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New York (CNN)All week long, The Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” series has invited comparisons of the social media platform to tobacco companies.The Journal relied on internal company documents it obtained to show Facebook (FB) knows, “in acute detail,” about the problems with its platforms. The assorted harms to users are well-documented. But, in the…

By Sahar Akbarzai and Nicole Chavez, CNNUpdated 3:07 AM ET, Sat September 18, 2021 (CNN)Decades after the last major exodus from Afghanistan, refugees find themselves forced to flee their homeland once again as the US war in Afghanistan ends and the Taliban rise to power.Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this week that the United…

Atlanta (CNN Business)The World Bank says it will stop publishing its annual Doing Business economic report after an independent investigation found bank leaders placed “undue pressure” on staffers to alter data to inflate the rankings for China and Saudi Arabia in 2018 and 2020 editions of the report. The bank commissioned the law firm WilmerHale…

New York (CNN Business)As the Taliban entered Kabul last month, the team behind the crowdsourced news alert app Ehtesab deserted their office in the city. But they continued their work of providing Afghans with critical information, such as which roads were congested and where outbreaks of violence had been reported. Days later, when two suicide…