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Saudi Aramco Launches Olfa Animal Welfare

Olfa will focus on sheltering animals, providing veterinary care, reducing uncontrolled reproduction, and promoting community awareness of animal welfare - Aramco logo/File Photo
Olfa will focus on sheltering animals, providing veterinary care, reducing uncontrolled reproduction, and promoting community awareness of animal welfare - Aramco logo/File Photo
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Saudi Aramco Launches Olfa Animal Welfare

Olfa will focus on sheltering animals, providing veterinary care, reducing uncontrolled reproduction, and promoting community awareness of animal welfare - Aramco logo/File Photo
Olfa will focus on sheltering animals, providing veterinary care, reducing uncontrolled reproduction, and promoting community awareness of animal welfare - Aramco logo/File Photo

Saudi Aramco has launched Olfa Animal Welfare, a non-profit company dedicated to improving the lives of stray animals in Saudi Arabia, SPA reported.
According to an Aramco press release, Olfa will focus on sheltering animals, providing veterinary care, reducing uncontrolled reproduction, and promoting community awareness of animal welfare. The company aims to contribute to the Kingdom's efforts to treat animals with compassion and respect, in line with Islamic teachings.
In its initial partnership with the Eastern Region Municipality, Olfa will collaborate on various animal care initiatives. These include stabilizing animal populations, improving reporting systems for stray animals, establishing care and rehabilitation centers, and enhancing community education on responsible pet ownership.
The release said that Olfa will begin operations by launching mobile veterinary clinics in the Eastern Region to offer essential services such as examinations, vaccinations, and sterilization. The company plans to open its first animal shelter in Dammam in 2025.
Aramco Executive Vice President for Human Resources and Corporate Services Nabeel A. Al-Jama' emphasized the company's commitment to social responsibility and its desire to support community efforts in animal welfare in the Eastern Region and the Kingdom as a whole.

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Zuckerberg Says Biden Administration Pressured Meta to Censor COVID-19 Content

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg
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Zuckerberg Says Biden Administration Pressured Meta to Censor COVID-19 Content

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said senior officials in the Biden administration had pressured his social media company to censor COVID-19 content during the pandemic, adding that he would push back if this were to happen again.
In a letter dated Aug. 26, Zuckerberg told the judiciary committee of the US House of Representatives that he regretted not speaking up about this pressure earlier, as well as some decisions the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner had made around removing certain content.
"In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree," Zuckerberg wrote in the letter, which was posted by the Committee on the Judiciary on its Facebook page.
"I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret we were not more outspoken about it," he wrote. "I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't make today."
The White House and Meta did not respond to a request for comment outside US business hours.
The letter was addressed to Jim Jordan, the chairman of the committee and a Republican. In its Facebook post, the committee called the letter a "big win for free speech" and said that Zuckerberg had admitted that "Facebook censored Americans".
In the letter, Zuckerberg also said he would not make any contributions to support electoral infrastructure in this year's presidential election so as to "not play a role one way or another" in the November vote.
During the last election, which was held in 2020 during the pandemic, the billionaire contributed $400 million via the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, his philanthropy venture with his wife, to support election infrastructure, a move that drew criticism and lawsuits from some groups that said the move was partisan.