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Thanks to a class action settlement, some users can get up to $25 from Zoom | Boing Boing
Videoconferencing service Zoom is faced with an $85 million lawsuit over privacy and security issues like third-party data sharing and Zoombombing. Zoom denies wrongdoing but agreed to pay the hefty settlement.
Subscribers would be eligible for $25 or 15% of their subscription cost— whichever is larger. If you were not a paid subscriber but used the service, you are entitled to $15. To file a claim, visit www.zoommeetingsclassaction.com, fill out a form, and provide proof that you used Zoom between March 30, 2016, and July 30, 2021.
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CNN suspends Chris Cuomo after documents show he researched brother Andrew's victims | Boing Boing -
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo often used his cable TV perch to help his brother, then the governor of New York, look good during the Covid pandemic. But he was also using the cable network’s resources to research the women that Andrew Cuomo harassed while in office, according to an expose that saw him finally yanked from the air last night.
“The New York Attorney General’s office released transcripts and exhibits Monday that shed new light on Chris Cuomo’s involvement in his brother’s defense,” a CNN spokesperson said Tuesday evening. “The documents, which we were not privy to before their public release, raise serious questions.”
“When Chris admitted to us that he had offered advice to his brother’s staff, he broke our rules and we acknowledged that publicly,” the spokesperson continued. “But we also appreciated the unique position he was in and understood his need to put family first and job second.”
“However, these documents point to a greater level of involvement in his brother’s efforts than we previously knew,” the spokesperson added. “As a result, we have suspended Chris indefinitely, pending further evaluation.”
When you read journalists and media folks saying things like “I would have helped my brother too, of course”, consider what they’re admitting to: that they’re prepared to use their positions in the media to discredit victims of sexual assault if the accused is behind their fraternal veil. If nothing else, it suggests the extent of such “understandable” ethical lapses and unethical ventures.
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Anti-vaccine TV preacher dies of Covid | Boing Boing -
Marcus Lamb, a conservative TV preacher whose network offered a constant stream of Covid misinformation to its viewers, died earlier this week of Covid.
Jonathan Lamb described his father’s Covid infection as “a spiritual attack from the enemy” to “take down” Marcus Lamb. The network has dedicated hours of broadcasts to anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination activists and groups. In July 2020, the Lamb family devoted an hour of their broadcast to “censorship” around the Covid pandemic, featuring the misinformation group America’s Frontline Doctors.
Lamb was lately in the news when Inside Edition ran an expose on his lavish lifestyle and a jet acquired while receiving nearly $4m in pandemic loans from the U.S. government. Little-mentioned in the coverage is that Lamb was a “prosperity theologian”. Every message and every moment was built from the ground up to part people from their money. The way his TV network glommed onto Covid misinfo is a reminder of how apocalyptically engaged conservative audiences are with it. It’s like a leaking gasoline pipeline: how much can they bottle before it blows?
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