Last month, an internal Amazon memo showed that an Amazon warehouse in Minnesota had more than four times the rate of new coronavirus infections in surrounding communities, according to media reports. In recent weeks, Amazon executives and spokespeople have said that its U.S. warehouses are performing no worse than neighboring communities, and sometimes even better. …

Facebook to the left, others to the right The United States social media is taking action by “blanket-blocking” inappropriate comments made by a president. The death of Freud, an African-American, had intensified racial tensions in the United States and led to social unrest. Calming the situation and healing the social divide is the most urgent …

Facebook has had to make a concession in the face of a growing advertiser boycott. On July 1, Facebook announced that it was agreeing to a third-party audit of how it controls hate speech in an effort to appease advertisers. In the middle of the month, six major nonprofits launched the “Stop Hate for Profit” …