The pagan mentality that’s taking over corporate America is truly astonishing.  
Apple just released an ad in which they effectively call for worship of Mother Nature. This is just pure pagan-Gaia-worship nonsense. In the commercial, Apple CEO Tim Cook and what we are to assume is the rest of the Apple board are meeting with Mother Nature, who is a black woman. This Mother Nature shows up to express her unease at the lack of progress corporate America has made in protecting her: the environment. 
A board member asks, “Mother Nature. Mother Nature. Welcome to Apple. How was the weather getting in?” 
“The weather was however I wanted it to be,” Mother Nature replies. “Let’s cut to the chase: In 2020, you promised to bring Apple’s entire carbon footprint to zero by 2030. Henry David Thoreau over here (the camera pans to Cook) said we have a profound opportunity to build a more sustainable future for the planet we share.” 
“I think our 10:00 said the same thing,” someone apparently working as an assistant for Mother Nature interjects.
“They all do,” Mother Nature says loftily. “All right. This is my third corporate responsibility gig today, so who wants to disappoint me first?”
“Well, we’ve got some updates we are excited to share with you,” a board member says hesitantly.
“Materials status,” Mother Nature cuts her off. 
“Is there a materials person here?” the assistant asks.
A woman nervously steps forward: “Yes. We are in the process of eliminating all plastic from our packaging by the end—”
“Let me guess,” Mother Nature interrupts. “Fifty years from now, when someone else is left holding the bag?”
“By the end of next year, actually,” the nervous woman answers. 
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How stupid is this? There are a few things that are incredibly stupid about this. This entire commercial was apparently unveiled at the Apple product launch to demonstrate just how environmentally friendly they are.
First of all, it begins with Mother Nature arriving and they say, how’s the weather? And it gets really dark. Mother Nature says, “Whatever I want it to be.”
So here’s the question: If the environment is whatever she wants it to be, what are we worried about her for? If Mother Nature is all that powerful, then why is it we are not seeking to protect ourselves from her and not the other way around? This, by the way, was the story of virtually all of human history until the last five minutes: Mother Nature trying to kill people and people trying to figure out a way not to die. It’s very much the story of all of human survival and civilization. It’s still the story of all of human survival and civilization. Immediate contradiction. 
Then it turns into: How can we worship at the altar of Mother Nature? What if we recycle all of our plastic? Don’t even use plastic. What if we recycle all the aluminum in our phones? 
This is what we’re proving to you? What good people we are? What amazing, amazing people we are? Don’t worry about values. Don’t worry about whether what you’re doing is good or evil in terms of the product you produce, what kind of protections it has for children, or how content actually reaches people via the phones and computers you put up. Don’t worry about any of that. What you really ought to worry about is Mother Nature. 
This is paganism. Worshiping nature is a form of paganism because the reality is, nature doesn’t care about you. If you are making pagan sacrifices to the gods and you’re offering up not grain and meat but recycled aluminum, I’m not sure what the difference is.
My favorite part about all of this is this supposed Apple board meeting with Mother Nature. It’s super diverse. There’s a black lady, an Asian woman, an Indian woman. Except the actual Apple board is the whitest group of people in human history — a very white group of people. There is possibly one person on this entire list who is not white. They wouldn’t want to put that in the commercial because that would just be a bunch of white people meeting with a black lady and that wouldn’t look nearly as good or quite as diverse. 
It’s good when the mask comes off, when corporate America says people like Tim Cook have a chief goal and that is this: to worship Mother Nature and use their giant company to do so.
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Ben Shapiro Editorial Series 09

Apple Worships Mother Nature. Welcome To Pagan America.

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Ben Shapiro

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Apple is set to host specialized entrepreneur training camps that bars applicants based on their race and sex. To participate, organizations must have &#8220;black, Hispanic/Latinx, or Indigenous&#8221; members in both leadership and on staff.
The <a href="https://developer.apple.com/entrepreneur-camp/how-to-apply/">program</a> will include two cohorts in October and November, the “underrepresented founders” and “female founders” groups. The camps, which offer valuable resources such as “one-on-one code-level guidance from Apple engineers,” list eligibility requirements that exclude would-be participants on the basis of their race and sex.
In order to participate in the underrepresented founders program, an organization must have “a black, Hispanic/Latinx, or Indigenous founder, cofounder, or CEO,” the eligibility requirements read. Organizations must also have a “black, Hispanic/Latinx, Indigenous, or female developer.”
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Meanwhile, Apple’s “female founders program” stipulates that in order to be eligible, applicants must have “a female founder, cofounder, or CEO” as well as “a female developer.”
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The program description denotes the word “female” with an asterisk and includes a note at the bottom of the page that reads “Apple believes that gender expression is a fundamental right. We welcome all women to apply to this program.”
