Astronomer Michael Brown famously helped demote Pluto a decade ago.
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Facebook and Oculus have declined to punish or demote Luckey.
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Mulvaney might move to demote or fire her at this point.
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That he would reportedly demote the agent shows us his character.
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Instead, it opted to essentially demote that content by reducing its reach.
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Conversely, my advice would be to demote Gillibrand from that top tier.
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The proposal for the science adviser's office would effectively demote the adviser.
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Does this then demote Nest to a mere maker of "dumb" hardware products?
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To answer the question, one is forced to demote sound while privileging sense.
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It is illegal to fire or demote an employee because of a pregnancy.
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Still, the president has reportedly considered trying to fire or demote Mr. Powell.
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The official also said the White House had no plans to demote Powell.
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He's also threatened that he has the power to demote and even fire Powell.
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Luckily, the feed's algorithm can simply demote generic content that doesn't resonate with people.
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How it works: Facebook will demote these types of spammy posts that bait engagement.
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Trump has publicly said he could fire or demote Powell, his own nominee as chair.
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Pittsburgh has 212 days to decide whether to release, trade or demote Stallings, who batted .
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Not only does Ren demote Hux, he raises general Pryde—an Imperial holdover—to prominence.
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"I have the right to demote him, I have the right to fire him," he said.
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Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, said Trump is not planning to demote Powell.
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The machine learning system then would identify and demote future stories that featured those clickbait phrases.
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Prior to the village board's decision to demote Brewster, the firefighter underwent a civil service hearing.
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It may be time to demote him to coach — or remove him from the plane altogether.
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The decision to demote Chapman was based on his poor form of late — he has allowed seven runs in his past four appearances — but it was still stunning to see the Yankees demote a player they signed to a five-year, $86 million contract last December.
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Facebook says it's also now going to demote videos from Pages that are involved in Sharing Schemes.
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However, she stressed she didn't think it's time to "invalidate or demote RuPaul" after this recent mishap.
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TRUMP SAYS HE DID NOT THREATEN TO DEMOTE FED CHAIRMAN JEROME POWELL - NBC 'MEET THE PRESS' INTERVIEW
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In 2010, Justice Samuel Alito criticised efforts to demote the liberty to a mere "second-class right".
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With the new policy changes, Facebook will demote pages and groups that share false information about vaccines.
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What's troubling is why the Mets would be inclined to demote Conforto when he should be disabled.
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The question became—do we make these large Kuiper Belt Objects planets, or do we demote Pluto?
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Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, later said the president was not planning to demote Powell.
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Tyson is staunchly in favor of the decision to demote the planet to "dwarf planet" status in 2005.
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Fans again took umbrage and viewed it within a larger drive to demote them from supporters to customers.
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The board voted to demote Neumann and replace him with the We executives Artie Minson and Sebastian Gunningham.
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Snow defended the decision to demote Halak in late December and keep the younger Berube on the roster.
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To demote a driver who finished on the podium two races ago was F1 at its most brutal.
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"I didn't ever threaten to demote him," Trump said, adding that he has the power to do so.
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Trump repeated Wednesday that he has the right to demote Powell or fire but wouldn't say whether he would.
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Imperfect or "off" hair and makeup — think too-bold lips or too-high hair — can significantly demote a look.
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It later admitted to using unscrupulous search engine optimization tactics, leading Google to temporarily demote it in search rankings.
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But with the precedent now set, the pressure on streaming services to demote artists can be expected to increase.
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Facebook is using a "motion scoring" system that detects movement inside a video to classify and demote these clips.
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Mulvaney has resisted calls to fire or demote Blankenstein from CFPB employees, Democratic lawmakers and left-leaning political groups.
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It wasn't until August of 2006 that the International Astronomical Union voted to demote Pluto to dwarf planet status.
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But the decision did spark a short-lived linguistic trend in the verb "pluto," meaning to demote or devalue.
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RANGERS DEMOTE EX-CLOSER Sam Dyson has been designated for assignment by the Texas Rangers after his latest loss.
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It is not clear if the city's Education Department will try to fire Mr. Taveras or simply demote him.
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Search Engine Land notes that simply being hit with the Upsetting-Offensive flag won't immediately demote or downrank search results.
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"I didn't ever threaten to demote him," Trump said in an interview with NBC's "Meet The Press" that broadcasted Sunday.
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Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, told reporters Tuesday that Trump is not planning to demote Powell, however.
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Short of firing Powell, Trump could decide to demote Powell but let him remain on the Fed's Board of Governors.
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Instead, most take steps to demote groups, making them hard to find, or to remove incentives for posting incendiary content.
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The Fed's meeting came after Bloomberg News reported the White House looked for a way to demote Powell earlier this year.
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An even trickier goal was to identify the stuff that Facebook wants to demote but not eliminate—like misleading clickbait crap.
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Nor is there blanket protection for private employees whose bosses fire or demote them on the basis of their sexual orientation.
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Facebook will soon demote posts that beg for likes, comments or shares in yet another step to improve the News Feed.
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The platform said it would not because it does not "take down false news," although it will demote content deemed false.
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Under CEO Satya Nadella's leadership, Microsoft shook up its internal operations to prioritize the cloud and demote its legacy business, Windows.
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In other news:Facebook is asking users to pick which news outlets are "trustworthy" — and will demote the losers in your feed.
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Example of clickbait Facebook would classify as withholding information and demote in the News Feed Example of clickbait Facebook would classify as withholding information and demote in the News Feed Finally, Facebook is splitting its previous artificial intelligence clickbait classifier into two parts: one that looks for headlines that exaggerate their article's content, and one that withholds this information.
