'Google to buy Apple': Dow Jones newswires apologize for bizarre fake news

Published time: 10 Oct, 2017 19:31 Dow Jones Newswires published multiple fake headlines shortly after markets opened Tuesday morning, sparking fears it had been hacked. Headlines published Tuesday morning included: “DJ UPDATE: Google, Apple Join to Create Tech Giant,” “DJ Google to buy Apple for $ 9 billion,” “DJ Google Says Yay” and “DJ Google […]

Upload founders apologize for ‘turmoil’ caused by their response to ‘kink room’ harassment lawsuit

On the heels of settling a sexual harassment lawsuit earlier this month, the founders of virtual reality startup Upload have broken their public silence with an apology for how they handled the issue. The lawsuit was filed in the spring and was settled earlier in September. However, it was apparently only as the New York Times was […]

‘Apologize for untruth!’: Trump enters the White House’s fight with ESPN

REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst President Donald Trump took a shot at ESPN on Twitter days after an anchor called him a white supremacist. “ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming). People are dumping it in RECORD numbers. Apologize for untruth!” Trump tweeted. Jamele Hill, cohost of the hour-long program “SC6,” tweeted on […]

What Hootsuite founder Ryan Holmes learned from his own social media fail: ‘Own it. Apologize.’

FEATURE: Hootsuite founder and CEO Ryan Holmes is a passionate advocate on the topic of why executives need to be active on social media. But for a brief moment this year, he became a case study in how that can go wrong. Since then, Holmes has been trying to be an example of how to […]

‘Suck my balls’: F1 driver refuses to apologize for comments ahead of Belgian Grand Prix

Published time: 25 Aug, 2017 16:19 Danish F1 driver Kevin Magnussen has refused to apologize for obscene comments made to fellow driver Nico Hulkenberg following a spat between the two during the Hungarian Grand Prix. Magnussen squeezed Hulkenberg wide in Hungary last month and was slapped with a five-second penalty. However, German Hulkenberg was still […]

Aussie university professor forced to apologize for ‘inaccurate’ China-India border map

The lingering Sino-Indian border spat spilled over into Sydney University campus, where outraged Chinese students made an IT lecturer apologize over the use of an outdated map listing a contested border area as part of India’s territory. A world map used by Khimji Vaghjiani, an associate professor at the University of Sydney reading the course […]

Breitbart forced to apologize for confusing jet-skiing World Cup-winner with illegal migrant

Published time: 21 Aug, 2017 15:00 Right-wing news outlet Breitbart has apologized after it published a photograph of German footballer Lukas Podolski, claiming he was an illegal migrant traveling by jet-ski from Morocco to Spain. The article, published on Friday and headlined ‘Spanish police crack gang moving migrants on jet-skis’, aimed to raise awareness of […]

Canada’s Trudeau asks Pope to apologize for Catholic Church’s abuse of indigenous children

Published time: 30 May, 2017 04:32 Edited time: 30 May, 2017 04:34 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked Pope Francis to visit Canada to apologize for decades of abuse suffered by indigenous children in schools run by the Catholic Church. Canada’s “residential schools” system was set up in the late 19th century to assimilate […]

Justin Trudeau invited Pope Francis to Canada to apologize for the Church’s treatment of aboriginal children

ROME (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday urged Pope Francis to visit Canada to apologize to indigenous peoples for the Catholic Church’s treatment of aboriginal children in schools it ran there. Starting in the late 19th century, about 30 percent of children of Canada’s native peoples, or about 150,000 children, were placed […]

‘Can’t apologize for telling truth’: Suspended ex-London Mayor Livingstone avoids Labour expulsion

A Labour Party committee upheld the charges leveled at Ken Livingstone for his comments about the links between Hitler and Zionism last year, but did not expel the former mayor of London from its ranks. The time-limited sanction has provoked outrage from Jewish groups. Following two days of legal and historical deliberations behind closed doors, […]