David Bernstein, a professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law, told The Daily Wire that a plaintiff looking to sue Apple would have to reference California state law or the 1866 Civil Rights Act, which he stated is “generally held to be a bar to discriminating in any kind of contract based on race.”
“Apple might have some special legal obligations to the extent it’s a federal and state contractor,” Bernstein said.
The programs <a href="https://archive.ph/9Nq5w#selection-647.0-647.51">promise</a> “unprecedented access to Apple engineers and leaders” and also awards participants with access to the “extended network of Apple Entrepreneur Camp alumni” and a year of free access to “beta software, advanced app capabilities, extensive beta testing tools, and app analytics.”
Apple is far from the only major company to impose race and sex-specific requirements on training programs and internships.
The Daily Wire recently revealed multiple racially discriminatory programs hosted by well-known companies, including a “diversity internship” at NASCAR that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blatantly-illegal-nascar-bans-white-applicants-from-diversity-internship">banned</a> white applicants on the basis of their race and was called “blatantly illegal” by one lawyer.
NASCAR <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nascar-takes-down-blatantly-illegal-racial-requirement-for-internship-after-daily-wire-report">removed</a> the racial eligibility requirement following the report from The Daily Wire, but has not yet removed two other programs that similarly discriminate.
There are also multiple <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oracle-internship-scholarship-opportunities-bar-whites-and-asians-on-the-basis-of-race">internships at Oracle</a> that discriminate against both white and Asian applicants on the basis of their race, as well as a “<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2023/04/20/investment-management-firm-voya-excludes-whites-from-internship-scholarship/">diversity scholarship program</a>” at Voya Investment Management that was similarly not open to white applicants.
Meanwhile, major corporations like US Bank, Bayer, Best Buy, and Liberty Mutual participated in McKinsey and Company’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-bank-pharmaceutical-giant-participated-in-mckinsey-training-that-banned-white-people">Connected Leaders Academy</a>, which exclusively offered training to black, Hispanic, and Asian employees, but not to white employees.
Apple did not respond to a request for comment.

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Big tech streaming platform <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/apple" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apple</a> removed Blaze Media founder Glenn Beck&#8217;s nationally syndicated American culture and politics program from its iTunes platform on Wednesday for an unknown issue.
Beck, who is one of the first conservatives to venture out and create alternative media from the mainstream, announced in a <a href="https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1691872607820251600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> posted on X that he received an email from the Apple Podcasts Team that &#8220;The Glenn Beck Program&#8221; had been removed after they had &#8220;found an issue with [his show] &#8230; which must be resolved before it&#8217;s available on Apple Podcasts.&#8221;
&#8220;I have a feeling these &#8216;issues&#8217; with @Apple and others will keep happening the more we&#8217;re over the target,&#8221; Beck <a href="https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1691873812571177405" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on his X account.
The email reportedly directed Beck to follow a link for additional details, but only repeated that Apple Podcasts removed his program.
&#8220;Well, we got that one, dummy,&#8221; Beck said. &#8220;I mean — I cannot imagine what they are — what they&#8217;re basing this one on. I mean, have we even had strikes? Nothing, right? This is crazy. Crazy.&#8221;
Beck had been preparing for another episode of his program on Wednesday when his team found out they potentially became another example of big tech companies censoring conservative programs and personalities.
&#8220;This is absolutely freedom of speech,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing that we have said that would warrant any removal.&#8221;
According to his media company, the podcast host&#8217;s next episode is titled &#8220;Trump vs. Biden: Which is the Crime Family?&#8221; The summary describes Beck&#8217;s deep dive reviewing former President Donald Trump’s fourth indictment and the implications it could have on freedom of speech while comparing it to alleged evidence revealed regarding Hunter Biden and President Joe Biden.
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&#8220;Maybe that&#8217;s what it is &#8230; maybe they&#8217;re just smoked because, you know, I&#8217;m pointing out the real crime family tonight,&#8221; he said.
Although Apple has not issued a formal response, Beck appeared to give the company the benefit of the doubt by calling it a potential &#8220;glitch.&#8221;
&#8220;But it&#8217;s amazing how we have to have a whole bunch of people point out the glitch before the glitch is found, and it&#8217;s put back,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Man, this is — this is huge.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the closer and closer we get to this election, the more and more glitches are going to happen,&#8221; he added.
Blaze Media did not return requests for comment.
BlazeTV host Steve Deace <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1691885877100716065" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on social media, &#8220;Oh my. Even if it is a glitch, these &#8216;glitches&#8217; only seem to go one way.&#8221;
Daily Wire Co-Founder Jeremy Boreing <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1691892131072262552" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, &#8220;This must be a mistake. Glenn is one of the best men in the business and perhaps the greatest living broadcaster. Make this right.&#8221;
“The Glenn Beck Program” podcast remains available on his BlazeTV service, as well as other streaming platforms Spotify, YouTube, and Stitcher.
