Author: Erin Elizabeth

This week, Mark Zuckerberg found himself in front of Congress twice to answer questions about the company’s data collection practices and the need for new regulation, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. RELATED STORY: Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data Although Zuckerberg apologized in the previous hearing for Facebook not taking “a broad enough view”1 of its responsibility to users (I don’t believe for one minute he or the corporation is sorry) he “faltered somewhat”2 on Wednesday. When Rep. Frank Pallone, a Democrat from New Jersey, asked him...

Denver Broncos player Von Miller, who was also SuperBowl 50 MVP, is under investigation for reeling in a hammerhead shark while fishing off the coast of South Florida.4 Killing the shark would have been a wildlife violation but it appears that after taking a photo with the large shark, it was released back into the ocean. The photo and video he shared to his accounts have been taken down. As you can see from the picture, the shark is bloodied and worse for wear. This catch seems cruel and unnecessary to me. Because it’s unclear if the shark was dead...

A 27-year-old Russian woman who had been in a hospital in Ulyanovsk for a routine surgery, has died after medical staff put her on a formalin drip, a solution that contains formaldehyde, instead of saline. And now Ekaterina Fedyaeva’s mother is calling murder because she repeatedly begged doctors to help “but they told her to go home, cook chicken soup and stop worrying.”5 Fedyaeva’s bereaved mother said: “We had no idea it was formalin. And they knew very well that they washed up her body with a poison – and they did nothing to help…Now I understand that formalin was...