Tag: Philanthropy

Dutch junior finance minister quits after questions over his personal investments

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The Dutch junior minister for finance quit Friday following criticism of his refusal to publish details of his personal...

Report says crowd-sourced fact checks on X fail to address flood of US election misinformation

SAN FRANCISCO -- X's crowd-sourced fact-checking program, called Community Notes, isn't addressing the flood of U.S. election misinformation on Elon Musk's social media...

AI is being used to send some households impacted by Helene and Milton $1,000 cash relief payments

Nearly 1,000 hurricane-impacted households in North Carolina and Florida will benefit this week from a new disaster aid program that employs a model...

Miners are razing forests to meet surging demand for metals and minerals, report says

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Whether it's digging for metals and minerals for cellphones and electric vehicles or coal for power generation, mining around the...

GoFundMe bets social media can unlock Gen Z giving. A Meta partnership and new tools will test that

NEW YORK -- New GoFundMe tools will make it easier to circulate causes across online platforms in a push to cater toward younger...

‘Kindness’ influencers on TikTok give money to strangers. Why is that controversial?

Every Christmas growing up in Minnesota, Jimmy Darts’ parents gave him $200 in cash: $100 for himself and $100 for a stranger. Now,...

Comedy failed us, again.