Six hours after Beck&#8217;s show was removed from the platform, the podcast host said Apple restored over 3000 episodes to iTunes but did not provide &#8220;clear answers&#8221; for the unknown issue.
&#8220;I want to thank everyone (on the left, right and everyone in between) who spoke up today,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1691943416542675201" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;I wish I had better answers from Apple on what happened, but you gave me hope that the issue of censorship is still bigger than politics.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a> Police Department officials encouraged residents to place <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/apple" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apple</a> AirTags in their <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cars</a> to prevent <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thefts</a>.
Grand larceny auto has drastically increased in New York City as the annual number of vehicle thefts in the broader United States <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/car-thefts-in-america-reach-highest-level-in-over-a-decade-analysis-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surpassed</a> one million for the first time in nearly two decades. New York City Democratic Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eric-adams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Adams</a> said at a Sunday <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/300-23/transcript-mayor-adams-makes-public-safety-announcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> that residents should use AirTags, which are small, disk-shaped devices that attach to keys, bikes, and other items, to help police officers track stolen vehicles.
“This simple device, this simple AirTag, hidden in a car at a location that a person is not aware of is an excellent tracking device. It&#8217;s easy to monitor,” Adams said. “As soon as we are notified about a grand larceny auto, and even if it&#8217;s days later, we can still track the car and find the person who&#8217;s driving and put a break on what we are experiencing in the city with grand larceny autos.”
AirTags presently <a href="https://www.apple.com/airtag/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sell</a> for $29 and require battery replacement once per year. NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey <a href="https://twitter.com/NYPDChiefOfDept/status/1652759702697017345?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on social media that officers would use drones and conventional police work to recover stolen cars with the aid of the AirTag.
Adams revealed that the Association for a Better New York would donate 500 AirTags for residents and added that the city would work with corporate partners to increase access to the technology.
“Your greatest investment is your automobile,” he continued. “It&#8217;s used for many different reasons: to get to and from your place of employment, to drop your children off every day, to deal with any medical procedures you may have.”
New York state witnessed a 23% increase in vehicle thefts between 2021 and 2022, according to a <a href="https://www.nicb.org/news/news-releases/vehicle-thefts-nationwide-surpass-one-million-first-time-2008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the National Insurance Crime Bureau. Thefts have particularly risen for certain Kia and Hyundai vehicles, which lack electronic immobilizers that prevent criminals from bypassing the ignition in cars manufactured by other companies. Viral social media videos have instructed young thieves on how to steal the vehicles, according to a <a href="https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/hyundais-kias-are-easy-targets-amid-boom-in-vehicle-thefts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
New York City officials have <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/242-23/mayor-adams-city-corporation-counsel-hinds-radix-city-intends-file-suit-against-kia-#:~:text=Due%20to%20the%20absence%20of,thefts%20in%20the%20preceding%20months." target="_blank" rel="noopener">asserted</a> that the increases in Kia and Hyundai thefts are attributable to the companies turning a “blind eye” to the vulnerability.
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“We have the right to expect that those cars have standard anti-theft measures,” Adams said last month. “We’re going to hold Kia and Hyundai accountable for the public nuisance they’ve created and protect New Yorkers’ cars.”
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New York Asks Residents To Put Apple AirTags In Their Cars As Vehicle Theft Soars

NYPD Wants Residents To Put Apple AirTags In Their Cars To Deter Vehicle Theft

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Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) urged <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/apple" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apple</a> CEO Tim Cook and <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/google" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google</a> CEO Sundar Pichai to remove <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> from the companies’ app stores over national security concerns.
ByteDance, the Beijing-based company which owns TikTok, has been accused of maintaining close ties with the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ccp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese Communist Party</a>. Bennet is the latest of several Republican and Democratic officials to express opposition to the social media platform’s presence in the United States; he warned the technology executives that Chinese law obligates ByteDance to “support, assist, and cooperate with state intelligence work.”
“These obvious risks render TikTok, in its current form, an unacceptable threat to the national security of the United States,” Bennet wrote in a <a href="https://www.bennet.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?id=F0E5599B-C7E4-47DC-8C9D-7AD46BC3EF93" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a>. “No company subject to CCP dictates should have the power to accumulate such extensive data on the American people or curate content to nearly a third of our population. Given these risks, I urge you to remove TikTok from your respective app stores immediately.”
Bennet also cited a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktoks-parent-company-in-china-planned-to-use-platform-to-track-locations-of-specific-americans-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Forbes which indicated that ByteDance planned to track the location of specific American citizens. An internal audit and risk department started by the company was initially supposed to investigate misconduct from current and former employees, but the team allegedly planned to collect data about the location of at least one American who had never been employed by ByteDance.
