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McDonald’s faces boycott over DEI rollback: Who’s protesting and when

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内容摘要:It took four years of tinkering to come up with a design that worked - a small clay cabinet with a water talk on the top and storage shelves below.

It took four years of tinkering to come up with a design that worked - a small clay cabinet with a water talk on the top and storage shelves below.

Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world but, by the admission of some of its own volunteer editors, it suffers from a persistent problem - terrible pictures, particularly of celebrities.It is so full of notable people with very old or unflattering photographs that there are even Instagram accounts dedicated to

McDonald’s faces boycott over DEI rollback: Who’s protesting and when

The problem arises because professional photographers who attend, for example, film premieres tend to work for big agencies: their work is copyrighted and you usually need to pay to reproduce it.Wikipedia - which is largely sustained by volunteers - does not have a budget for that.Some enthusiasts launched

McDonald’s faces boycott over DEI rollback: Who’s protesting and when

, a project to recruit a group of volunteer photographers around the world and get them accreditation to attend film festivals, conferences and other events."Wikipedia has for the longest time had missing or poor quality photos of people," said Kevin Payravi, one of the project's founders.

McDonald’s faces boycott over DEI rollback: Who’s protesting and when

"This issue has always been in the back of our minds as Wikipedia editors."

He spoke to the BBC from Austin, Texas where he and fellow founder Jennifer 8. Lee were covering the SXSW festival, complete with their own photo booth for set-up portraits.Its policy adviser, Bushra Khalidi, also questioned how vulnerable people, such as the elderly, would be able to reach these sites, which are located some distance away from some population centres.

When the UN had been delivering aid before Israel's humanitarian blockade, there were 400 distribution points spread across Gaza. Under the present GHF distribution system there currently are four known sites."By and large, it's designed to dramatically increase the concentration of the population by having the only sources of food remaining in a very small number of places," said Chris Newton, a senior analyst at the Brussels-based think tank Crisis Group.

"You either follow all their rules and probably survive in a small radius around these sites or you are very unlikely to survive."The presence of armed security and Israeli soldiers at or near the distribution sites has also alarmed experts, who said it undermined faith in aid operations.

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