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Mar- 2024 -12 March
No Florida? No Problem! Disney’s Original State Proves It Will Work with Company
The Walt Disney Company has been having a difficult time lately with Walt Disney World in the Sunshine State with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the CFTOD board, California is making good on its promise to work with the company. It's been a long few years when it comes to fixing their relationship with sunny Florida for Disney. Since the “Don't Say Gay” bill soured the previously mutual
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11 March
She Helped Save Disney From a Supreme Court Case, Now She’s In Charge of DeSantis’ Disney District
In 2021, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature crafted a wide-ranging law that would allow the state to punish social media companies for removing posts or refusing to publish posts from certain media companies or political figures, even if those posts violated the company's rules on hate speech, violent incitements, or disinformation. DeSantis used Twitter and Facebook's bans
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10 March
Why Does a Website That Included Pages on Cannibalism, Prostitution, and Drug Use Now Link to Disney?
The Walt Disney Company owns a little bit of everything. Either through its own design or through purchases, Disney owns a good portion of the media industry. In the past 20 years, mostly under current CEO Bob Iger, the Walt Disney Company went on a spending spree, buying up competitors including Pixar, Marvel Studios, Hulu, and 20th Century Fox Studios. But one of the side effects of buying so mu
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10 March
Disney Takeover Update: Billionaire Investor Promises Not To Fire Bob Iger
The future of the Walt Disney Company will be determined by a momentous shareholder vote on April 3, but the billionaire investor trying to seize control says that he has no intention of firing CEO Bob Iger. For months now, Disney shareholders have been wooed by Nelson Peltz, the co-founder of Trian Fund Management, a vastly wealthy hedge fund with a reputation for forcing its way onto the board o
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9 March
At A Critical Time, Disney Loses Its Head of Imagineering
At a crucial time for the Walt Disney Company, it is losing one of the people who is responsible for creating and expanding Disney's theme park operations. In an announcement on Linkedin and Instagram this morning, Barbara Bouza announced that she was leaving as President of Walt Disney Imagineering. Bouza had been in the job since 2021, when she replaced Bob Weis. Barbara Bouza announced she will
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9 March
Disney Walks Back Another Iger Park Expansion Announcement
This week, Disney CEO Bob Iger made waves with two long-awaited announcements about expansion plans at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. These were the plans that Disney fans had waited for, but no sooner did the words come out of Iger's mouth than Disney was already walking back one of his announcements. And now, they're taking back the second. Related:Â Sorry Disney Fans, A Day After Iger Announc
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7 March
Brand-New Experiences Coming April 5 to Disney World, Disneyland & Disneyland Paris
Disney Parks has just shared news of brand-new experiences coming to the Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort in California, and Disneyland Paris on April 5, 2024. Related: CONFIRMED: Disney World to Breathe New Life Into Now-Defunct $400 Million Attraction What's Not to Love? If you're among the tens of millions of guests who visit The Walt Disney Company's theme park resorts every year, y
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7 March
4 YEARS LATER: Reservations Finally Open at Popular Disney World Restaurant!
Nearly four years ago, Walt Disney World Resort was forced to close its gates due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The resort was closed for four months — something that never happened before. When the parks finally reopened, the Disney experience was only a shell of what it once was. Guests were required to wear face coverings at all times, could only eat and drink in designated areas, and were re
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6 March
Sorry Disney Fans, A Day After Iger Announced Disney ‘Could Build Seven New Lands,’ The Company Walks It Back
While speaking yesterday at a conference hosted by Morgan Stanley in San Francisco, Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger made waves with what appeared to be a massive announcement about the future expansion of Disney Parks. Iger said:Â We have thousands of acres of land still to develop. We could actually build seven new full lands if we wanted to around the world, including the ability to increase th
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5 March
‘No One Likes Everything Disney Does,’ Disney Accused Of Using AI Bots to Make You Believe People Like Them
After the 2016 election, X (Twitter at that time) promised that it would crack down on fake accounts, sock-puppets, and bots, and for a while, it successfully halted the spread of misinformation. However, after Elon Musk took over the platform, most of the staff in charge of stemming the flow of misinformation were fired. This allowed the flow of misinformation and bot accounts to continue unabate
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