YouTuber Accused of Crashing His Plane for Views. Now the Feds Are Investigating

AYouTuber and former Olympic snowboarder has been accused of crashing his plane on purpose for clicks, and the FAA has opened an investigation to get to the bottom of the growing mess.
Read more: https://www.thedrive.com/news/43933/feds-investigating-youtuber-accused-of-faking-plane-crash-for-views?source=Snapzu

Amazon Delivery Vans Keep Getting Stuck in the Snow

On January 14, the owner of an Amazon delivery fleet in the Midwest spent more than $1,000 towing four Amazon delivery vans from the snow during a nasty winter blizzard. “When there are winter storms, we have a lot of vans that get stuck, which is not paid for by Amazon,” the owner told Motherboard, noting that he’s had vans get stuck in dirt roads, driveways, and once a cornfield that Amazon’s GPS system marked as a road.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88g5ek/amazon-delivery-vans-keep-getting-stuck-in-the-snow?source=Snapzu

Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’

Using unmarked police cars and uniforms without insignia, the town with no traffic lights collected $487 in fines and forfeitures in 2020 for every man, woman and child. Total town income more than doubled from 2018 to 2020 – from $582,000 to more than $1.2 million – as fines and forfeitures rose 640%.
Read more: https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/police-in-this-tiny-alabama-town-suck-drivers-into-legal-black-hole.html?s=09?source=Snapzu

New York and other north-eastern US states see a rapid fall in Covid cases

New York City and some north-eastern US states appear to be seeing rapid decreases in their numbers of Covid-19 cases in recent days, raising the possibility that the Omicron wave has now already peaked in some parts of America. In New York City the rolling seven-day average of new cases was less than 28,000 a day on 16 January, down from an average of more than 40,000 on 9 January.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/17/us-coronavirus-cases-decrease-latest?source=Snapzu

Facebook loses bid to dismiss users’ data-privacy antitrust claims

A California federal judge has handed a partial win to consumers suing Facebook, in a ruling that denied the company's bid to dismiss claims that it exploited user data to thwart industry competitors.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/facebook-loses-bid-dismiss-users-data-privacy-antitrust-claims-2022-01-18/?source=Snapzu

Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says 'nobody cares' about Uyghur genocide in China

Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya triggered a backlash on social media after saying during a recent episode of his podcast that “nobody cares” about the ongoing human rights abuses against the Uyghurs in China.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/17/chamath-palihapitiya-says-nobody-cares-about-uyghur-genocide-in-china.html?source=Snapzu

Lyft is spending millions to stop its Massachusetts drivers from becoming employees | Engadget

Two years after kneecapping efforts to classify drivers in California as employees rather than contractors, Lyft is returning to the same, expensive playbook on the East Coast..
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