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☆ Industrious merges subsidiary to create a new force in coworking
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Daniel Geiger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A spokesman for Industrious said it would own a 40% stake in the merged subsidiary. The vacancy rate for office space nationally hit 18.6% at the end of 2023, according to data from CBRE– the highest level since 1992. About 771 million square feet, about twice the size of Manhattan's entire office market, sits empty nationally. How Industrious won the coworking warHodari has been an astute and resilient player in the coworking business. At the time, most coworking companies sought to rent space from landlords then sublease that to their clientele at a hefty markup.

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☆ Ex-Meta staffers see booming business targeting online disinformation after two wars break out
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +15 min

Wagner left Facebook parent Meta last year, and her work in trust and safety feels like it was from a prior era. One of her first investments was in a startup called Cove, which was founded by former Meta trust and safety staffers. "One thing I would recommend is transparency at a time where third-party access and understanding to what is going on at scale on social platforms is what is needed." Post is an example of the kinds of companies that trust and safety startups are focused on. Fishman said customers are starting to see trust and safety tools as almost an extension of their cybersecurity budgets.

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☆ Fact Check-Claims that George Soros praised Ron DeSantis are missing context
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Social media users (here), (here), (here) are sharing a post that misleadingly suggests Soros supports DeSantis as a presidential candidate: “Trump gets praise from Tucker Carlson. Why is that?”Responses to the posts include comments such as: “Is Soros funding DeSANTIS??? DeSantis ‘is likely to be the Republican candidate’ for president in 2024 - a prediction, not an endorsement,” Silber said in an email. Reuters found no record of Soros publicly praising DeSantis (tinyurl.com/mrne9esp), (tinyurl.com/ywhaab6t). There is no evidence that Soros publicly praised DeSantis.

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☆ Fact Check-No evidence for alleged George Soros ‘life mission’ quote in Newsweek interview
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Memes shared on Twitter (here) and Facebook (here) (here) read: “’I’ve made my life’s mission to destroy the United States. I hate this country and I hate all of the people in it,’ George Soros, Newsweek 1979.”Laura Silber, a spokesperson for Soros-funded Open Society Foundations told Reuters that Soros had not “ever expressed such sentiments.”“We can absolutely confirm that George Soros gave no such interview to Newsweek in 1979,” Silber said via email. Soros was indeed interviewed by the outlet in 2009, but no such quotation about his “life’s work” is included in the report by The Australian. There is no public record of George Soros saying this to Newsweek in 1979. The quotation has been debunked before and a spokesperson for Soros told Reuters he never made such a statement.

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