Study: 193 Instacart users across four US cities saw different prices for the same items from the same store at the same time; Instacart says it's running tests
The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.
The White House says representatives from Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, and other corporate donors to a $250M ballroom attended a dinner with President Trump
Dinner set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon.com and Palantir
The FTC proposes a rule banning non-compete clauses, saying the contracts harm healthy competition in the labor and product markets and block entrepreneurship
the latest move in Lina Khan's ambitious reform agenda. https://www.nytimes.com/... Elizabeth Warren / @ewarren : Imagine you hate your job. The pay is low. The benefits are crummy...
US Senators Elizabeth Warren (D) and Roger Marshall (R) introduce the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act, including KYC requirements for wallets and miners
Workers at Amazon's Staten Island facility secure enough votes to unionize, by a 2,654 to 2,131 margin, a first for an Amazon warehouse in the US
- Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted Friday to join a union, the first time that's happened at one of the company's U.S. facilities.
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook the company is now Meta, to better encompass all of its products
the Facebook company's new name. Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we'll play and connect in 3D. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection. https://twitt...
Meta is just playing catch-up as Roblox, Steam VR, VRChat, and other platforms have already developed metaverse-like experiences
In addition to announcing Facebook's rebranding to Meta on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg delivered a number of lofty promises about the metaverse and its features.
Facebook tells employees to preserve internal docs and communications related to its business since 2016, as governments and legislative bodies begin inquiries
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Ex-Facebook integrity member says articles on Haugen leaks are based on internal posts and comments, making it hard to assign credibility as names are redacted
Casey Newton / Platformer :
Frances Haugen's documents have been useful to the press and groups opposing Facebook, but reporting should now expand to examine Haugen and her backers' goals
> regulators —> legislation, we're not going to get the outcome we're hoping for. 7/n Joe Bak-Coleman / @jbakcoleman : My concern is that we're going to address “move fast and brea...
Ex-Facebook integrity member says articles on Haugen leaks are based on internal posts and comments, making it hard to assign credibility as names are redacted
A former integrity worker on Facebook's internal “posting culture” and why it's easy to misread the Haugen leaks
A look at the Integrity Institute, a think tank formed by two former Facebook employees that wants to bring together tech integrity workers studying tech misuse
Shortly before he left Facebook in October 2019, Jeff Allen published his last report as a data scientist for the company's integrity team …
Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents
a delightful & depressing social lubricant blending short-term euphoria w/ long-term regret that offers to young consumers a messy cocktail of dopamine, disorientation, and depende...
Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents
- Facebook Instagram chief Adam Mosseri came under a flurry of criticism after comparing the value of social networks to society to that of cars. Source: Apple Podcasts .
Profile of PodSwap, a startup offering a battery replacement service for Apple's AirPods, and a great example of why we need right-to-repair legislation
breathing new life into the #RightToRepair. @kifleswing @CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/... Alex Russell / @slightlylate : Watching Apple lose this one is amazingly satisfying. No green...
Q&A: Facebook Oversight Board director Thomas Hughes on upholding Trump's ban, why the Board isn't a PR stunt, Facebook refusing to answer its questions, more
Nicholas Suzar who “loved” a comparison between Trump & Hitler —Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, a member of George Soros' Open Society Initiative —Jamal Greene who fantasized about Trum...
During an address, President Biden said Amazon uses “various loopholes” to avoid paying any federal income taxes, but says he doesn't want to “punish” them
Nandita Bose / Reuters :
A group of over 200 Google and Alphabet workers have announced their plan to form a union, open to both employees and contractors
A group of more than 200 Google and Alphabet workers have announced the formation of the Alphabet Workers Union, The New York Times first reported.
Facebook and Google have extended their planned one-week bans on political ads, as Trump and GOP continue their claims of voter fraud
which they're now letting run wild during a critical moment for our democracy. https://twitter.com/... @rmac18 : One internal Facebook saying is, “Nothing at Facebook is someone el...
Facebook says it will temporarily suspend political ads after US polls close on Nov. 3 and will remove calls for poll watching that use “militarized” language
The move is intended to limit confusion and misinformation on the platform, the social media company says