Remove Benefit Remove Gambia Remove National
article thumbnail

How foreign workers helped spur Spain’s rapid economic growth

Fast Company Tech

Inside a cavernous production plant in Spain, people from 62 nationalities work side by side to keep a food company humming as millions of legs of ham travel on hooks along conveyor belts. It credits the newcomers with sustaining the aging countrys social security systema challenge common in other European nations.

Spain 85
article thumbnail

Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

Facebook is rejecting a request from The Gambia to help it investigate the genocide in Myanmar, saying the request was “extraordinarily broad” as well as “unduly intrusive or burdensome.” Get those benefits while you can, hype houses! Makena Kelly / The Verge ). Amanda Perelli / Business Insider ).

Video 105
article thumbnail

Facebook’s big QAnon crackdown might have come too late

The Verge

Yesterday I included a link to a story in Time about a request from the Gambian government to help investigate the genocide in Myanmar , where the United Nations has said Facebook contributed to the incitement of violence. Critics say the companies have grown in part because of a range of anticompetitive practices.

Myanmar 139