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Another idea was to demote "hateful" comments, defined as those that sparked negative discussion, in conversation threads, some of the people said.
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Trump overturned a decision to demote Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher, who was convicted of posing with the corpse of a dead detainee.
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Fitch followed S&P's decision late Monday to also demote Odebrecht Engenharia e Construcao to B+ from BB- with a watch negative.
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Earlier this week, a report cited that President Donald Trump has looked at ways to legally demote Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
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But given Facebook's philosophical intention to demote mindless viewing and promote active conversation around videos, Instagram co-watching is a sensible direction.
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Just Tuesday, Trump said "let's see what he does" at the Fed meeting when asked if he still wants to demote Powell.
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In March, Bloomberg said gaming and social media leader Tencent Holdings Ltd planned to demote or axe about 10 percent of managers.
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Koehler, who said he has "dealt with adversity my whole life," was asked if he agreed with the decision to demote him.
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It also wants to streamline the process to fire, demote and punish VA employees who perform poorly or are guilty of misconduct.
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On November 15, Trump intervened in all three cases, granting clemency to Lorance and Golsteyn and reversing a decision to demote Gallagher.
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But he denied a report that he might demote Mr. Powell from the chairman's position on the Federal Reserve board of governors.
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So it wasn't totally surprising to find out this week that Mr. Trump had reportedly investigated whether he could demote Mr. Powell.
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Sellers continue to fear that if their products run out of stock, Amazon's ranking algorithms may demote their listings from search results.
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" It's his belief that the judges should have the final say and that the decision to demote Clifford was "not thoroughly vetted.
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"I have the right to demote him, I have the right to fire him," he said in a June interview with Fox Business.
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"Using machine learning we're able to identify and demote duplicates of articles that were rated false by fact-checkers," Lyons said to BuzzFeed.
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And he recently decided to demote the Council of Economic Advisers from his Cabinet while failing, to this point, to appoint a chairman.
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Pruitt is currently under 12 federal investigations for squandering taxpayer money, as well as abusing his power to promote or demote EPA staffers.
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Transgender people, too, have no recourse in these states when their bosses fire or demote them for presenting themselves as their preferred gender.
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Instagram will start using a similar fact-checking process as Facebook to demote posts that spread bad information, rather than remove them entirely.
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In the past year, companies have become increasingly proactive: Both Facebook and YouTube announced they would start to detect and demote harmful content.
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But he did not demote her, either, even as she failed to deliver on one of the government's key pledges, to curb immigration.
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Kudlow's comments come after Bloomberg News reported that Trump had explored in February whether he could legally demote Powell from the Fed's chairmanship.
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Our thought bubble: There's a case to be made for Facebook to use its algorithms to demote, rather than ban, low-quality content.
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Mr. Trump asked White House lawyers about how to demote Mr. Powell in February, Ms. Mohsin and Ms. Jacobs write, citing unnamed sources.
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Trump also overturned a decision to demote Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher, who was convicted of posing with the corpse of a dead detainee.
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And just like previous episodes, there are palpable regulatory and political liabilities that could demote some of the largest companies today, he added.
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The company will fact check and demote anti-vaccine content, but the posts are allowed to remain in News Feed and in groups.
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"(Cho) would say on the spot, 'demote them immediately,' 'make this manager a regular,' 'kick this person out of the department,'" Park said.
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In what is being called a first of its kind agreement, Google and Microsoft's Bing will demote U.K. search results of copyright infringing websites.
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But Trump seems unlikely to demote or fire his son-in-law, and Democrats in Congress have little power to enforce such a demand.
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The move might rattle publishers who've invested heavily in producing unique Snapchat Discover content, since the move shows Snapchat isn't afraid to demote them.
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President Donald Trump said he never threatened to demote Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, though he maintained he has the authority to do so.
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Carter's options include taking action to demote Petraeus from a four-star general back to a three-star for purposes of his retirement salary.
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This idea resonates with me, but not when it's used to demote other human endeavors that are necessary and useful in their own ways.
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Reports of "maternity harassment" (in which employers bully, demote or fire pregnant employees) have increased dramatically, because people are newly aware of its illegality.
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Later, Mr. Lloyd told those who signed the letter that the company planned to fire Mr. Pendergast and Mr. Mulholland and demote Mr. BamBrogan.
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"Even if Trump could 'demote' Powell, the FOMC could nevertheless vote to keep him on as FOMC chair, thereby neutralizing Trump's move," Hockett said.
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In early October, the firm's audit committee released a report into its investigation that prompted it to reshuffle management and demote its co-founders.
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Facebook will also demote but not remove content shared by a politician that has previously been debunked by the company's fact checkers, Clegg said.
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The decision also comes as Trump continues to criticize Powell, suggesting he might still be willing to try to demote the country's top central banker.
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So far, judges have supported web platforms' right to ban or demote users as they wish, and they've avoided holding them responsible for user posts.
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If a story is identified as false, Facebook will demote them in the news feed and will warn users who try to post those stories.
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IN TRUMPS LINE OF THINKING, HE COULD DEMOTE POWELL TO BE A BOARD GOVERNOR, BUT ISNT PLANNING TO DO SO RIGHT NOW- BLOOMBERG, CITING SOURCES
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The law is less clear on whether Trump could demote the Fed chairman and render him a regular member of the Fed board of governors.
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Facebook said it would demote posts if politicians share news that has already been debunked, but that it wouldn't actively fact-check what politicians post.
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If platforms were to demote accounts or posts that disseminated false stories, using algorithms to weed out falsehoods, the financial incentives would presumably be reduced.
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Ultimately, it made a value judgment that low-quality content farms were bad content, and deliberately changed its algorithms to demote them in search results.
