WhatsApp backtracks on limiting functionality for users who refuse privacy policy

The WhatsApp privacy policy saga continues as once again, the Facebook-owned messaging app has been “forced” to backtrack on their earlier statement. The new policy started rolling out last May 15 and originally, WhatsApp said that they will keep reminding users to accept the changes and if they don’t, eventually their account will be non-functional … Read more

WhatsApp backtracks on new privacy policy in India after government demand

While the rest of the world will have to deal with the new privacy policy that WhatsApp has controversially enacted, folks in India will not be “punished” for not accepting the new terms. WhatsApp says that they are complying with the letter that the Indian government has sent them and will not limit users who … Read more

Tory anger as Kwarteng backtracks on move to prevent hostile takeovers

Tory backlash over watered down curbs on hostile foreign takeovers: Backtracking is risk to security, warn MPs By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 12 April 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 12 April 2021 Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng faces a furious backlash from his own party after he moved to water down … Read more

Spain backtracks on controversial plans to make tourists wear masks

The masks can come off again! Spain backtracks on plan to make tourists wear face coverings on the beach £100 fine was envisaged in new decree ordering masks even for lone sunbathers But the plan has now been put on ice with further discussions set to take place Current rules remain for now which means … Read more

WHO backtracks on Covid Wuhan lab

The head of WHO today insisted that the theory Covid-19 emerged in a laboratory in Wuhan has not been dismissed following a controversial fact-finding mission to China.  The investigation to Wuhan, where the first cases were detected, failed to identify the source of the virus but appeared to disregard the theory that it leaked from a … Read more

WHO backtracks on Covid Wuhan lab

The head of WHO today insisted that the theory Covid-19 emerged in a laboratory in Wuhan has not been dismissed following a controversial fact-finding mission to China.  The investigation to Wuhan, where the first cases were detected, failed to identify the source of the virus but appeared to disregard the theory that it leaked from a … Read more

YouTube star Jake Paul BACKTRACKS on comments he made calling COVID a ‘hoax’

Jake Paul has backpedaled on comments he made calling the deadly COVID-19 pandemic a ‘hoax’. The YouTube star, 23, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday, that ‘COVID cases are at less than 1 percent, and I think the disease is a hoax.’  However just two days later, Paul claimed, ‘So this guy, this reporter, he … Read more

Cardi B backtracks after her wave of support for Joe Exotic is stopped in its tracks by GoFundMe

After spending her time in isolation watching Tiger King, Cardi B vowed to start a GoFundMe account for flamboyant tiger breeder Joe Exotic. But the rapper’s big Twitter talk about raising money for his defense won’t happen — because GoFundMe doesn’t open its platform to inmates convicted of violent crimes. Exotic, born Joe Maldonado-Passage, was … Read more