Crapo staffer told FBI the senator gave permission for $250K campaign investment into get-rich-quick scheme
Newly released FBI documents say that U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo’s campaign told the FBI that the senator “was aware of and approved” the investment of a quarter-million dollars of his campaign donors’ funds into a risky get-rich-quick scheme “at the time of the transaction” in 2008, in which the money disappeared.
Wildlife Traffickers Are Setting Up Fake Zoos On Facebook To Sell The Scales Of Endangered Pangolins
"The pages are as easy to find as searching the word “pangolin" in Vietnamese."
Pro-Life Clinics Think They’re Getting Coronavirus Bailout Money
"Planned Parenthood, meanwhile, seems to be blocked from relief funds thanks to measures snuck in by Republicans."
YouTube profits from videos promoting unproven Covid-19 treatments
"New report finds company is running ads on videos pushing herbs and potentially unsafe over-the-counter treatments for virus."
It’s still easy to find coronavirus mask ads on Facebook
"Ads for face masks are still appearing on Facebook, Instagram and Google, according to a review of the platforms carried out by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP). This despite pledges by the platforms that they would stamp out ads which seek to profit from the coronavirus pandemic."
Over 300 cases of child exploitation went unnoticed by Facebook – study
"Facebook failed to catch hundreds of cases of child exploitation on its platform over the past six years, a study published on Wednesday found. The site was used as a medium to sexually exploit children in at least 366 cases between January 2013 and December 2019, a report from the not-for-profit investigative group Tech Transparency Project [TTP] analyzing Department of Justice news releases found."
Trump administration upholds ‘one of its gravest attacks on abortion since election’
"Alice Huling, a lawyer for the Campaign for Accountability, a public interest watchdog based in the US, said the rule change which the US Department of Health and Human Services initially introduced in March last year was 'staggering'."
Documents Show Government Funding of Anti-Choice Clinics a ‘Futile Project’
"According to [...] the Campaign for Accountability (CfA), a nonprofit watchdog group, Obria’s 2019 Title X application shows per-patient costs ranging from $292 to $970."
New Documents Reveal Pentagon Anger Over Holdup In Ukraine Aid
"Daniel Stevens, executive director of the Campaign for Accountability, a Washington-based government watchdog group, said the new disclosures indicate the redactions made by the Trump administration in documents it provided to Public Integrity were unfounded."