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Newsweek's World's Most Trustworthy Companies listing

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  1. brandt
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    Hmm... There are some famously untrustworthy companies in the top 10 of several categories. Looking at their methodology, apparently social media sentiment analysis was 20% of the score. I wonder...

    Hmm... There are some famously untrustworthy companies in the top 10 of several categories.

    Looking at their methodology, apparently social media sentiment analysis was 20% of the score. I wonder whether and to what extent this factor was gamed.

    The remaining factors were Investor trust (40%), employee trust (20%), and customer trust (20%). It would be very interesting to see those individually.

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  2. updawg
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    I discovered this while looking up the company that makes UpToDate. I saw that Wolters Kluwer is the #2 most trustworthy Business & Professional Services company in the world...according to...

    I discovered this while looking up the company that makes UpToDate. I saw that Wolters Kluwer is the #2 most trustworthy Business & Professional Services company in the world...according to Newsweek. Sounded reasonable because I know doctors depend heavily on it.

    Well, it turns out that #1 is Adtalem Global Education, who you may know by their name from before they changed it to escape the "controversy" of running sham for-profit universities, DeVry (although they no longer own DeVry University).

    I have no idea how the hell a for-profit education company could even be considered for this list, so I figured it might merit some discussion.

    Oh, and I understand if you are surprised to see me say something bad about POL's alma mater (for those not in the know, POL is, obviously, an abbreviation for President of Liberia), but trust me, they really are just trying to rip people off.

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