by Beth Holmes | May 16, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
A lawsuit in Kenya is going ahead against Meta Platforms, alleging unsafe working conditions in a Facebook moderation hub there. Daniel Motaung, a South African man, was relocated to Nairobi, the capitol of Kenya, to work for Facebook in 2019. He worked in a content...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 18, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media
Twitter stock is at the center of a lawsuit against Elon Musk, alleging illegal trading practices. Between the end of January and the beginning of April, billionaire Elon Musk bought 73.1 million shares of Twitter stock, amounting to a 9.1 percent stake in the social...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 11, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Wikipedia, the massive volunteer-run encyclopedia, is being threatened by the Russian government with large fines if they don’t censor information about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On March 1st, Wikipedia’s Russia site editors were sent a memo from...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 21, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
The Texas AG is suing Meta over facial recognition data being collected without consent from photos and videos. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is claiming that Meta, formerly known as Facebook Inc, has been unlawfully collecting and storing biometric data of Texas...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 14, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Spotify says that Joe Rogan’s content is inconsistent with their company values, but they won’t be ‘silencing’ him by removing his podcast from their platform. “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast has made a number of wildly inaccurate claims...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 7, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Wordle, the latest fad app game, has sold to the New York Times for an undisclosed seven-figures. Wordle was created by Josh Wardle, a software engineer from Boston. He made the game to amuse his partner Palak Shah, but was convinced to release it to the general...
