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Archives for Saturday, October 3, 2020

Fake World of Big Tech: Universities Are Paying Instagram Influencers to Promote Colleges They Didn’t Attend

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(John Vibes) Universities in the UK are reportedly paying Instagram influencers to advertise for their schools even if they have never been enrolled there. Earlier this week, model and influencer Ambar Driscoll came under fire after promoting the University of Hull, even though she went to school at the University of Exeter, which is on the other end of the country.

Conspireality: Is It Time For A Serious Conversation?

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(Joe Martino) One thing I’m noticing now more than ever before in my experience as a journalist and researcher, and as a human in general, is that people are hungry for information that is deeper than what they are getting through the mainstream media. It feels as though people are beginning to recognize that there is a degree of corruption involved in our world and that politicians and traditional media outlets have been compromised in the process. How can you weed through the confusion? What media can I trust? What is the truth? These are all big questions many are now having. Further, there is a lack of trust in many professional or societal experts due to a felt sense that they have been compromised as well. In an attempt to get answers to these questions, people have been looking for alternative information or perspectives about many current events in an attempt to make sense of the world.

Glass-Steagall Act

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(Edward Morgan) The Glass-Steagall Act, part of the Banking Act of 1933, was landmark banking legislation that separated Wall Street from Main Street by offering protection to people who entrust their savings to commercial banks. Millions of Americans lost their jobs in the Great Depression, and one in four lost their life savings after more than 4,000 U.S. banks shut down between 1929 and 1933, leaving depositors with nearly $400 million in losses. The Glass-Steagall Act prohibited bankers from using depositors’ money to pursue high-risk investments, but the act was effectively undercut by looser restrictions in the deregulatory environment of the 1980s and 1990s.