Twitter Halts Verification Process After Giving Fake Accounts Official Approval

The Verge reports that Twitter has suspended its verification program temporarily after verifying a number of fake accounts that appeared to be part of a botnet. Users that recently applied for verification may still receive it as existing applications continue to be processed, but new applications will not be considered.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/08/14/twitter-halts-verification-process-after-giving-fake-accounts-official-approval/

Bokhari: No, Rand Paul, YouTube Shouldn’t Have the ‘Right’ to Censor You

“As a libertarian leaning Senator, I think private companies have the right to ban me if they want to,” said Paul. “So in this case I’ll just channel that frustration into ensuring the public knows YouTube is acting as an arm of government and censoring their users for contradicting the government.”

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/08/14/bokhari-no-rand-paul-youtube-shouldnt-have-the-right-to-censor-you/

Companies mulling charging unvaccinated employees more for health coverage: report

Health analysts are saying that companies may begin charging unvaccinated employees more for their health insurance as the highly contagious delta variant has fueled more COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country.

Similar to the higher insurance premiums smokers may face due to being deemed a greater health risk, companies are now looking at the potential costs their unvaccinated employees may face should they get infected with COVID-19 and require medical treatment.

Wade Symons, a partner at benefits consulting firm Mercer Health, told CBS MoneyWatch on Friday that he expects some employers to increase health premiums for unvaccinated workers by as much as $20 to $50 per paycheck.

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"Unvaccinated individuals have potential to cost the employer more from a health care spend perspective," Symons explained, adding that “an individual with a tough COVID case” could get a hospital bill as high as $50,000.

The health insurance consultant said that a higher health premium for an unvaccinated worker “allows a company to say, 'OK, you have a choice to do it or not, but if you don't there will be a surcharge you have to pay.'”

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/567871-companies-mulling-charging-unvaccinated-employees-more-for-health-coverage

Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik DENIES claims she's an anti-vaxxer… after previously stating in 2012 parenting book she did not want her children vaccinated

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9892301/Jeopardy-host-Mayim-Bialik-says-shes-NOT-anti-vaxxer.html

As the Taliban closes in and the troops rush to avert disaster, the US is offering its citizens LOANS to flee Afghanistan

The US exit from Afghanistan is beginning to look more and more like 1975’s humiliating fall of Saigon, but American citizens fleeing the country need not fret – Uncle Sam has offered them loans to buy plane tickets.

That’s right, those decapitation-phobics who don’t want to fall into Taliban hands can get a “repatriation” loan from the US State Department. The usual terms and conditions surely apply.

The US Embassy in Kabul dangled the offer last week, when it advised all American citizens in Afghanistan to leave immediately “using available commercial flight options.” It provided a State Department email address for those who needed to apply for airfare financing. The loans were mentioned again when the embassy sent out a similar security alert on Thursday, offering essentially the same advice.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/532053-taliban-afghanistan-us-citizens-loans/

CNN slammed over misleading report that four Florida teachers died from COVID in one day

“An earlier version of this story mischaracterized one of the four people who died based on information provided by the Broward Teachers Union. That person has been identified as a female Broward County Public Schools graduate with close ties to the school district through her job.”

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/08/14/cnn-slammed-over-misleading-report-that-four-florida-teachers-died-from-covid-in-one-day-1118491/

27 people aboard almost fully vaccinated cruise ship test positive for COVID-19

“The team at Carnival noted that all positive cases have been isolated and contact tracing has ended with no additional positive cases found, and that the infected crew and passenger do not pose a threat to guests, crew or frontline workers in Belize,” the statement said.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/08/14/27-people-aboard-almost-fully-vaccinated-cruise-ship-test-positive-for-covid-19-1118605/