“TikTok’s prevalence in our country also allows it to amass extensive data on the American people, including device information, search and viewing history, message content, IP addresses, faceprints, and voiceprints,” Bennet continued. “Independent security researchers discovered that TikTok also had the capacity to engage in ‘keylogging,’ allowing it to monitor Americans’ keystrokes and inputs on third-party web browsers opened in the app, such as Apple’s Safari and Google Chrome.”
The letter comes shortly after President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-unanimously-votes-to-ban-tiktok-on-government-devices" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> legislation banning TikTok from all devices owned by the federal government. Several states, including Nebraska, Alabama, Iowa, and North Dakota, had previously banned the platform from government devices.
TikTok, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktok-was-most-visited-site-in-2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surpassed</a> Google and other competitors to become the most visited website in the world two years ago, pioneered the vertical video format that other firms have since <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-media-company-buzzfeed-to-dismiss-large-share-of-workforce" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sought</a> to emulate. Bennet said that the average American spends more than 80 minutes per day on the app, surpassing the amount of time spent on Facebook and Instagram combined.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is scheduled to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktok-ceo-will-testify-before-congress-as-national-security-privacy-concerns-grow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testify</a> before members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee next month. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) said in a <a href="https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/tik-tok-ceo-to-testify-at-energy-and-commerce-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> that the firm has “knowingly allowed the ability for the Chinese Communist Party to access American user data.”
Federal and state officials have become increasingly wary of Chinese companies. The Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-quietly-probes-chinese-tech-firm-for-possibly-harvesting-data-from-military-bases-missile-silos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigated</a> Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei over concerns that cell towers in the United States equipped with the company’s devices were transmitting data on nearby military facilities to the Chinese Communist Party. A final rule <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-makes-historic-move-to-block-certain-chinese-tech-after-national-security-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> last year by the Federal Communications Commission likewise prohibited Huawei, ZTE, Hikvision, and Dahua from importing and selling certain technology considered a potential threat to national security. The new rule, however, does not apply to technology currently within the nation’s borders.

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Actor Ryan Reynolds says that if a song from his holiday Apple TV+ offering &#8220;Spirited&#8221; were to earn an Academy Award nomination, he would feel obligated to &#8220;show up on that stage and embarrass myself.&#8221;
The song in question is titled &#8220;Good Afternoon&#8221; and is already reportedly on a &#8220;<a href="https://variety.com/feature/2023-oscars-best-original-song-predictions-1235396256/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shortlist</a>&#8221; shared by entertainment site Variety:
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<li>“Lift Me Up” by Tems, Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna and Ryan Coogler (&#8220;Black Panther: Wakanda Forever&#8221;)</li>
<li>“Naatu Naatu” by Kala Bhairava, M. M. Keeravani, Rahul Sipligunj (&#8220;RRR&#8221;)</li>
<li>“Ciao Papa” by Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz and Guillermo del Toro (&#8220;Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s Pinocchio&#8221;)</li>
<li>“Applause” by Diane Warren (&#8220;Tell it Like a Woman&#8221;)</li>
<li>“Til You’re Home” by Rita Wilson (&#8220;A Man Called Otto&#8221;)</li>
<li>&#8220;Hold My Hand” by Lady Gaga and Bloodpop (&#8220;Top Gun: Maverick&#8221;)</li>
<li>“This is a Life” by David Byrne, Ryan Lott and Mitski (&#8220;Everything Everywhere All at Once&#8221;)</li>
<li>“Carolina” by Taylor Swift (&#8220;Where the Crawdads Sing&#8221;)</li>
<li>&#8220;Good Afternoon” by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (&#8220;Spirited&#8221;)</li>
<li>“Stand Up” by Jazmine Sullivan and D’Mile (&#8220;Till&#8221;)</li>
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&#8220;Good Afternoon&#8221; writer Justin Paul <a href="https://variety.com/2023/artisans/awards/ryan-reynolds-spirited-good-afternoon-oscars-original-song-1235489178/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Variety</a> that he&#8217;d love to see the song nominated, in part because he&#8217;d love to see actors Reynolds and Will Ferrell perform the number live at the Academy Awards.
&#8220;I need them on stage,&#8221; he said.
And Reynolds appears to be amenable to that, though he&#8217;s not expecting it. &#8220;I’m not thinking about that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Look, if this song is nominated for an Academy Award, I would say that the least I can do is show up on that stage and embarrass myself.&#8221;
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The one person likely to be disappointed — should &#8220;Spirited&#8221; get the nod and land Reynolds alongside Ferrell on the Oscars&#8217; stage — is &#8220;X-Men&#8221; actor Hugh Jackman. <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-hugh-jackman-begs-academy-not-to-nominate-ryan-reynolds/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jackman</a>, who often trades barbs with Reynolds — and is set to appear with him in the next &#8220;Deadpool&#8221; movie — shared his concerns about the prospect.
