Woke Capitalism

Elon Musk recently appointed Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter, but at a conference in April, Yaccarino grilled Musk on his tweets and content moderation policies on Twitter, providing insight into how she sees the platform. Yaccarino stated that advertisers should have a greater hand in shaping the platform’s policies, explaining: “Product development, ad safety, content moderation — that’s what the influence is.”

Woke corporation Airbnb shares fell by 12 percent in Wednesday morning trading even though the company reported first-quarter earnings that exceeded analyst expectations for both revenue and earnings per share (EPS). The decline in share price followed Airbnb’s weaker-than-expected guidance and a cautious outlook for Q2 2023.

Voya Investment Management hosted a scholarship and internship program that excluded white students from participation on the basis of their race.

Advertising industry leaders from companies like McDonald’s and Colgate-Palmolive have expressed apprehension over Elon Musk and Twitter. Commenting on Musk’s upcoming speech to an influential group of advertisers, one woke McDonald’s executive said, “For many communities, his willingness to leverage success and personal financial resources to further an agenda under the guise of freedom of speech is perpetuating racism resulting [in] direct threats to their communities and a potential for brand safety compromise we should all be concerned about.”

Big Blue Banking and the Democrats plan to stay woke. If and when they go broke, they will bail themselves out with other people’s money. That’s how the rich stay rich and get richer.

Target and Starbucks fund an organization that hosts an overnight camp for children as young as six years old who identify as transgender.

Hilton, an international hospitality company based in Tysons Corner, Virginia, is teaming up with an LGBTQ activist to host “Queer Formals” for minors through an organization called “Minus18.” 

The ongoing controversy over the decision by Puffin, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, to censor new editions of Roald Dahl books has taken another dystopian twist, with owners of Roald Dahl ebooks reporting that their copies have been automatically updated to the new, woke versions.

Republican politicians are acting in ways that suggest they are not enthralled to political donations from financial companies and other big corporations.

Popular rental service Airbnb claims it made a “mistake” in banning conservative YouTuber Lauren Southern’s parents from using its service. The company reversed the ban after Southern and many other conservatives slammed notoriously woke Airbnb on social media.

Paul Fitzpatrick, president of 1792 Exchange, said on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that his organization tracks “woke capitalism” to help businesses, individuals, and organizations navigate political risks with a database composed of “corporate bias ratings” of evaluated companies.

The 1792 exchange, a new nonprofit seeking to counter the rise of “woke capitalism” and the leftist trend of Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance (ESG), the umbrella strategy for pushing progressive agendas into corporate boardrooms, has compiled an index of over 1,000 companies to evaluate their political biases.

The Sims, a video game produced by Electronic Arts that is particularly popular amongst young women, has announced a new update to the game which allows users the option to make their characters confused about their sex, including giving young female characters double mastectomy scars and chest binders. Popular commentator Libs of TikTok remarked, “They’re teaching young healthy girls that it’s ok to chop off their breasts.”

Troy University in Troy, Alabama, is offering a business school program that trains students to combat woke capitalism in the workplace. The new program has received rave reviews for including lectures on topics such as how DEI programs divide Americans.

PayPal, the woke payment processor that blacklists those it disagrees with politically, has announced plans to lay off approximately 2,000 employees.

A former Google executive claims in a lawsuit that he was fired for turning down a higher-ranking female executive’s unwanted advances. According to the lawsuit, a Google HR representative “openly admitted … that if the complaint was ‘in reverse’ — a female accusing a white male of harassment — the complaint would certainly be escalated.”

As Republicans gear up for hearings in Congress to investigate how Democrats colluded with AT&T to censor One America News Network (OAN) from DirecTV, attention may also fall on private equity fund TPG Capital, which owns a significant portion of DirecTV and has demonstrated left-wing bias in the past.

A woke video game company recently fired a female employee after a Twitter campaign started by a transgender activist who accused her of being “transphobic.” One of the woman’s “transphobic” actions was following Libs of TikTok and other conservative accounts on social media.

General Motors (GM) donated to an LGBT organization that supplies kindergarten and elementary classrooms with pro-transgender children’s books.

More than a third of Twitter’s top 100 marketers have not advertised on Elon Musk’s platform in the past two weeks, according to a recent analysis by the Washington Post.

General Mills and Audi recently stated that they are pausing advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform. Musk responded to advertisers in general stopping their ad buys, saying the company has a “massive drop in revenue,” adding that he feels the drop is “Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.”

Missouri is the latest state to divest from BlackRock, citing the multinational financial firm’s commitment to a “woke political agenda.”

Tony Blevins, VP of procurement at smartphone giant Apple, has been forced out of the company following controversy over a viral TikTok video featuring the executive joking about his affluent lifestyle.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is threatening to pull his software company’s operations out of Republican-run states if their policies do not align with his liberal worldview, specifically in regard to abortion policy. 

The Free Speech Union has vowed to secure a change in the law after it, its founder Toby Young, and the Daily Sceptic website were all deplatformed by PayPal.

The Kroger Company, a supermarket giant, published an “allyship guide” that told employees to use “inclusive language,” celebrate transgender holidays, and even support an organization that bails violent criminals out of prison.

BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink has been referred to as the “architect of woke capitalism.”

NatWest, a private bank bailed out by the taxpayer in 2008, has announced it will start blowing money funding transgender hormone therapy and other treatments for its staff.

The anti-woke asset management firm Strive is taking on the likes of BlackRock to “depoliticize corporate America” so consumers can embrace commerce without compromising their values, Strive’s Head of Corporate Governance Justin Danhof says.

A recent report states that 15 different women have accused Apple HR of mishandling serious sexual misconduct allegations and more than half claim that the firm retaliated against them for filing the complaints.

Multi-billion-pound multinationals were out in force at a huge Pride parade in London on Saturday, with Coca-Cola sending drag queens and others in company branding to drum up support.

Amazon has restricted items and search results related to LGBT issues on its website in the United Arab Emirates, despite the woke e-commerce giant celebrating “Pride Month” in the western world.

Matthew Peterson, the general partner of New Founding and the president of American Firebrand PAC, joined Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM with host Matthew Boyle to discuss how to fight back against woke corporations.

Kellogg’s did real damage to its brands when it decided to take sides in American politics by boycotting Breitbart.

A class action lawsuit brought against Google by over 15,000 current and former female employees of the company has been settled. Google must now pay $118 million to the 15,500 plaintiffs including current and former female employees.

China’s Alibaba is developing an “individual carbon footprint tracker”, the firm’s president said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.