How the Court of Public Opinion Shifted on the Infamous McDonald’s Coffee Lawsuit
Stella Liebeck’s story has gone from a punchline to a cautionary tale on corporate disinformation.
Stella Liebeck’s story has gone from a punchline to a cautionary tale on corporate disinformation.
McDonald’s and others have looked into using call centers instead of in-person cashiers.
An image of a McDonald’s banner purportedly advertising an $18 an hour wage with a suspicious asterisk went viral on Twitter, then Facebook.
A screenshot of a tweet by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich claiming taxpayers subsidized $153 billion of corporate profits appeared on Imgur amid a wider discussion around corporate treatment of employees.
Social media posts and images of signs about how no one wants to work are omnipresent, but low-wage jobs are not “competing with unemployment benefits.”
After Stacy Talbert shared a crying breakdown about hostility towards cops at a Georgia McDonald’s to Facebook Live, rumors spread that she was in fact not even in law enforcement.
An old image of three men ‘crucified’ outside a McDonald’s spread on Facebook as a purported COVID-19 anti-lockdown protest.
Major newspapers criticized H.R. 6201 for allowing Walmart to be exempt from a sick leave requirement.
A meme popular across social platforms claimed that the fast food chain had lost its European Union Big Mac trademark, only to lose out to a rival corporation.