Heil declares war on cheap wages in digital platforms Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil wants cheap wages for food delivery services and other booming digital platforms put a bolt forward. “I will not allow digitization to be confused with exploitation in the platform economy,” Heil told the dpa. According to the key points of the Ministry of Labor, self-employed platform workers should also enjoy social protection and appropriate working conditions in the future. According to Heil, the topic is also on the agenda at the government’s digital summit on Monday and Tuesday. “There are platforms where I by no means have the impression that precarious work predominates,” said the SPD minister. For example with the craft platforms. But fair conditions are generally necessary.

More and more vaccination disinformation on Facebook In view of the in the Experts from the counseling firm CounterAction have looked for reasons for this in social networks, in which opinions are often helped to shape, with the whole EU declining to vaccinate. They struck gold on Facebook, among other places. In Germany the observers found more than 30. 000 Postings with incorrect information on this topic. For example, users compared vaccinations with the Holocaust. There was also anti-Semitic content about an alleged Zionist conspiracy. According to the study, two million Germans belong to such groups.

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Disney fires 15 percent of the workforce The US media group Disney has been hit particularly hard by the Corona crisis. Now more employees are to be laid off than last announced. Worldwide should not 28. 000, rather 32. 000 Employees are laid off, 37.000 Further are on compulsory leave. The employees about to be laid off work primarily in the amusement parks, which attract significantly fewer visitors even after the mandatory closings have ended.

China’s flight to the moon China has already made many trips to the moon. Nevertheless, the Chang’e 5 launched this week is something very special. The space probe, named after the Chinese moon goddess, is not only supposed to drop a rover on the surface, as in previous missions, but also return to Earth with rock samples. If successful, it would be the first time in 37 years that rock samples would be returned to Earth. After the USA and the Soviet Union, China would be in the 60 he and 70 years only the third space travel nation to succeed in such a project.

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