LINKDING

While Bozoma Saint John became rather famous after her memorable address at Apple’s WWDC in 2016, her most recent job transition may have been the most newsworthy. She left Apple in 2017 amid great…

The cycle continues…

Uber Technologies Inc's Chief People Officer Liane Hornsey resigned in an email to staff on Tuesday, following an investigation into how she handled allegations of racial discrimination at the ride-hailing firm.

It’s simple. If you tolerate racism, delete Uber. Proud to see these billboards go up in select cities across the country. Now is the time for all people and organizations to stand up for what is right. Also proud that Uber is a sponsor of this Friday’s March on Washington.

Facebook had to remove the message from a new feature

The ads targeted users in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, and Texas

The lawsuit argues the intern “suffered and continues to suffer damage.”

What Russia and China are trying to do, and what can be done to try to stop them.

Facebook Inc. plans to block people and publishers in Australia from sharing news, a move that pushes back against a proposed law forcing the company to pay media firms for their articles.

The company has a sophisticated and secret program that is surveilling dozens of private Facebook groups set up by workers, internal documents and reports show.

malicious code ...now notarized!? #2020

Full disclosure: Nathalie Lawhead and I are friendly acquaintances and mutuals on twitter. Thanks to all who gave their input and help on this article. I want this piece to act as a springboard for…

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday said Apple must pay over 12,000 retail workers in California for the time spent waiting for...

The new privacy rule could upend the mobile ad market.

The letter calls for a ban on “event pages that encourage people to bring weapons to events”

Facebook is researching its role in elections.

The boys are away so today we have a special episode featuring Mary Kish from Twitch, Riana from What's Good Games, and Merrit K from Fanbyte! We discuss games like Tell Me Why, Paradise Killer, and the Last Campfire. Also, listen close for amazing first date ideas as well as our terrible nick names!

A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew about specific examples of global political manipulation — and failed to act.

A former employee says the company is broken when it comes to preventing political manipulation.

The move comes after Motherboard revealed an Amazon internal spying unit called the Advocacy Operations Social Listening Team.

The company has escaped criminal charges and its self-driving program is still in operation.

Multiple sources inside Spotify described an all-hands meeting in which Spotify CEO Daniel Ek discussed the company’s handling of the controversial podcaster.

For just over an hour, a member of the U.S. Navy’s esports team played with ‘close friends’ who used ‘Nagasaki’, ‘Japan 1945’, and ‘Gamer Word’ as their screennames.

The sudden invocation of the Holocaust on Twitch highlights all the ways the Pentagon had no idea what it was getting into on Twitch.

The company, citing a human rights report it commissioned, said it was moving to prevent further abuses of its platform in Myanmar. Critics said they were unconvinced.

Teespring stopped printing t-shirts with the word “antifa” on them but never stopped printing far right slogans.

Twitter’s preview showed the white faces more often

European regulators are cracking down on Facebook's ability to transfer data across the Atlantic. Now the tech giant is threatening to pull its services from more than 400 million European users.

Zuckerberg is cracking down on his employees' discussions of political and social issues at work, including Black Lives Matter.

"I don't think that the service is a right-wing echo chamber," Zuckerberg said in an interview with Axios. Facebook's own data shows otherwise.

Facebook said the graphic video didn't violate its Community Standards and waited hours to remove it. By then, it was too late.

A faculty member has been asking how to stop Zoom from removing his head when he uses a virtual background. We suggested the usual plain background, good lighting etc, but it didn't work. I was in a meeting with him today when I realized why it was happening.

A former contracted content moderator at YouTube is bringing a class action lawsuit against the platform, claiming the job gave her severe PTSD, anxiety and depression.

Project Aria will send scores of Facebook workers into the world to record everything around them.

Why did thousands of people trample one another in an attempt to buy a $50 iBook in 2005? In many ways, it’s a story about a lack of tech access that’s still being told.

“If Facebook won’t change their M.O., then a judge needs to tell them to enforce their own standards.”

The Verge obtained leaked audio of internal meetings

Both the Apple Watch Series 6 and Fitbit Sense have new blood-oxygen apps. They’re mostly useless.

Mark Zuckerberg has a new post on Workplace, Facebook’s internal social network/forum, about new stricter rules for discussions. More moderation. A curated Trending section. No more using a profile pic to support causes. Tighter defintion of what is “respectful communication."

Facebook on Thursday outlined its new set of rules for employee communications within Workplace, the company's internal social network.

A day after the officer who shot Breonna Taylor wasn’t indicted, Facebook employees face disciplinary action if they acknowledge her in a profile pic. Workers of color are LIVID over the new no political profile policy — especially cause Zuck said it was about protecting them.

One activist called Facebook “a roiling cauldron of lies, violence and danger.”

“It’s just very frustrating ... to be developing for a platform that tries to kill you.”

Activist Spotify staffers are considering a strike if their demands for direct editorial oversight over The Joe Rogan Experience aren't met.

A group of Spotify staffers are now reportedly pushing to introduce direct editing oversight over The Joe Rogan Experience.

A company executive responds to claims of bias.

It’s scummy that Uber made me ‘confirm’ this before riding? What?

Oh, also this

Uber and Lyft’s business model uniquely harms workers of color, according to a legal document filed to the California Court of Appeals by a coalition of advocacy groups.

The Yes on Proposition 22 gave $2 million to the California Republican Party last Friday.