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But don’t get me wrong … <a href="https://t.co/8ymOYUOq9m">pic.twitter.com/8ymOYUOq9m</a>
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In a video posted just after the new year, Jackman begged the Academy not to nominate Reynolds, claiming it would &#8220;make the next year of my life insufferable.&#8221;
Reynolds responded with a video of his own, first calling on the Academy to nominate Jackman for his role in &#8220;The Son&#8221; and then, after apparently pretending to shut the feed off, mumbled under his breath about him.
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For Hugh-r consideration. <a href="https://t.co/0qDASD4xDm">pic.twitter.com/0qDASD4xDm</a>
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Apple, Inc. was slapped with a new class action <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/616578588/Apple-Sued-Over-Racial-Bias-in-Heart-Rate-Monitoring#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> Christmas Eve alleging the pulse oximetry feature on the Apple Watch product doesn&#8217;t work on people with a &#8220;darker skin tone.&#8221;
Plaintiff Alex Morales of New York filed a multi-state lawsuit on behalf of the state and nine others under consumer fraud laws against the tech giant in the Southern District of New York last week.
Morales, who said he purchased an Apple Watch between 2020 and 2021, claims he was unaware the pulse oximetry feature, which measures the oxygen level of a wearer&#8217;s blood directly from their wrist, was biased against people with darker skin tones.
&#8220;For decades, there have been reports that such devices were significantly less accurate in measuring blood oxygen levels based on skin color,&#8221; the lawsuit alleges. &#8220;The &#8216;real world significance&#8217; of this bias lay unaddressed until the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic, which converged with a greater awareness of structural racism which exists in many aspects of society.&#8221;
According to the lawsuit, researchers claim the clinical significance of racial bias in pulse oximetry came from records of patients taken during and before the pandemic.
The conclusion showed that &#8220;reliance on pulse oximetry to triage patients and adjust supplemental oxygen levels may place Black patients at increased risk for hypoxemia.&#8221;
Health care recommendations base blood oxygen levels on readings, the lawsuit says, allegedly giving white patients more access to care than those with darker skin when faced with equally low blood oxygenation.
Representatives for Apple, the lawsuit reads, affirmed and promised that it did not incorporate biases and defects of pulse oximetry concerning persons of darker skin tone.
The Food and Drug Administration held a panel last month, which USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/11/03/pulse-oximeter-inaccurate-people-of-color/8256798001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> discussed studies that found pulse oximeter devices register higher oxygen level readings in people with darker skin tones.
Amal Jubran, a pulmonologist at Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois, told the outlet that researchers identified the problem in the 1990s.
&#8220;It never got any traction, then the COVID pandemic brought everything to the forefront,&#8221; Jubran said.
Jubran and a colleague published a peer-reviewed study in the European Respiratory Journal that found inaccurate oximeter readings in darker-skinned patients remained &#8220;unchanged&#8221; for 32 years.
Michael Sjoding, a fellow University of Michigan clinical professor, told the outlet that past work showed pulse oximeters produced less accurate results in darkly pigmented patients.
&#8220;What was described in these older studies might still be happening,&#8221; Sjoding said.
The clinical professor conducted a study in 2020 along with other colleagues, which found that 11.7% of black patients registered higher than accurate oxygen levels on pulse oximeters compared to 3.6% of white patients.
Apple released its signature Watch product nearly eight years ago. It quickly became one of the most wearable devices after 4.2 million users purchased one in the second quarter of the fiscal year 2015. By December 2020, more than 100 million people were estimated to use an Apple Watch.
Apple Insider <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/12/27/apple-watch-sensor-has-racial-bias-claims-new-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in 2015 that the tech giant faced another lawsuit concerning the skin when users complained that black wrist tattoos interfered with the device&#8217;s heart sensor.
&#8220;Permanent or temporary changes to your skin, such as some tattoos, can also impact heart rate sensor performance,&#8221; read an updated Apple support page, according to the outlet. &#8220;The ink, pattern, and saturation of some tattoos can block light from the sensor, making it difficult to get reliable readings.&#8221;
Such issues happened before the blood oxygen sensor problem came to light, which Apple added to the Apple Watch Series 6 in 2020.
Apple has yet to respond to media requests for comment.

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The Daily Wire has placed in two Top 10 Apple Charts based on the listenership of leading podcast episodes, shows, channels, and subscriptions for 2022.
According to new year-end charts released by the tech giant on Monday, &#8220;The Ben Shapiro Show&#8221; ranked number nine out of 20 in Apple&#8217;s Top Shows category, while The Daily Wire secured number five out of 20 in the Top Free Channels of 2022.
