Letter: European regulator Thierry Breton urges Mark Zuckerberg to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation from Meta's platforms during the Israel-Hamas war
and on tackling disinformation in elections in the EU ⤵️ [image] Jakub Simek / @jakubsimek : @ThierryBreton @Meta I think the EU has bigger problems to worry about than lecturing tech companies. How m...
Profile of Ifeoma Ozoma as she launches The Tech Worker Handbook, an online guide for tech workplace complaints, and Silenced No More Act becomes California law
- Ifeoma Ozoma, a former employee at Pinterest and Google, just published a resource guide for tech workers who are considering … Tweets: @ashleygjovik , @jenn_elias , @joshbbornstein , @ifeomaozoma ,...
Gov. Newsom signs Silenced No More Act, which ex-Pinterest employee Ifeoma Ozoma helped draft, to protect CA workers who call out discrimination despite NDAs
if they so wish—when they are a victim of any type of harassment or discrimination in the workplace. #EmpowerSurvivors Release: https://sd20.senate.ca.gov/... https://twitter.com/... Ifeoma Ozoma / @i...
Big tech whistleblowers describe the severe emotional toll that standing up to gigantic companies takes and how it sets them on the path to advocacy
Last summer, just before she published a viral Twitter thread about the discrimination she said she faced at Pinterest … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @folletto , @protocol , @joyehoward , @runasand , @tri...
Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections by directing the Commerce Department to press the FCC to roll back portions of Section 230
For a Price Andrew Wyrich / The Daily Dot : Trump-Twitter drama causes Cameron Winklevoss to get relentlessly owned Facebook: John McCarthy : President Donald J. Trump is ramping up his attacks agains...
Zuckerberg: Facebook could get to about half of staff working remotely permanently in 5-10 years and will be the “most forward-leaning company on remote work”
don't shoot the messenger. Fili-Perf / @fabrantes : This is big coming from Facebook, it has never been a remote friendly company. I'm loving this trend of increased decentralization. https://twitter....
OpenAI announces Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles
complete with lyrics Jordan Pearson / VICE : This Software Can Make Kanye West Rap Eminem's ‘Lose Yourself’ Raf Noboa y Rivera / The Miscellanies : Hope will give us power Tweets: @openai : Introducin...
Social Science One and Facebook say they are now making a dataset with ~38M URLs available to academic researchers, two years after announcing the initiative
and acted with such hesitation — before releasing a massive batch of data. Beats the alternative. https://twitter.com/... Gary King / @kinggary : Today, we released a privacy-protective Facebook datas...
Internal Pentagon memo warns service members against using consumer DNA testing kits from 23andMe and others, citing security risks
An exclusive look at the White House kitchen Mike Glenn / Washington Times : Pentagon warns troops against using at-home DNA kits Rhonda Vance / Mash Viral : DoD warns troops against using 23andMe and...
A group of four former Google employees who say they were fired for organizing are filing unfair labor practice charges against the company
Welcome to your next installment of Metal Machine Music. James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Fired workers accuse Google of unfair labor practices Allison Levitsky / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Fired...