"When we learned about this, we promptly contacted the hotel’s owner and required them to take swift action to address this." "We are deeply concerned by the situation," said a statement relayed by spokesman Stephen Snart. Hyatt said it takes the report seriously.
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The gel was also visible on the TV remote, the report said. More: Hotels are rolling out tech to stem the coronavirus spreadĪt the Hyatt Place Times Square, the markings appeared on bed sheets and pillowcases, which "Inside Edition" said shows the linens were not changed between stays. They wielded a UV light to see if it would reveal the otherwise invisible tags on the items that had been marked by the show the previous day. A clear, washable gel was applied to other surfaces that would commonly be touched by hotel guests, such as the TV remote control, thermostat and desktop.Īfter checking out, producers checked back in to the same rooms the following day under different names, the show said. The producer mussed up the bed and room to make it appear a guest had spent the night. "Inside Edition" said its producers checked into the hotels and spotted pillows, bed sheets and bath towels with a harmless, washable spray that becomes visible under ultraviolet light.
More: 3 nights, 3 hotels: What it's really like to stay in a hotel during the coronavirus pandemic A third hotel, the Trump International overlooking Central Park did better, but wasn't perfect.
The syndicated news show "Inside Edition" aired a report Monday that alleges two of the three hotels it checked in New York didn't thoroughly clean rooms or change bed linens between visits. It identified them as the Hyatt Place Times Square and the Hampton Inn Times Square Central. Major hotel chains have announced special cleaning protocols in light of the coronavirus, but a television news show investigation is raising questions about whether they are being followed. “We’re currently seeing it play out in the extremism and violent rhetoric some are using in the recent protests at Victorian Parliament.Watch Video: Coronavirus: Hotel industry's new cleaning guidelines “Online misinformation has consequences,” he told Guardian Australia. Watts questioned how many more times the UAP and Kelly would need to violate Google’s policies before being “kicked off for good”. Yorke said Google had also taken action with regard to its strikes policy, but did not specify whether the UAP had any strikes left before it would be banned from YouTube. In a letter sent to Watts on 3 November, Google’s head of public policy and government affairs, Samantha Yorke, identified six videos Google had removed in response, including a video on Kelly’s private members’ bill banning vaccination passports, a video entitled “Rowan Dean was right on ivermectin” and a 10 May interview with then-Sky News host Alan Jones, in which Kelly questioned the efficacy of Covid vaccines. The move came after Google removed a number of videos in response to Labor providing a list of videos they argued violated Google policy on misinformation.
Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning According to Google’s transparency report, 12 of the last 16 ads UAP has paid for – or nearly half of the 25 ads since Kelly became leader – have been pulled by YouTube for violating the company’s ad policy. Google appears to now be closely scrutinising advertising from the United Australia party. “The question is: why is the member for Hughes and the UAP’s YouTube page still operating after repeatedly violating YouTube’s policies, let alone spending millions of dollars promoting medical misinformation during a pandemic? Given the member for Hughes’s record of spreading misinformation and his intent to match the 2019 election spend of the UAP, the potential for harm is obvious and Google must act in a transparent and proactive way.” In parliament in October, Watts noted Kelly himself had said he had received one strike, and questioned why the UAP was still allowed on the platform.
In October Labor’s shadow assistant minister for communications, Tim Watts, wrote to Google asking why the UAP was allowed to remain on YouTube given that some videos had already been removed for allegedly violating its policy. Labor has previously raised concerns that the UAP was using its platform to undermine confidence in Australia’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, citing videos in which Kelly questioned the safety of Covid vaccines or promoted the drug ivermectin. It is not clear from the report what the removed videos contained or which of Google’s policies they are alleged to have violated.
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