Blackrock came out on Earth Day with expectations that sustainability reporting will be down thanks to COVID, and said "we're cool with that!" Netflix subscribers jump as people hide inside with the Tiger King as rumors of its Disney+ demise were greatly exaggerated! Facebook takes panictunity around antitrust regulators with a bet in India! Finally, the Trump administration is considering shielding corporations from lawsuits related to COVID-19 in the ultimate coronavirus cloud cover move!

China seems to have snuck out of the business news with the "supply chain" still mostly closed, but it's baaaaack, and it brought some extra US xenophobia! Also, Facebook seems like a total policy mess - but is it really a super calculated deflection? Amazon's facing down a worker uprising with employee loyalty ratings! Could stranded oil be a climate activist purchase? And finally, Morningstar buys ESG provider Sustainalytics, completing the big ESG coup by financially fixated markets!

Walmart is adding 50k employees while Disney sheds 100k. But at what point does the Business Roundtable just step in and say "you guys should just swap!" Also, Facebook can't get its normal policies right even in a pandemic. But at least they have time to drop a gaming app...

Big Two Pant Legs for the Week: COVID-19 is giving us a live case study in diversity and leadership. Turns out - women are pretty good at it! Also, the unintentional upsides of COVID-19 include clean air, shop local, and no one in the airplane middle seats. But will it last?

Facebook notifies you of facts related to COVID-19, is still working on notifying of facts about Facebook! Hair dye is flying off the shelves! Goldman smells the end of coronavirus! McDonald's is not OK with discriminating against black people - moderately OK with sexual discrimination! Unilever says coronavirus is "not good news"! Google's Eric Schmidt wants us to be appreciative of our tech overlords! And finally, coronavirus good news: no more middle seats, we can breath, and turns out nature is OK!

Google is cutting back on training contractors, but there's a bigger question: is big tech's reliance on contractors a vestigial organ of VC-back growth-at-all-cost mentalities? Also, Amazon again in the news for firing and/or antagonizing warehouse workers. Plus, Facebook gets Politifact-ed, BlackRock rebrands its ESG from "positive societal impact" to capitalist mumbo-jumbo, and women leaders rule on coronavirus.

Amazon in the news again... and again... and again.... This time it's firing workers for criticizing the warehouses while offering 175,000 jobs to... work in the warehouses. Also, working from home is the new working from work. Plus, some CEOs want you to call them. Finally, will fake public Walmart get a stakeholder board? (Answer: no).

Disney brings back Bob Iger - but is the big story a messiah complex and poor succession planning? The airlines don't like their bailouts because they could be loans and could force layoffs - but wouldn't bankruptcy have done the same thing? Who did we actually bail out? Finally, pork shortages are causing waves of fear of a not enough meat in the US - but it also solves two problems: the pivot to plant-based meat, and wouldn't we need less toilet paper?

Google pays newspapers for content. Amazon still thinks rubber chickens are essential, not PTO. Bezos tours a factory like a post-hurricane site. Morgan Stanley ask shareholders to choose between rights and, you know, COVID-19. It was a bad week for Zoom, but Damion has a fix. Boeing has MORE SOFTWARE ERRORS. Plus, Yelp has more than 2,000 employees??

The Pope weighs in on women deacons and coronavirus climate change. Twitter's Dorsey donates more than a quarter of his wealth to the virus fight. Mark Zuckerberg wants to read your messages to your spouse. Amazon skips PTO for "disinfectant fogs". And finally, who's using COVID-19 better as cloud cover from something crappy?