
Some independent economists put it as high as 82%. The BBC were offering a 20% pay rise, while official statistics put Turkey’s inflation rise in 2021 at 36%. The entire staff of BBC’s Istanbul bureau have gone on strike after negotiations concerning below-inflation pay collapsed.A similar case against Google last year failed. She alleges Meta “abused its market dominance” and exploited the personal data of UK users. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp et al, is being sued for billions of pounds in a class action lawsuit brought by Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, a competitions expert.Rogan yet again promoted misinformation about vaccines in an episode featuring discredited doctor Robert Malone.


More than 250 medical professionals have signed an open letter to Spotify, demanding the company takes action against their most popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, for creating “mass-misinformation events”.The scandal also “ highlights the revolving door between Britain’s political and media elite”, says Jim Waterson of the Guardian.

In the early 2021 lockdown, Slack’s leaving do at Downing Street is alleged to have seen staff “dragging a suitcase of booze into No 10”. The Sun’s coverage of the Number 10 lockdown party scandals has been widely criticised after it came to light that James Slack, the paper’s deputy editor and former Communications Director for the Prime Minister, had a party of his own.

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