Apple, which releases information about the top podcasts on its platform each year, said the charts reflect the most popular audio shows in each local market from listeners in nearly 100 countries and regions worldwide based on listenership between November 1, 2021, through October 31, 2022.
&#8220;This means listeners in the U.S. can browse the Top New Shows among listeners in the U.S. while listeners in France can browse the Top New Shows among listeners in France — helping people discover popular podcasts that are relevant to them and in their local language,&#8221; Apple <a href="https://wccftech.com/apple-shares-top-podcasts-of-2022/">wrote</a> of the new lists in the app.
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Shapiro, editor emeritus of The Daily Wire, has been one of the top voices for American conservatives since becoming a nationally syndicated columnist when he was just 17 years old.
His flagship show for The Daily Wire covers the nation&#8217;s top political personalities while breaking down American culture.
Other Daily Wire personalities with shows available on Apple Podcasts include Andrew Klavan, Michael Knowles, Candace Owens, and Matt Walsh. DailyWire+ host Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is also on Apple Podcasts.
The Daily Wire also launched &#8220;Morning Wire&#8221; last year, an alternative news podcast covering the latest developments in politics, culture, education, and sports, presented by the company&#8217;s Editor-in-Chief John Bickley, and co-host Georgia Howe.
Oliver Schusser, Apple&#8217;s vice president of Apple Music and Beats, said in a <a href="https://www.apple.com/jo/newsroom/2022/11/apple-announces-the-2022-apple-podcasts-award-winner/">news release</a> that &#8220;podcasting plays an important role in our lives — helping us stay informed, keep entertained, and get inspired.&#8221;
Apple&#8217;s top three overall podcasts in 2022 include &#8220;Crime Junkie,&#8221; &#8220;The Daily,&#8221; and &#8220;Dateline NBC.&#8221;

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Two women have filed a class action lawsuit against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/apple" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apple</a> over its AirTag devices, which they claim allowed their ex partners to stalk them.
On Monday, the proposed class action lawsuit was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/06/business/apple-airtag-lawsuit.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. It reportedly alleges that Apple did not put in place sufficient safety parameters that would keep stalkers from using the devices to keep track of victims.
“With a price point of just $29, it has become the weapon of choice of stalkers and abusers,” the lawsuit reportedly said.
The plaintiffs also <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63880969" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> allege that the devices were connected to murders of women in Indiana and Ohio this year. They also <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-is-sued-by-women-who-say-airtag-lets-stalkers-track-victims-2022-12-06/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> AirTag is &#8220;the weapon of choice of stalkers and abusers.”
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AirTags are devices that allow people to keep track of their belongings that they may otherwise lose track of, such as wallets and keys.
One of the women in the lawsuit, Lauren Hughes of Travis County, Texas, said that she realized she was being tracked by an AirTag in August of last year. A three-month relationship had ended between her and her ex-partner, and the person began to write abusive messages on her social media pages, as well as leave threats on her voicemail.
She ended up moving after the person put objects outside of her apartment, but she realized while she was living at a hotel that she was being stalked. Her phone notified her that an unfamiliar AirTag was moving with her — which she discovered hidden in her car’s wheel well.
The second woman involved in the suit resides in New York and discovered an AirTag in her kid&#8217;s backpack over the summer. She found the device following a “contentious divorce.” The lawsuit claims that the woman&#8217;s stalker had “a commitment to continuing to use AirTags to track, harass, and threaten her.”
The class action filing is looking to win an undefined amount of damages for those who own Android or iOS devices who have been monitored with an AirTag or who are at risk of being victims of stalking.
The BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60004257" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in January that multiple women had said they were tracked with AirTag devices.
&#8220;If you create an item which is useful for tracking stolen items, then you have also created a perfect tool for stalking,&#8221; Eva Galperin, Director of Cyber-Security at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the outlet at the time.
&#8220;I have personally talked to several people who have found AirTags in their possession,&#8221; she said.
When it launched the AirTags, Apple made the claim that “AirTags are designed to track items not people.”

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Apple CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-cook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Cook</a> hid behind staffers Tuesday to avoid answering questions from a reporter who grilled him on Apple enabling the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/communist-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s</a> human rights abuses.
Cook hid from Fox News reporter Hillary Vaughn as he was leaving a <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple-ceo-tim-cook-flies-meet-gop-lawmakers-standoff-elon-musks-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meeting</a> with U.S. lawmakers in the nation&#8217;s capital.
&#8220;Do you support the Chinese people&#8217;s right to protest?&#8221; Vaughn asked.
Cook did not respond.
&#8220;Do you have any reaction to the factory workers that were beaten and detained for protesting COVID lockdowns?&#8221; Vaughn asked.
Cook did not respond.
