FTC investigates media watchdog over Musk’s X boycott claims, document shows
The FTC wants to know if Media Matters worked with other groups that evaluate misinformation and hate speech in news and social media to orchestrate advertiser boycotts of X. Media Matters and X are battling each other in federal courts in Texas and California. X sued the World Federation of Advertisers and a group of major brands in federal court …
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has been found in breach of three regulations at HMP Nottingham. Care Quality Commission will confirm if it will take civil or criminal enforcement action against the trust. The trust will eventually stop running healthcare services at the prisons once a new provider is found. The previous inspection found the trust was in two breaches of …
Justice Department smothers Biden-era police reform deals
The Justice Department wants to dismiss the consent decrees with Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky. The decrees were reached after high-profile police killings of Black Americans, including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville. The move aligns with the Trump administration's pivot away from racial justice and civil rights and toward its preferred crusades.
The U.S. Department of Justice is running a criminal investigation into UnitedHealth over its Medicare Advantage business. It's looking into whether the company manipulated patient records to make people look sicker than they were and collect more money from Medicare. In May, an investigation by The Guardian claimed that UnitedHealth paid bonuses to nursing homes as an incentive not to …
We Tend to Trust Those From a Low-Income Backgrounds Over Wealthy Elites
People tend to trust people who grew up in the middle class more than the rich. The study was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by the American Psychological Association. The research team presented the study participants with a series of experiments that looked at how someone’s social class, past or present, impacted how trustworthy they were …
Trump fired 19 inspectors general across 18 federal agencies in his first week in office. Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee says the potential savings they identified before being fired exceeds what Elon Musk claims he has saved with his Department of Government Efficiency. Musk's promised savings have ticked up slightly to an estimated $170 billion.
For Tech Whistleblowers, There’s Safety in Numbers
Amber Scorah cofounded Psst, a nonprofit that helps people in the tech industry or the government share information of public interest with extra protections. Psst’s main offering is a “digital safe” which users access through an anonymous end-to-end encrypted text box hosted on Psst.org.
Justice Department is moving to free police departments in Louisville and Minneapolis from consent decrees imposed during the Biden administration following Black Lives Matter protests. It's a significant shift in federal oversight of local law enforcement. The decision reflects administration priorities and several key developments are anticipated.
Who Even Is a Criminal Now?
WIRED has a long-running obsession with rogues. WIRED profiles the people who make trouble and save the day. In this edition of WIRED, Matt Burgess brings you the inside story of Nigeria’s Yahoo Boys and the “scam influencer” teaching them how to pull sophisticated digital cons on American victims.