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PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Phoebe Prince ? The documents  filed in connection with charges against six South Hadley High School students  raise new questions about how much school officials knew about the bullying. They also provide a glimpse into the final  tortured hours of Phoebe Prince's life shortly before the 15-year-old hanged herself at home Jan. 14.
 On Jan. 7  according to the documents  Prince went to a school administrator after learning that one of the defendants  Flannery Mullins  had told fellow students that she was going to "beat Phoebe up" and that she "needed to watch out at break after second block."
 The documents do not reveal the official to whom Prince spoke or provide details of the conversation.
 A witness who was interviewed by investigators said Prince had gone to administrators because she was "scared and wanted to go home." After the meeting  the witness said Prince returned to class  and said that no action was going to be taken and that "she was still going to get beat up."
 In a recent interview  Superintendent Gus Sayer said school administrators were not aware of the bullying until Jan. 7  a week before Prince committed suicide. On that day  two teachers reported separate bullying incidents to the principal  Sayer said.
 Prosecutors said Prince endured months of verbal assaults and threats after she briefly dated a popular boy. She was harassed mostly in school  but also on Facebook and through other electronic forms.
 The documents detail in length the final 24 hours of the girl's life. On Jan. 13  Prince told a confidant that school "has been close to intolerable lately."
 On the day of her death  according to the documents  Prince was in the school library at the same time as three of the charged teens -- Sean Mulveyhill  Kayla Narey and Ashley Longe. Witnesses told investigators that Prince was subjected to crude sexual taunts from Longe  including "whore" and "Irish slut."
 At the end of the school day Jan. 14  witnesses said Prince was again subjected to verbal abuse as she walked out of the building. After Prince had left school grounds  a witness said Longe  as she rode by in a friend's car  threw an empty beverage can at Prince and started laughing.
 According to the documents  Prince was crying as she walked home. Investigators said she exchanged several text messages with a friend about two hours before her death  in which she discussed the verbal abuse she had received that day and the ongoing taunts.
 Later in the day  Prince's body was found hanging in a rear stairwell of her family's apartment.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Kobe Steel ? TOKYO (Reuters) -  Kobe Steel Ltd  admitted on Tuesday  its  data fraud has been going on nearly five decades and also revealed new cases of cheating  highlighting the challenges facing the 112-year-old company mired in compliance failures and malfeasance.
Kobe Steel  which supplies steel parts to manufacturers of cars  planes and trains around the world  admitted last year to supplying products with falsified specifications to about 500 customers  throwing global supply chains into turmoil.
 Kobe Steel  also announced the resignation of Executive Vice President Akira Kaneko and temporary pay cuts for up to 80 percent of all internal directors and executive officers.
 Kobe Steel  President and CEO Hiroya Kawasaki attends a news conference in Tokyo  Japan March 6  2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
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Kobe Steel  said the data cheating started at least as early as the 1970s  based on testimony from multiple sources interviewed by the external investigation team.
 The company  mapped out various preventive measures  including setting up an external committee to oversee quality issues  but those familiar with  the company  say  its  problems are entrenched.
 Kobe Steel  has had a series of scandals in the last dozen years  including taking part in bid-rigging for a bridge project in 2005  failing to report income to tax authorities in 2008  2011 and 2013  and falsifying emissions data in 2006. Illegal political funding to candidates in local elections in 2009 also prompted the resignations of the then CEO and chairman.
The data fraud scandal  though  so far appears to have left  Kobe Steelâs  finances unscathed. In February   the company  reinstated a forecast for  its  first annual profit in three years for the year ending March 31.
But  the company  is also undergoing a U.S. Justice Department probe  meaning  it  still faces legal and financial risk. A Japanese government-sanctioned seal of quality has been revoked on some of its product as well.
âThere is a pending risk for  Kobe Steel  as customers at home or abroad may cancel their contracts and take legal actions  and the U.S. Justice Department may seek a penalty â said Makiko Yoshimura  director at S&P Global Rating Japan.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rachel Botsman ? In her witty new book Australian technology author and TED celebrity Rachel Botsman tells us why it did not work. Who Can You Trust? How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Could Drive Us Apart might be a bit too perky for some but it reveals some deep truths.
With industrial power collapsed  social media’s “distributed trust” began its run to win popular trust.  Botsman  even claims to have predicted the next stage of evolution  anticipating Airbnb  Zipcar and Uber in  her  previous book. At first the masses took to social technology like ducks to water but few thought through the costs of power flowing from institutional experts to less sophisticated individuals. It turned out that these social media had institutions too  if less hierarchical  but still leading to someone at the top with a great degree of control over the people’s “open” media below them.
 Botsman  says  she  would not have written  her  book if  she  did not think distributed networks could solve many problems and develop popular trust  but the many examples presented in  her  book demonstrate that “distributed trust always seem to lead us back to centralized power ” with Facebook  Amazon  and Alibaba leading the list.
 Her  thesis is that distributed systems need to know who is telling the truth in order to be social but their media technology develop so fast and anonymously it becomes difficult to trace accountability. Perhaps 75 percent of automobiles will self-drive by 2040. How can sufficient trust develop in such a major activity in such a short time? Blockchains like Bitcoin may replace governmental currency and financial transactions. Robots threaten to take everyone’s job. The most famous bot was HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey and we all know what happened then. Some “trust pause” will certainly be necessary for such major social transitions.
Take the number one social media technology guy  Mark Zuckerberg  who created Facebook to be an open forum for public discussion. Yet  after social media was accused of biasing the presidential election even  he  had to reluctantly concede (the second time) that there was an abundance of fake news on  his  site  which  he  then promised to fix in a socially positive way.  His  solution was to balance alternative views by adding “additional perspectives ” including noting after doubtful material that fact checkers disputed the claims in the original published news. But who would do the “fact checking”?
 Botsman  does not mention  it  but Google’s top scientist Ray Kurzweil had bigger ideas. Computers would be thinking for themselves by 2014 with humans becoming immortal soon after. Humans would become immortal under Kurzweil’s Calico project to replicate nature’s control of mitochondrial DNA by moving toxic bacteria into the cell nucleus to stop aging. With age under control people would live forever. At the same time  artificial intelligence would develop computers that learn by themselves. Ageless individuals could then link an AI machine to their brain so they could give accurate and immediate responses to every kind of question. But if this takes place instantly  is that a person still a person or a computer?
China’s Social Credit System would produce a “social credit score” for every Chinese citizen and introduce national networks of shame to ameliorate and control unruly segments of the population. This system should have a bullish future in much of the world now under authoritarian governments.  Botsman  quips: “Today China  tomorrow a place near you.”
Not a place in the U.S. with its democratic government protecting privacy  right? One big obstacle to such protection mentioned by  Botsman  is that government regulation simply cannot keep up with the explosive rate of change in private social media technology. There is that free speech and press stuff but Congress just approved another renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act seventeen years after 9/11 and few doubt that some similar future horrendous terrorist act would make the government’s surveillance even more intrusive.
 Botsman ’s general solution to increase social trust is to rely upon reputation  which is sound  but extremely difficult to evaluate as  her  book proves.
How do we even know if  Botsman  isn’t a bot already  predicting China for us all?

SOLUTION:
Positive