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"It would be a big mistake to attempt to demote or fire," said Toomey, who met with Powell on May 8 for a 45-minute breakfast.
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If Chapo himself had any qualms about the efforts to demote from his alleged leadership position in the Sinaloa cartel, he did not express them Tuesday.
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CBS noted that Washington law states forbids an employer to "refuse to hire or promote, terminate, or demote, a woman" because of a pregnancy or childbirth.
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Heller's comment came as Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, reported on Wednesday that Trump said he believes he has the authority to demote Powell.
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Growing friction between the academy and editors culminated in the academy's saying it would remove Mr. Du, demote other longtime editors and install its own editors.
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Huawei will cut redundant roles and demote inefficient managers as it grapples with a "live-or-die moment," founder Ren Zhengfei said in an internal memo.
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A story published this week by CNBC drew attention to Mr. Buttigieg's 2015 remarks and also raised questions about his decision to demote the police chief.
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The fact that his tweets are being cited as "facts" from other nations and used to demote us creates a real negative impact on America's reputation.
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The surreal chain of events before the tournament led many to demote Spain overnight from one of the tournament's favorites to a possible group-stage casualty.
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The bill's sponsor is seeking to demote "Maryland, My Maryland" from "official" to "historic," effectively retiring it and opening the door to a new state song.
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Trying to turn Echo into a glorified Fire tablet could demote Alexa to a mere feature versus the genie in a bottle we know her as.
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The president said on Sunday on NBC's 'Meet the Press' program that he has the power to demote Powell but has not threatened to do so.
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The story surrounding the photo turned out to be false thanks to fact-checker Aos Fatos, and Facebook took action to demote the image in News Feed.
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International companies complain that their inability to directly hire Cuban employees, and if necessary demote or fire underperforming staff, hinders their ability to provide satisfactory customer service.
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WHITE SOX DEMOTE DANKS The Chicago White Sox designated the left-hander John Danks for assignment and recalled the right-hander Erik Johnson from Class AAA Charlotte.
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Suddenly, everyone's looking to you for answers — and now that you've got the power to fire or demote at will, some people may be terrified of you.
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"I think the media got it wrong the other day when they basically said you said you wanted to demote him," Bartiromo replied, ignoring Trump's schoolyard taunts.
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But the very idea of going back through history and finding white male heroes to demote in favor of black female heroes rubs some people the wrong way.
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There's no hint in the BuzzFeed report that YouTube will do anything to demote the algorithmic feed, such as by setting the curated mode as the default option.
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Buttigieg has been dogged by his decision to demote South Bend's first African American police chief, who secretly recorded white police officers he suspected were making racist remarks.
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A Facebook spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that the system begins to "demote" a story in the News Feed after a single fact-checker finds it to be false.
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A new Gizmodo report saying Facebook shelved a planned update earlier this year that could have identified fake news because it would disproportionately demote right-wing news outlets.
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These days, progressive scholars tend to demote the old guard, either to make room for excluded voices or to take the wind out of human sails in general.
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President Trump has repeatedly criticized Powell for not lowering interest rates, and asserted at various times that he could fire or demote the head of the central bank.
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On November 15, Trump intervened in all three cases, granting clemency to Lorance and Golsteyn and reversing a decision to demote Gallagher against the advice of military officials.
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President Donald Trump has long demanded public displays of gratitude and admiration from officials seeking federal help — and dealt out public humiliations to those he seeks to demote.
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Ms. Merkel's proposal, worked out with France, Spain and the Netherlands, was to maintain the system with Mr. Timmermans, but demote Mr. Weber to head of the Parliament.
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Google spokeswoman Andrea Faville said Schmidt was referring to ongoing efforts announced in April to demote search results that link to low quality, false and deliberately misleading content.
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Google has been increasing its anti-piracy efforts in recent years, banning terms from autocomplete and making changes to its search algorithms in order to demote copyright-infringing material.
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Business groups have said the rule will force employers to demote some salaried management workers to hourly positions and create more part-time jobs that do not offer benefits.
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Tillerson had sought to diminish cybersecurity's place in the diplomatic hierarchy, originally intending to demote it from its own State Department office to a subdivision of an economic office.
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Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have implemented tools and strategies to demote and flag misinformation, though they have undertaken more efforts to address foreign interference than disinformation from domestic actors.
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But it will demote these figureheads, who symbolize the material harm the Confederate ideology inflicted on so many citizens of the South, to the museums in which they belong.
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The company is reportedly considering a rebrand in the US to distance itself from China and has repeatedly insisted that it does not remove or demote politically sensitive content.
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There are federal whistle-blower protections in place designed to prevent workplace retaliation and to make it more difficult to fire, demote or harass civil servants who report wrongdoing.
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The justices, in a 6-to-2 decision, said it was unconstitutional to demote a police officer based on the mistaken assumption that he had engaged in political activity.
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But a series of leaked internal instructions, published by multiple news outlets in recent months, show TikTok moderators being told to remove or demote politically and culturally sensitive posts.
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The impending invasion of autonomous vehicles threatens to demote you from the pilot of a machine synonymous with independence to mere cargo in a commodity pod devoid of all spirit.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested he would like to demote or fire Powell for raising interest rates last year and not cutting them far or fast enough this year.
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Facebook's strategy, as outlined in a recent interview with Recode's Kara Swisher, is to demote it in the News Feed so fewer people see it, rather than remove it entirely.
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The company is also expanding its efforts in downranking fake news by using machine learning to demote foreign Pages that are spreading financially-motivated hoaxes to people in other countries.