&#8220;Do you regret restricting airdrop access that protesters used to evade surveillance from the Chinese government?&#8221; Vaughn asked.
Cook did not respond.
&#8220;Do you think it&#8217;s problematic to do business with the Communist Chinese Party when they suppress human rights?&#8221; Vaughn asked.
Cook did not respond.
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🚨WATCH: Apple CEO Tim Cook ignores our questions on China as zero-COVID lockdown protests rage in the country. Full video 👇🏻 <a href="https://t.co/m0NpgRN6U4">pic.twitter.com/m0NpgRN6U4</a>
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Protests <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/protests-against-covid-lockdowns-erupt-across-china-some-turn-violent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intensified</a> over the weekend in major cities across China, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan. According to media reports, a demonstration in Shanghai eventually devolved into chaos, with police clashing with protesters and deploying pepper spray. The protests emerged as a response to the “zero COVID” policies imposed by the Chinese Communist Party government since the beginning of the pandemic.
The protests reportedly began on Thursday after ten people were killed in a fire at a residential high-rise building in Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Videos of the incident posted on social media spawned accusations that lockdowns contributed to the deaths, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/world/asia/china-protests-covid.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> and Reuters reported. Residents of the city have been locked down and prevented from leaving their homes for as long as 100 days at a time, Reuters added.
According to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-health-china-fires-covid-4ffc00e5f6761be48f5887d57d66c708" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a> and Reuters, protesters gathered at Wulumuqi Road in Shanghai on Saturday, which is named after Urumqi, to hold a candlelight vigil in memory of the victims of the fire. Around 100 police officers stood by to reportedly keep demonstrators from gathering.
At some point during the night, police deployed pepper spray into a crowd of about 300 protesters. A witness told the AP that one of his friends was beaten, and two others were pepper sprayed. He added that police stepped on his feet while he tried to prevent them from taking his friend away; he also lost his shoes in the chaos and was left barefoot.
Outside Shanghai, major cities and college campuses were also the scenes of major protests. Reuters reported that demonstrations broke out in the cities of Wuhan, Chengdu, Lanzhou, and Beijing on Sunday. Protests in Wuhan reportedly turned violent, with demonstrators smashing through metal barricades, overturning testing tents, and demanding an end to lockdowns. The New York Times reported another protest in the city of Korla in northern Xinjiang.
John Rigolizzo contributed to this report.
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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lindsey-graham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lindsey Graham</a> (R-SC) said during a Fox News interview Wednesday that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/apple" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apple</a> is making a big &#8220;mistake&#8221; when it comes to siding with the Chinese Communist Party and their crackdowns on protests throughout China.
&#8220;Corporate appeasement of the Chinese Communist Party is pretty rampant,&#8221; Graham told Fox News. &#8220;I like Apple. They&#8217;re a great American company. But the Chinese Communist Party writes the rules of the road. And to do business in China, you either leave the customer base or you follow their lead.&#8221;
&#8220;The NBA has appeased China. The movie industry appeases China, now Apple. And I think this is a &#8212; this is a mistake,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So, you have got Apple threatening to take Twitter out of the Apple Store and at the same time doing the bidding of the Communist Party, restricting sharing of information to people who are trying to protest.&#8221;
&#8220;I think we have got it backwards here,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And I think what drives this is just money and market share.&#8221;
On Wednesday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk met with Apple CEO Tim Cook, after which Musk tweeted regarding the notion that Twitter would be removed from the App Store: “Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so.”
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<blockquote>SANDRA SMITH, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: The Chinese Communist Party cracking down on protesters as they rally against COVID lockdowns.
We are now learning America&#8217;s largest company, Apple, has restricted the use of its AirDrop feature in the communist nation. It allowed users to share content between Apple devices and dodge China&#8217;s censorship. And now Elon Musk says Apple&#8217;s threatening to boot Twitter from its App Store.
So, how did we get to a point where big tech companies consider 280 characters a bigger threat than the communist regime?
Let&#8217;s bring in South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.
Senator, good to have you here today.
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC): Thank you.
SMITH: Why are we here today? And why are we not going tougher on China for its behavior?
GRAHAM: Money. You got a billion people in China.
Corporate appeasement of the Chinese Communist Party is pretty rampant. I like Apple. They&#8217;re a great American company. But the Chinese Communist Party writes the rules of the road. And to do business in China, you either leave the customer base or you follow their lead.
The NBA has appeased China. The movie industry appeases China, now Apple. And I think this is a &#8212; this is a mistake. So, you have got Apple threatening to take Twitter out of the Apple Store and at the same time doing the bidding of the Communist Party, restricting sharing of information to people who are trying to protest.
I think we have got it backwards here. And I think what drives this is just money and market share.
JOHN ROBERTS, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Yes, well, obviously too Apple has got a lot invested in this&#8230;
GRAHAM: Yes.
