil is crushing it as oil prices boom

CNN By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Profits soared at the nation’s two largest oil companies, as ExxonMobil and Chevron both benefited from the recent run-up in oil prices. ExxonMobil, America’s largest oil company, posted net income of $6.8 billion, swinging to a profit after a $680 million loss a year ago. Oil prices got crushed

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Woman who stormed US Capitol was ‘played by Laura Ingraham’ to downplay Jan. 6 attack in Fox News interview, lawyer says

By Marshall Cohen A January 6 rioter who downplayed the insurrection in a Fox News interview one day after she was sentenced to probation for storming the Capitol was “played by Laura Ingraham” and manipulated into whitewashing the attack, her lawyer said Thursday. Anna Morgan-Lloyd received national attention in June for becoming the first Capitol

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Amazon and Apple warn of supply chain issues

CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Clare Duffy and Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Even Amazon and Apple are grappling with the global supply chain crunch. Both companies reported revenue results on Thursday that fell short of Wall Street analysts’ expectations and warned that supply chain issues could weigh on business in the December quarter. Amazon missed Wall Street

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