Press Digest: Wall Street Journal - Oct. 22
22/10/2021 06:45
Oct 22 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the
Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and
does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Facebook Inc FB.O is struggling to detect and deal with
users' creating multiple accounts on its flagship platform,
according to internal documents that raise new questions about
how the social-media giant measures its audience. https://on.wsj.com/3C547lp
- Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell imposed sweeping
personal-investing restrictions on senior officials in a bid to
address a stock-trading controversy that prompted the
resignation of two reserve bank presidents and hurt his
prospects of being reappointed to lead the central bank next
year. https://on.wsj.com/3G78CON
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director
Rochelle Walensky recommended Covid-19 booster shots from
Moderna Inc MRNA.O and Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N and backed
mixing vaccines with a different booster dose. https://on.wsj.com/3vxybU0
- The House voted Thursday to hold former Trump strategist
Steve Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to
comply with a subpoena from the select committee investigating
the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. https://on.wsj.com/3Ca9CPC
- Financial-technology startup Plaid Inc 4165.T is making
a move into the payments business, less than a year after an
antitrust lawsuit scuttled its high-price sale to Visa Inc
V.N . https://on.wsj.com/3GakOhD
(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
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