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The Democratic chairwoman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology said she was "baffled" by Bridenstine's decision to demote Gerstenmaier without a permanent replacement to fill the role.
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The board agreed, and it described the results of that investigation last Thursday in an executive summary that accompanied its decisions to demote Mr. Starr and to fire Mr. Briles.
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In a 6-to-2 decision on Tuesday, they said it was unconstitutional to demote a police officer based on the mistaken assumption that he had engaged in political activity.
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Speaking at a CNN town hall event, Buttigieg stood by his decision to demote South Bend's first-ever African American police chief for secretly recording one of his white officers.
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The official also said the White House had no plans to demote Powell, who was nominated by Trump in late 2017 and took over as Fed chief in early 2018.
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They are difficult to prove because there is rarely a "smoking gun" that definitively shows that an adverse personnel step is taken only to jettison or demote an older worker.
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John Bolton gets what he wants: Bolton had long been rumored to want to demote the cybersecurity advisor post from one reporting to the president to one reporting to him.
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He has sought the power to set salaries, hire and fire, promote and demote, discipline, and assign the duties and responsibilities of all those who work in the schools office.
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The Trump administration's efforts to reverse the direction of federal labor policy appear to have accelerated with a proposal to demote the senior civil servants who resolve most labor cases.
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The musicians argued that such a cut in paid weeks would demote them from the ranks of year-round ensembles and make it harder to attract and retain top talent.
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WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday on NBC's 'Meet the Press' news program that he did not threaten to demote Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
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And the allegations that the prime minister pressured a respected female indigenous minister, then appeared to demote her, undercuts the image of his "values-based government," as Goldfeder called it.
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The search engine is now prominently displaying several torrent sites at the top of search results, despite its longstanding cooperation with the entertainment industry to demote links to copyright-infringing content.
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He's called him "loco" in interviews, asked if he could be fired and on Sunday he again said he has the right to demote Powell and criticized past interest rate hikes.
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Twitter has previously stated that the issue affected a wide spread of accounts, and that it arose from the design of an automated system, not an intent to demote specific accounts.
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Copernicus's heliocentric theory, for example, did not in fact threaten to demote the exalted place of humans in the universe: The Earth was previously thought to be at the center, i.e.
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The company will continue to repurpose its AI technology for proactively taking down content in violation of its policies to find and demote content that approaches the limits of those policies.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday that despite reports that President Donald Trump was looking to demote or fire him, he doesn't plan on leaving the central bank anytime soon.
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ABOUT THE CAPITALS: Coach Barry Trotz was matter of fact with his response as to why he elected to "demote" Alex Ovechkin to the third line in favor of Andre Burakovsky.
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According to data from the National Retail Federation, such an overtime expansion would cost restaurants and retailers $9.5 billion each year, and force them to demote salaried workers to hourly workers.
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For example, the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act, which Congress passed last year, empowers the VA to fire, demote, or suspend employees that break our veterans' trust.
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"It's also been disheartening to see that Facebook has chosen to demote us and could possibly delete us, a fact that is even more worrisome since they own Instagram," she said.
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As vice chairman of the Central Committee, Mr. Ri has helped Mr. Kim in monitoring the loyalty of the party elites and helping Mr. Kim decide whom to promote or demote.
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In many #MeToo stories, the power a harasser has over his target is clear and hard as a diamond: He is the boss; he can hire or fire, promote or demote.
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And the allegations that the prime minister pressured a respected female indigenous minister, then appeared to demote her, also undercut his position as a champion of gender equality and indigenous rights.
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Yet, while it would be difficult to strip a sitting justice of their current office, there may still be a way to effectively demote the current members of the Supreme Court.
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The same source suggested Trump could demote Bannon rather than fire him in order to avoid fallout from getting rid of Bannon, who is supported by many on the far right.
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Reporters asked Trump on Tuesday if he wanted to demote Powell, following a report that day that White House lawyers had explored whether they could legally strip Powell of the Fed chairmanship.
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Not only does Moore reward people who find ways to use old machines to meet new needs, he has been known to demote managers who throw away machines that could be salvaged.
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This time around, Mr. Tedeschi said he doubted the president would try to demote Mr. Powell, and was probably just trying to jawbone the central bank ahead of its meeting this week.
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Even if Mr. Trump makes no attempt to fire or demote Mr. Powell, his continuing assaults on the Fed, combined with his aggressive trade fights, have current and former policymakers on edge.
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A vote of no confidence would demote Abdul-Mahdi's Cabinet into caretaker status for a period of 30 days, in which parliament's largest political bloc would have to propose a new candidate.
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Even if Mr. Trump makes no attempt to fire or demote Mr. Powell, his continuing assaults on the Fed, combined with his aggressive trade fights, have current and former policymakers on edge.
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The dollar also took a knock after Bloomberg reported that U.S. President Donald Trump believes he has the authority to replace Fed Chair Jerome Powell and demote him to be a board governor.
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In an arguably performative gesture, Facebook employs fact-checking partners to monitor the content shared by its 2 billion global users and demote, but not necessarily remove, content they deem misleading or inaccurate.
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They gave the special commissioner the power to subpoena testimony and records, publish reports and choose what to investigate, as well as to hire and fire, promote and demote, and set staff salaries.
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The changes in effect demote Paul Manafort, the campaign chairman who had been urging the Republican presidential nominee to show more restraint, and promote pollster Kellyanne Conway to the position of campaign manager.
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"The law only prohibits an employer acting on those biases, whether in making employment decisions, for example, the decision to fire or demote an employee, or in their treatment of employees," Rivera said.
