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The Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI) was an intelligence and propaganda agency of the United States Government, founded on July 11, 1941, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, prior to U.S. involvement in the Second World War. It was intended to overcome the lack of coordination between existing agencies which, in part, it did by ...
The COI was established in 1946 as the successor to the wartime Ministry of Information, when individual government departments resumed responsibility for information policy. [1] It worked with Whitehall departments and public bodies to produce information campaigns on issues that affected the lives of British citizens, from health and ...
An organizational conflict of interest (OCI) may exist in the same way as described above, for instance where a corporation provides two types of service to the government and these services conflict (e.g.: manufacturing parts and then participating in a selection committee comparing parts manufacturers). [68]
A COI can exist in the absence of bias, and bias regularly exists in the absence of a COI. Beliefs and desires may lead to biased editing, but they do not constitute a COI. COI emerges from an editor's roles and relationships, and the tendency to bias that we assume exists when those roles and relationships conflict.
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the country's largest labor union for federal employees, is fighting back against GOP criticisms that government employees are abusing the ...
The type of COI editing that compromises Wikipedia the most is paid editing for public relations (PR) purposes. [1] Several policies and guidelines [ a ] exist to combat conflict of interest editing, including Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline [ b ] and the Wikimedia Foundation 's paid-contribution disclosure policy.
A Place for Mom, launched in 2000, which bills itself as the biggest online referral service for senior living options, lists roughly 14,000 establishments in the U.S. and accepts payments from ...
The alternative is to wait and see how serious the federal government is about penalizing those who fail to comply. "We don't know what they're going to do," Miller said. "They sure scared everybody."