The media authority of Berlin-Brandenburg (MABB) has pressed charges against RT DE, arguing it is a broadcaster based in Berlin and therefore subject to their authority. This happened shortly after European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) chair Tobias Schmid called RT DE a “nuisance” that needs to be …
Read More »Former Boeing test pilot charged for ‘deceiving regulators’ about 737 MAX safety, to ‘save money’ & not become fall guy
Mark Forkner, 49, a chief technical pilot for the aerospace giant between 2014 and 2018, was charged on Thursday by a federal grand jury, according to the Department of Justice, which claimed he “deceived” the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Aircraft Evaluation Group about a particular system on the MAX, later …
Read More »‘Don’t interfere in our elections,’ Russian regulators tell US tech giants Apple & Google, in row over ‘foreign agent’ campaign
In a statement issued on Thursday evening, officials demanded that Apple and Google, as well as VPN service providers Cloudflare and Cisco, stop allowing users to access banned sites. “During the pre-election campaign, it is prohibited to enable the violation of Russian legislation, including those related to election campaigning on …
Read More »US regulators threaten to sue Coinbase over crypto lending program
According to Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, the company received a Wells notice from the commission. “The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We have no idea why,” Grewal said in a blog post, adding that the SEC has told Coinbase it considers Lend …
Read More »Top FDA vaccine regulators rush for the exits, resign posts as Biden jumps the gun on booster jabs
Two of the top executives involved in vaccine research and testing at the Food and Drug Administration are leaving the agency, according to a Tuesday letter from Peter Marks, chief of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. Marion Gruber and Phil Krause were director and deputy director, respectively, …
Read More »US regulators want the ‘crypto’ out of cryptocurrency – because that will help them use it to control your every move
SEC Chair Gary Gensler cited “investor protection” as the reason the commission should have carte blanche to take the “crypto” out of “cryptocurrency” in a speech to fellow finance bigwigs on Tuesday, describing the sector as “like the Wild West” as he urged Congress to rein it in. But Gensler, …
Read More »Why are European regulators targeting US Big Tech? RT’s Boom Bust finds out
John Quelch, dean of the University of Miami Business School, says the reason is that it is quite profitable for countries to fine Big Tech – and also politically popular, since there are strong privacy concerns in Europe. Investigative journalist Ben Swann points out that, while the European competition regulators …
Read More »US regulators approve Johnson & Johnson single-shot coronavirus vaccine for emergency use
The US has now approved its third vaccine, with the J&J jab joining Pfizer and Moderna in the ongoing battle against the coronavirus. “The authorization of this vaccine expands the availability of vaccines, the best medical prevention method for Covid-19, to help us in the fight against this pandemic, which …
Read More »Putin ready to take Russian-made Covid-19 vaccine as regulators approve extension of Sputnik V rollout to all age groups – Kremlin
Speaking to the Rossiya 1 news channel, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin was poised to announce his intention to get the jab. “We can expect to hear from the president himself about the decision in the near future,” he said, adding that “he has actually previously said he would …
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