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It's unclear whether Mr. Trump is just blowing off steam, as he is wont to do when it comes to the Fed, or whether he'll continue to explore ways to demote Mr. Powell.
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You can drag any icon, including Contacts, to a different location within the Google apps menu if you want to make any app more readily accessible or demote other apps you rarely use.
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Boone has also been unwilling to demote reliever Adam Ottavino to lower-leverage situations, even after the right-hander had lost command of his signature slider and allowed crushing hits in the series.
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For those wanting to demote Edge in favor of a different browser, select the Start button, go to the Search box and enter "default app settings" — or tell Cortana to search for them.
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Trump in November told the Navy to reverse its decision to demote Gallagher, against the advice of military officials, cause controversy and ultimately forced the resignation of Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer.
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But pressed on his initial comment about Manafort, Spicer later said that he was not trying to demote the former campaign chairman but rather note he was not with the campaign at the end.
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What's murkier is whether Trump could demote Powell from his role -- a possibility that Trump refused last month to rule out, though senators said they weren't sure he had the power to do it.
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It then used this dataset to train the two AI classifiers, which can now autonomously scan the millions of links shared to Facebook each day and demote the clickbaity ones in the News Feed.
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Facebook will changed its News Feed algorithm to demote content that comes close to violating its policies prohibiting misinformation, hate speech, violence, bullying, clickbait so it's seen by fewer people even it's highly engaging.
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For example, Google was found by the European Commission to have abused its dominance by prioritizing its own comparison shopping services in Google search and tweaking its algorithms to demote competitors in search results.
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In April, Red Bull decided to demote Kvyat, sending him to the sister Toro Rosso team and replacing him with Toro Rosso's 18-year-old driver, Max Verstappen, starting at the Spanish Grand Prix.
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In 2014, Japan's supreme court ruled it illegal to demote a woman due to pregnancy following a case in which a hospital physiotherapist who had requested a lighter workload during her pregnancy was demoted.
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Many Republicans, in contrast, believe social media companies perform too much of a gatekeeper role: Fake news proliferates while tech companies demonetize, demote or deactivate controversial-yet-sincere conservative personalities like Diamond and Silk.
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Instagram subsequently announced a policy change saying it would remove graphic images of self harm and demote non-graphic self-harm images so they don't show up in searches, relevant hashtags or the explore tab.
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U.S. President Donald Trump railed against Draghi and accused him of currency manipulation, before hinting that he might look to demote Fed Chairman Jerome Powell depending on the outcome of Wednesday's Fed monetary policy meeting.
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"The President and General Secretary has managed to concentrate more power and demote more rivals than any of his predecessors managed," Mitter said, who along with each of the 10 analysts ranked Xi number one.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday on NBC's 'Meet the Press' news program that he has the power to demote Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell but has not threatened to do so.
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Admiral Green and other Navy leaders were planning to demote him and force him out of the SEALs — sending a message that such conduct had no place in one of the country's premier fighting forces.
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The official also said the White House had no plans to demote Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, adding that there were different views within the White House counsel's office regarding the president's authority to do so.
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The social network is bringing its battle against clickbait abroad, getting more precise about which link headlines it downranks in News Feed, and starting to demote individual posts instead of just web domains and Facebook Pages.
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The high court's liberal justices including Stephen Breyer seemed concerned that allowing city officials to demote Heffernan based on an inaccurate view of his political activities could chill government employees' exercise of their First Amendment rights.
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Google also has faced this year numerous accusations from President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders that its search results promote content critical of conservatives and demote right-leaning news outlets, a charge that Google denies.
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Taking direct control would give Mr. Peters the power to hire and fire, set salaries, promote and demote, discipline, and assign the duties and responsibilities of the investigators and other employees of the special commissioner's office.
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Under the new legislation, which came into force on July 13, company owners who "unfairly demote or dismiss" workers who allege harassment can be imprisoned for three years or fined up to 21 million won ($21,2212.6600).
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William Valdez, president of the association representing the senior executives, said the labor board could eliminate such positions, making the regional directors eligible for comparable jobs elsewhere in government, but could not demote them en masse.
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"The obligation to demote search results in some cases is particularly interesting as an example of the courts directly interfering with the algorithms used by big tech companies," commented Peter Church from the law firm Linklaters.
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A document published in the Royal Gazette said King Maha Vajiralongkorn had agreed to the government's request to demote Phra Dhammachayo because he had not turned himself in and had fled from the charges against him.
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And he has sparked a heated debate about whether Democrats should demote Iowa from first-in-the-nation voting status, and instead designate a state that is more reflective of the country's and the party's diversity.
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The commission is designed to operate more independently from the White House than many federal agencies, and legal experts said it would be difficult, though not impossible, for Mr. Behnam's boss to fire or demote him.
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Hence the Astros scrambling to find a veteran backstop before spring ended (they landed Erik Kratz); hence the recent decision to demote Evan Gattis so that he could move back behind the plate; and so on.
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Meanwhile, it's illegal to fire or demote workers because of a pregnancy, and employers have to give pregnant workers accommodations to help them work safely, if they would offer similar accommodations to workers with a disability.
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The change is part of a wider shuffle of Trudeau's inner circle as he tries to position Canada for a new relationship with its largest trading partner and demote underperformers in his 14-month-old Liberal government.
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Perez has received the most backlash for the overtime rule, which opponents say will force employers to either raise salaries above the proposed $47,476 threshold to avoid additional overtime costs or demote salaried workers to hourly employees.
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"For us to go back and to demote somewhat by all accounts who served our nation with great heroism and dedication and has done so much for this nation, to me, it reeks of politics," added Sen.
