Companies lie

[rcjordan]

Exxon's using the tobacco playbook

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/aug/23/harvard-scientists-took-exxons-challenge-found-it-using-the-tobacco-playbook

[rcjordan]

AccuWeather issues statement on claims it was collecting and sharing location data against users' will

https://www.fastcompany.com/40457621/accuweather-issues-statement-on-claims-it-was-collecting-and-sharing-location-data-against-users-will

[rcjordan]

Corporations Make Big Climate Promises Only To Retreat After A Few Years, Study Finds

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/corporate-sustainability-climate-change_us_5a1c7002e4b0e9bc3368d93e

[Travoli]

>Companies lie

I liked this one from Reddit

[rcjordan]

More 'fur free' retailers found selling rabbit and fox fur, Sky News finds

https://news.sky.com/story/more-retailers-selling-real-fur-labelled-as-fake-sky-news-investigation-finds-11177979

[rcjordan]

100 percent of donations go to the Michigan Humane Society

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/defenders/michigan-attorney-general-sues-company-over-deceptive-clothing-bins-throughout-state

[rcjordan]

Washington state: Comcast was "even more deceptive" than we thought

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/washington-state-comcast-was-even-more-deceptive-than-we-thought/

[rcjordan]

Shortly after publication, Google reviews of Hill Crest were scrubbed from search results for the facility. Currently, only one review — written this month — appears.

A spokesperson for Google declined to comment directly but said that reviews may be removed from listings if they violate Google review policies.

How a Giant Psychiatric Hospital Company Tried To Spin Us — And Silence Its Staff

https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosalindadams/how-a-giant-psychiatric-hospital-company-tried-to-spin-us

[rcjordan]

Verizon's Proposed Settlement in New York Covers Up One of the Largest, Nationwide, Accounting Scandals in American History.

https://medium.com/@kushnickbruce/verizons-proposed-settlement-in-new-york-covers-up-one-of-the-largest-nationwide-accounting-5b0c1e8e1aa6

[rcjordan]

Biggest Voting Machine Maker Admits -- Ooops -- That It Installed Remote Access Software After First Denying It

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180717/23350940257/biggest-voting-machine-maker-admits-ooops-that-it-installed-remote-access-software-after-first-denying-it.shtml

[littleman]

All these things really need a real time paper trail that have a viewing window so that the voter could see his/her vote was tallied the right way.  Anything short of that is just wishful thinking.

[rcjordan]

Wells Fargo's reform plan fails to satisfy Federal Reserve

https://nypost.com/2018/12/06/fed-rejects-wells-fargos-reform-plan-after-string-of-scandals/

[rcjordan]

California commission finds PG&E falsified records for years - CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/15/us/pge-falsifying-records/index.html

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J&J knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer/

[Mackin USA]

https://biznology.com/2014/09/google-lying-liar-lies/

[rcjordan]

^{Bigger than the Dotcom Morgue.}

Charter-Spectrum reaches $174.2 million settlement in New York AG's speed fraud lawsuit - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/18/18146210/charter-spectrum-174-million-settlement-new-york-state-attorney-general-internet-speeds