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Spotify "regrets Neil's decision"; Young objected to COVID misinformation.

Remedies would include mandatory training of managers and requirements for managers to inform workers of their right to unionize.

Amazon’s influence campaign was widely mocked

2FA Authenticator offered real 2FA functionality, but it came with strings attached.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has a message for big tech companies, including those in the state: he’s going to take action when they violate laws.

Amazon representatives also asked workers for their “grievances” with the “express promise” to fix them if workers did not support the union, the complaint states.

Spotify says it’s reviewed every Rogan episode and none “meet the threshold for removal.”

Young: Spotify represents 60 percent of my streams.

Shifting a 68,000-person social networking company toward the theoretical metaverse has caused internal disruption and uncertainty.

The podcast host, who was joined by right-wing provocateur Jordan Peterson, suggests trans people are evidence of societal collapse.

Meta is ending its Express Wi-Fi program designed to provide low-cost internet in developing countries through partnerships with local communities..

A lawsuit over App Store abuses has been given the green light to proceed, at least on some fronts. The case, filed in California’s Superior Court in Santa Clara County last March, hails from app developer and former Pinterest engineer Kosta Eleftheriou, who claims his keyboard app FlickType was initially unfairly rejected from Apple’s App […]

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told employees Wednesday that the company is a platform for Joe Rogan, not Rogan's publisher, setting a lower bar for content moderation.

“Exclusivity does not equal endorsement.”

592 votes and 68 comments so far on Reddit

we had this final discussion about the next illustration project

if you use @gumroad you should probably be aware that its CEO @shl is at this moment searching people's email addresses in his customer database, in order to own them on twitter. i'd avoid making purchases there for privacy's sake.

oh good, he deleted it, probably because he potentially committed a crime in California and the EU, lol

CEO Daniel Ek bizarrely insists that Spotify is not the publisher of Joe Rogan's podcast.

You can still share your own address, though.

Sad to say that, without my approval, Marvel attempted to "fix" several panels of my art in issue two of Elektra: Black, White, & Blood before sending it to the printers. They're not huge changes but I really don't like my art being tampered with. pic.twitter.com/08ZnBLqBPa

The company says its policies prohibit such clauses. State treasurers aren’t convinced.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is being urged to look into Apple’s claim that it doesn’t use nondisclosure agreements to prevent its

“Under no circumstances will a Delivery Associate urinate in bottles and leave the human waste in delivery vans."

A Memoir from the Fruit Stand

An iOS 15 bug turned on recording for some users.

Hands-off around COVID misinformation, but hands-on around racial slurs

Are They Bad? Should People Do Them? Let's Find Out!

After an investigation exposed the barriers faced by transgender drivers working for Uber, city attorneys have demanded clarification.

Meta retired the system last year

The case was revived in 2020.

You may get rescued from the trash compactor, maybe. And you also might get a job, and you may, should you happen to put on the right pair of VR goggles, be able to experience a simulation of the world that you remember and see the absent friends that you miss, and so enjoy something like the life you once had, albeit all by yourself and only until the goggles are removed. That’s the product, but also that’s the threat.

An Amazon union avoidance official told unionizing workers in New York City that it's possible negotiations would begin with minimum-wage pay as a starting point.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has confirmed to TechCrunch that Jeren A. Miles, who had been a manager of global community development, is no longer employed by the company after a video went viral on YouTube, which was then reposted on Reddit and other sites, featuring him in a sting operation conducted by amateurs […]

Frances Haugen-aligned organization Whistleblower Aid has filed new complaints that accuse Meta executives of misleading investors.

Medical research fits awkwardly into the companies’ policy frameworks.

Google Drive is causing problems for some macOS users, as the ubiquitous ".DS_Store" files are being misinterpreted by the cloud storage service as documents that infringe copyright.

One of Meta's many new corporate values is "Meta, Metamates, me."

Haugen’s lawyers made the claims in two new SEC reports.

The incident underscores the fraught nature of platforms attempting to moderate content that doubles as documentation of war.

Jonathon Fahlberg says he was fired for being gay and for complaining about his supervisor's bullying and sexual advances.

The project collected over 7 million photos across 37 cities to predict fashion trends by neighborhood, raising fears of algorithmic discrimination.

The company hasn’t shared an official return to work date.

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has labelled Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature 'harmful.' An analyst said it could be ...

The reversal raises questions about Facebook’s blacklist-based content moderation, which critics say lacks nuance and context.

BAYC is dehumanizing art created by bad actors.

The sabotaged versions produce an endless string of illegible text.

COVID-19 has pushed millions of people to work from home, and a flock of companies offering software for tracking workers has swooped in to pitch their products to employers across the country.The services often sound relatively innocuous. Some vendors bill their tools as “automatic time tracking”...

Fourteen years after the launch of Harajuku Lovers, Gwen Stefani offers her unfiltered thoughts.