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A content platform giant that, in addition, continues to take a serious beasting for the terribly poor editorial decisions it makes to promote, demote or disappear entirely the information and human stories that flow across its servers.
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It is less clear whether the president could demote him, but if he tried, the Federal Open Market Committee — which sets interest rates — could still select Mr. Powell as its leader, rendering any new chair mostly irrelevant.
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Clinton writes that she asked "for steps that could be taken short of termination" and made the decision to demote him, dock his pay and move both him and the accuser to different areas of the campaign.
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The letter, originally obtained by The New York Times, was a response to the Biden campaign's request for Facebook to reject or demote ads from President Donald Trump's reelection campaign that have not been backed by evidence.
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Presumably it will cover any take-down decision, but what about the decision to demote content and limit its distribution and engagement, a tool Facebook has said it is using to deal with more and more problematic content?
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David Petraeus as the Department of Defense considers whether to demote the retired four-star general after he acknowledged in court proceedings that he provided classified material to author Paula Broadwell, with whom he had a personal relationship.
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House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller's (R-Fla.) bill, approved by a vote of 310-85033, would authorize the VA secretary to fire or demote any VA employee, except for senior executives and political appointees, for misconduct.
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YouTube said in June it was updating its hate speech policies to ban videos alleging group superiority to justify discrimination, demote "borderline" content in its recommendations and tighten standards for creators who wish to access YouTube's monetization program.
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Mr. Trump has been blaming it for creating an unfair playing field for the United States and on Tuesday suggested that he might try to demote Mr. Powell if the central bank did not move toward easing rates.
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Even if Mr. Trump were to demote Mr. Powell, the president might not succeed in removing him from his parallel position as the chairman of the central bank component that sets interest rates and controls the money supply.
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Powell's job has been complicated by the sustained attacks by Trump, who on Saturday suggested he might demote the Fed chief — a legally murky proposition, given that the Fed was structured to be independent of short-term politics.
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I value them both, but in the precedence of things, when a woman comes to me, I find myself unable to demote her aspirations because of the aspirations that someone else has for the fetus that she's carrying.
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House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller's (R-Fla.) bill, approved by a vote of 85033-116, would authorize the VA secretary to fire or demote any VA employee, except for senior executives and political appointees, for misconduct.
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Though Chief Gallagher could have been demoted to the lowest rank in the service as a result, the top admiral in the Navy decided in October to demote him by just one step, to petty officer first class.
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EU competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, deemed the company had given itself an "illegal advantage by abusing its dominance in general Internet search" by promoting its own comparison shopping service in organic search results and demote rival comparison shopping services.
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The European Commission in its June 27 decision said the world's most popular Internet search engine had abused its dominance in Europe to give prominent placements in searches to its own comparison shopping service and demote those of rivals.
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ASTROS DEMOTE GOMEZ Carlos Gomez was designated for assignment by the Houston Astros, ending a disappointing stint with the team that traded four prospects in a midseason deal last year for Gomez, a two-time All-Star center fielder.
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As part of its announcement today, the company is also expanding a program that enables its fact-checking partners to debunk videos and images containing misinformation, and it is deploying technology to automatically identify and demote duplicate versions of false stories.
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Why it matters: Facebook's decision to eventually demote — not remove — the doctored video has critics questioning whether its standards and processes are adequate enough to handle the constant attempts to spread misinformation on its platform ahead of the 2020 elections.
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Batsman Gurkeerat Singh Mann and all-rounder Rishi Dhawan, who are yet to play for India, and greenhorn Manish Pandey are contenders for the spot but Dhoni was yet to decide whether he should demote himself to take on the responsibility.
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Several reports have suggested that Trump might demote Spicer, or at least downplay the daily televised briefings that many have delighted the president at one point, but have now become unwieldy as the administration faces down one scandal after another.
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The law being prepared would demote to the rank of private the members of the Military Council of National Salvation (WRON), led by the late generals Wojciech Jaruzelski and Czeslaw Kiszczak, which ran Poland from December 1981 until July 1983.
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But it would also demote 77-year-old Miroslaw Hermaszewski, Poland's only astronaut, one of the few WRON members still alive, who was drafted onto the council in 1981 without his knowledge or consent, and discharged from it after two weeks.
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The details: The probe focuses on Google's handling of consumer data, "alleged manipulation of search results to preference websites owned by Google and to demote websites that compete with Google," and allegations that the company "unlawfully scrapes content" from its competitors.
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He experienced how a poorly designed overtime rule could end up forcing an employer to demote a manager back into an hourly position, or how a scheduling restriction might mean a restaurant can't be fully staffed during the holiday rush.
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European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who is poised to fine U.S. technology giant Google in the coming months for using its algorithm to unfairly demote rival shopping services in internet search results, said she was vigilant to such illegal practices.
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The fact that the Russian government has meddled with Yandex reads as particularly hypocritical this week, because that same government criticized Google for saying it would demote Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, two Kremlin-backed news sites, in its search rankings.
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Former US TikTok employees told the Post that they were forced to adhere to rules set by China-based moderators and managers, who instructed them to demote or remove certain content, whether the videos were specifically Chinese-related or not.
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The mere hint that Mr. Trump could fire Mr. Powell, or demote him to a Fed governor, risks further destabilizing markets by worrying investors, who are already fretting over the economic fallout from shut-down businesses, quarantined workers and curtailed activity.
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An internal investigation found McClure "had inappropriate interactions with women in the tech community," according to a blog post published Friday by Christine Tsai, 500 Startups co-founder, who said the decision to demote him was made a few months ago.
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Yet Mr. Buttigieg's handling of calls to name his McKinsey clients echoes the most politically damaging episode of his years as mayor: the city's withholding of secret recordings of police officers that led Mr. Buttigieg to demote a black police chief.