ROBERTS: &#8230; because of the protests against the COVID lockdowns at Foxconn factories. It looks like Apple is going to be short some six million iPhone Pros this year. So that&#8217;s definitely going to hurt their bottom line.
But it also gets into the idea of free speech when we pull back to 30,000 feet here, and we take a look at the idea that Apple, according to Elon Musk, may reexamine whether or not the Twitter app is available on the Apple Store.
And Musk also tweeted this &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?&#8221;
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GRAHAM: Well, all I can say, that Apple is a private company and Twitter&#8217;s a private company. They have their differences.
I would hope that Apple would keep allowing Twitter to be part of the Apple Store. But, big tech, you can&#8217;t sue these people because of Section 230. And there&#8217;s no regulatory scheme that works.
So I&#8217;m going to unveil a Digital Regulatory Commission to deal with social media companies like Apple and Twitter and Google. We need some regulatory environment to control the abuses of power here. So, I&#8217;m going to do that with Elizabeth Warren. You look for something that can bring us together in Washington, social media is out of control. They need to be regulated in some fashion.
And I think that brings both parties together.
SMITH: OK, so then maybe you agree with Karine Jean-Pierre at the Biden White House, who said this. Listen.
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KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: We&#8217;re all keeping a close eye on this. We&#8217;re all monitoring what&#8217;s &#8212; what&#8217;s currently occurring. And we see &#8212; we see it with our own eyes of what you all are reporting and just for ourselves what&#8217;s happening on Twitter.
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SMITH: So, the White House says it&#8217;s keeping a close eye on what is happening at Twitter.
GRAHAM: Yes.
SMITH: Do you agree with &#8212; with that?
GRAHAM: No, I think somebody needs to regulate social media companies, who are the largest companies on the planet.
If they take down your content &#8212; I like Elon Musk. Well, there may be somebody in charge of Twitter tomorrow that I don&#8217;t like. So, what happens if you&#8217;re a consumer if Twitter or any other group takes your content down? You have to appeal to the company yourself &#8212; itself.
I want to create a process where a consumer can make their case that my rights were abused to somebody other than the company. I&#8217;m not asking the White House to watch Twitter. We have the commission for securities. We have a commission for about every activity in America to make sure the consumer is protected.
When it comes to social media, your privacy is at risk, your content can be taken down because somebody doesn&#8217;t like you or what you&#8217;re saying. We need to have a system to deal with those problems.</blockquote>
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Twitter CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> met with Apple CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-cook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Cook</a> Wednesday at Apple&#8217;s headquarters in Cupertino, California, and said that they resolved the conflict that erupted this week.
&#8220;Good conversation,&#8221; Musk tweeted. &#8220;Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so.&#8221;
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Good conversation. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so.
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598090996281413638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The meeting came after Musk signaled Monday that he was willing to “go to war” with Apple after the company had largely stopped advertising on Twitter and had allegedly threatened to boot the social media platform from its App Store.
Musk specifically called out Cook in a series of tweets where he also raised the issue of censorship.
“Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?” Musk asked. “What’s going on here @tim_cook?”
“Apple has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why,” Musk added.
Musk then posted a poll, which he has used in the past to make decisions about what he will do at the company, asking, “Apple should publish all censorship actions it has taken that affect its customers[?]”
Musk highlighted an account that claimed to have been silenced by Apple and asked, “Who else has Apple censored?”
Musk also renewed his criticisms of the fees that Apple charges app developers, “Did you know Apple puts a secret 30% tax on everything you buy through their App Store?”
Account impersonations and Musk’s endorsement of some conservative figures have provoked ire among left-wing nonprofits, some of whom recently pressured advertisers to cease their relationship with the social media company. Several organizations endorsed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/extremely-messed-up-elon-musk-blasts-activist-groups-for-pushing-advertisers-to-ditch-twitter-destroy-free-speech-in-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the executives of major advertisers, claiming that “extremists” consider the takeover “a new opportunity to post the most abusive, harassing, and racist language and imagery,” including “clear threats of violence against people with whom they disagree.”
The world’s richest man initially <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> advertisers that he acquired Twitter to “have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence.” He vowed that the social media platform would not become a “free-for-all hellscape” where users could breach the law with impunity.
Musk has <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593385611632594944" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> that widespread coverage of the acquisition and his subsequent attempts to reform the company, including negative reports from legacy outlets, has contributed to usage reaching record levels. He said his number-one priority is the <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595671290421170179" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removal</a> of child exploitation content from Twitter, which previous management neglected to accomplish. Several advertisers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-companies-remove-advertisements-from-twitter-over-child-pornography-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paused campaigns</a> on the platform two months ago after a report showed that child sexual abuse material had appeared alongside major advertisers’ profiles.
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