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Facebook Suspends Cambridge Analytica and SCL After Whistleblower Revelations

2018-03-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica and parent company SCL from its platform following explosive revelations by whistleblower Christopher Wylie about systematic data harvesting affecting 87 million users. The suspension comes only after The Guardian and New York Times publish comprehensive exposés …

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CDC Issues First Opioid Prescribing Guidelines, Twenty Years After OxyContin Launch

2016-03-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

On March 15, 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its first-ever “Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain”—twenty years after Purdue Pharma launched OxyContin with aggressive marketing based on false addiction claims, and nine years after …

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