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While Facebook will not fact-check content from politicians, whether it's organic or paid advertising, it will continue to demote content and provide additional resources for previously fact-checked links, photos, and videos shared by politicians from third-party sources.
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Buttigieg has faced scrutiny for his decision to demote South Bend's first-ever African American police chief for secretly recording one of his white officers, as well as his response to the police shooting of an unarmed black man last year.
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And this week the company was scrutinized for its comments about InfoWars, a conspiracy theory-peddling website—its founder Alex Jones called the Sandy Hook mass shooting a "false flag" operation—which Facebook refuses to ban, preferring to demote individual posts and Pages.
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In December, Facebook said it will demote posts that request likes or shares, and earlier this year, Facebook said it is changing the News Feed in order to promote "meaningful posts," in an effort to show more content from friends and family.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Saturday that he had the power to remove or demote Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, renewing a long-running threat against the central bank's leader at a time when it could further roil volatile markets.
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If those turn out to be false alarms, a rate cut now would be counterproductive by signaling pessimism and making the Fed look jittery and perhaps even overly influenced by President Trump's threats to try to demote Mr. Powell over interest rate policy.
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But after a year in which the American election process became a victim of a combination of cyber- and information-warfare techniques, which caught the government unaware, it would seem to be a strange time to demote the ranking of the threat.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Huawei will spend more on production equipment this year to ensure supply continuity, cut redundant roles and demote inefficient managers as its grapples with a "live-or-die moment" in the wake of U.S. export curbs, founder Ren Zhengfei said.
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Trump criticized Draghi's remarks, noting additional ECB stimulus makes it "unfairly easier " for Europe to compete with the U.S. Stocks briefly fell from their highs after Bloomberg reported the White House was looking for legal ways to demote Powell from his spot at the Fed.
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Facebook now downranks headlines that are misleading or withhold information in many languages, shows fewer links overshared by spammers, works with outside fact checkers to demote false news, promotes iand now shows Related Articles with different angles to make people suspicious of exaggerated clickbait.
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She said the decision to demote her comes after she had supported the team "beyond the call of duty", getting sponsors and equipment and even rented a sled at the German track of Winterberg for the athletes to take to Pyeongchang and compete in.
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Yet he is openly pressuring the Fed to cut rates, and is reportedly looking for ways to demote Jay Powell, the man he himself chose to replace Yellen — declining to reappoint Yellen, according to some reports, because he didn't think she was tall enough.
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It claims the FBI's decision to fire Strzok was the result of "unrelenting pressure from President Trump and his political allies," and that it did not "abide by the final decision of Assistant Director [Candice] Will to suspend and demote, rather than fire" him.
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What they're saying: "Proposals like Medicare for All, as well as the public options, are not just impractical, they are morally wrong because they would demote American seniors to little better than second-class status," Medicare and Medicaid administrator Seema Verma told reporters yesterday.
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"It allows them to freely complain and to identify these activities, and if the employer in return retaliates against them, whether they demote them, they ding them on their bonus, they terminate their employment, they get legal protection as a result of that," Marzigliano said.
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The chilly relations were also seen as a factor in the decision to demote the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the diplomat Thorbjorn Jagland, in March 2015, though he had also drawn criticism when the 2009 Peace Prize was awarded to President Obama.
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"While the new Administration is entitled to select political appointees who share the President-Elect's views on climate change, any effort to retaliate against, undermine, demote, or marginalize civil servants on the basis of their scientific analysis would be an abuse of authority," the letter said.
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HONG KONG, Aug 20 (Reuters) - China's Huawei will spend more on production equipment this year to ensure supply continuity, cut redundant roles and demote inefficient managers as its grapples with a "live-or-die moment" in the wake of U.S. export curbs, founder Ren Zhengfei said.
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Ball State University that a person must be able to "hire, fire, or demote" employees in order to be considered a supervisor in discrimination lawsuits, thus making it is more difficult for employees to hold employers liable for the abusive behavior of co-workers on the job.
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It has to decide whether to deliberately intervene to demote low-quality content — content that Facebook unintentionally called into existence, in many cases — or whether to allow the newsfeed continue to be a free-for-all that's increasingly dominated by the 2016 equivalent of content farms.
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"The case in Alabama is chilling because it represents the real-life consequences of anti-choice 'personhood' policies, which, by design, seek to demote the fundamental rights of women, and are a stepping stone in the anti-choice movement's ultimate goal of criminalizing abortion and punishing women," she said.
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"We've adjusted our signals to help surface more authoritative pages and demote low-quality content, so that issues similar to the Holocaust denial results that we saw back in December are less likely to appear," wrote Ben Gomes, VP of engineering of Google Search, in a blog post.
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After testing Google's algorithm and conducting over 100 interviews, the Journal reported that Google has intervened in its algorithm to demote spam sites and maintain blacklists as well as make changes to its algorithm that favored the search ranking of a major advertiser, eBay, contrary to its public position.
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Years of declining trust in public institutions well before President Donald Trump took power led the EIU to demote the U.S. from a full democracy to a flawed democracy — a nation it defines as having free elections but weighed down by weak governance — for the first time in 2016.
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The U.S. president, who has said as recently as this weekend that he has the power to demote Powell, said on Twitter on Monday that the Fed "doesnt know what it is doing," adding that it "raised rates far to fast" and "blew it" given low inflation and slowing global growth.
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Facebook under pressure over Soros smear tactics Facebook's weapon amid chaos and controversy: misdirection Zuckerberg denies knowledge of Facebook's work with GOP opposition research firm Facebook will change algorithm to demote "borderline content" that almost violates policies If you didn't yet do so, go read The New York Times report.
