News Report from India Alleges Thomson Reuters Tap Dances with Trust
May 26, 2020
Who knows if Tecake in India is reporting “real news.” The report is interesting and thought provoking like its title: “Thomson Reuters Faces Pressure Over ICE Contracts.”
DarkCyber finds Thomson Reuters use of “trust” as a keyword interesting. My father once told me, “Anyone who tell you he or she is honest, may not be.”
The write up alleges:
A group of Thomson Reuters shareholders says the company’s technology databases are being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “track and arrest immigrants on a massive scale,” potentially causing reputational damage to the company.
The article then adds:
Jacinta Gonzalez of Mijente said in an interview with The Verge that the role of data brokers like CLEAR in the surveillance of immigrants has been unsettling.
“While Thomson Reuters has built a brand as a trusted news source, few people realize that the news operation is largely financed by the company’s role as a data broker for agencies like ICE,” Gonzalez said. She added that there are “enormous risks” associated with working with ICE, not the least of which are human rights concerns around the agency’s detention of immigrants and the separation of families trying to enter the US at its border with Mexico.
Thomson Reuters may find itself in an unusual position: Making news instead of reporting it.
Worth watching how a trusted outfit responds to shareholder and activist grousing. Money is the objective, isn’t it? Perhaps questioning trust is not in the notebook?
Stephen E Arnold, May 26, 2020
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