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Caltech astronomer Mike Brown, who famously helped demote Pluto with his discoveries of other large Kuiper Belt Objects beyond its orbit, told Gizmodo that the planets in our own solar system don't require much back-and-forth debate at all, and a cursory glance at our current planets proves this.
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The U.S. president, who has said as recently as this weekend that he has the power to demote Powell, said on Twitter on Monday that the Fed "doesn't know what it is doing," adding that it "raised rates far to fast" and "blew it" given low inflation and slowing global growth.
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The U.S. president, who has said as recently as this weekend that he has the power to demote Powell, said on Twitter on Monday that the Fed "doesn't know what it is doing," adding that it "raised rates far too fast" and "blew it" given low inflation and slowing global growth.
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"We've adjusted our signals to help surface more authoritative pages and demote low-quality content, so that issues similar to the Holocaust denial results that we saw back in December are less likely to appear," writes Ben Gomes, Google's executive in charge of search, in a blog post published today.
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WeWork has a famously complex corporate structure, but lift your eyes above the newly demoted WeWork to the very apex and behold — The We. (I am not making this up.) The big picture: WeWork is not the only company to demote its flagship brand and name the holding company something silly, or worse.
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With the investigation, the state's top lawyer will examine Google's collection, use and disclosure of personal information; its "alleged misappropriation of online content from the websites of its competitors;" and its manipulation of search results to preference "websites owned by Google" and to "demote" websites that compete with Google, according to a statement.
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They're doing so by removing your name from the abstracts, by having you demote yourself to co-author (of at least one paper you would have been solely responsible for; with the other paper, it sounds as if you decided to spread credit yourself) and by preventing you from presenting either paper.
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Some people claimed he was indifferent to blacks, but it wouldn't fly: he not only hired plenty as prosecutors in the DA's office but, on war service in the navy, he had brought in four blacks as gunners on one of his ships and resolutely refused his captain's orders to demote them.
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Wired's Issie Lapowsky talked to Twitter about what might have happened to demote a handful of conservatives in search results: Twitter has been far from transparent in defining that bad behavior, but a few examples it's given publicly include accounts that haven't confirmed their email addresses or that signed up several accounts at once.
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Harbath, in her letter to the Biden campaign, explained some of the company's reasoning: If a politician seeks to share a viral hoax — like a link to an article or a video or photo, that has been previously debunked, we will demote that content, display related information from fact-checkers, and reject its inclusion in advertisements.
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She's even too weak to move uncharismatic competents, such as Jeremy Hunt, who reportedly refused to move from the health department to the business department—or indeed to demote uncharismatic incompetents such as Greg Clark, who presumably remains at business because Mrs May couldn't think of anybody to replace him when Mr Hunt refused to move.
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Moreover, President Trump was not violating the principle of "command influence" — which connotes an effort by a civilian to insert him or herself into military processes such as promotions and demotions — when he sought to reverse the Navy's decision to demote Gallagher after a military jury convicted him of posing for pictures with the corpse of an ISIS fighter.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE (Mass.) who called on President Obama to demote White for failing to crack down on Wall Street and to keep corporations from ramping up their political spending.
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At the moment, the real power in British politics currently lies with Boris Johnson, the pro-Brexit Foreign Secretary, who for the past month has been openly challenging May's authority by setting out his own red lines on what would be an acceptable deal with the EU. The Prime Minister has been unable to sack or demote him, despite his persistent undermining of her.
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Lloyd SmuckerLloyd Kenneth SmuckerRising number of GOP lawmakers criticize Trump remarks about minority Dems Lawmakers divided over how to end shutdowns for good How to keep government running when lawmakers fail to do their job MORE (R-Pa.) introduced the Department of Labor Accountability Act to give the Labor secretary the authority to reprimand, suspend, reassign, demote or fire senior department employees for misconduct or performance.
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These put a big visual banner equipped with a GIF or image background atop Explore for the first two times you visit that day before settling back into the Trends list, with the first batch coming from Disney in the U.S. These powerful new ad units demote organic content in Explore, which could make it less useful for getting a grip on what's up in the world at a glance.
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Though she also said the test is still ramping up — suggesting the impact on the viewing and amplification of conspiracy nonsense could be even greater if YouTube were to more aggressively demote this type of BS. What's very clear is the company has the power to flick algorithmic levers that determine what billions of people see — even if you don't believe that might also influence how they feel and what they believe.
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This would connect more veterans with the care they need in a timely manner, and it would take volume off of an overburdened VA. This extension of the Choice Program isn't the only good news for vets: The VA Accountability First Act would (as the name of the legislation implies) empower the VA Secretary to remove, demote, or suspend any VA employee, including Senior Executive Service employees, for substandard performance or misconduct.
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The red line represents the decline of Facebook engagement with "unreliable or dubious" sites The red line represents the decline of Facebook engagement with "unreliable or dubious" sites But at least all of Facebook's efforts around information security — including doubling its security staff from 10,000 to 20,000 workers, fact checks and using News Feed algorithm changes to demote suspicious content — are paying off: Of course, given Twitter's seeming paralysis on addressing misinformation and trolling, they're not a great benchmark for Facebook to judge by.
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HUD Secretary Ben CarsonBenjamin (Ben) Solomon CarsonCarson's affordable housing idea drawing undue flak Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules it says are too lax MORE had previously said that the appointee, Suzanne Israel Tufts, would be the new acting inspector general at Interior, which would effectively demote Mary Kendall, the current highest-ranking employee in the watchdog office.
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