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Last week, Elon Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. Soon after closing the deal, Musk fired Twitter’s top executives including its CEO, CFO, General Counsel, and Head of Legal Policy, Trust and Safety. More layoffs are to be made in the coming days.

Meta and Sama have been trying to to crush Motaung’s efforts to improve labor conditions for Facebook content moderators in Kenya and around the world.

There seem to be quite a lot of caveats in that announcement, what should assessment of what is actually happening and what are students meant to make of this? yes. students meant to make of this? yes, i think ultimately _ students meant to make of this? yes i think ultimately overcomes a students meant to make of this? is: i think ultimately overcomes a big relief to many. weve had formal exams cancelled for two years in narrow. if we go back to 2020, that was our fairly quick cancellation. the...

Read more about Facebook plans to end special treatment for politicians, says report on Business Standard. Facebook plans to end a contentious policy championed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that exempted politicians from certain moderation rules on its site, according to several news reports.

The Irish Parliament today held a hearing on Facebook’s treatment of subcontracted content moderators—the thousands of people up to their eyeballs in toxic waste in the company basement. Moderators have repeatedly reported over the years that their contract companies hurl them into traumatizing work with little coaching or mental health support, in a system designed to stifle speech.

Photo: Jacquelyn Martin (AP) America may have to wait another six months to find out whether Facebook has the capacity to make a good decision. Advertisement On Wednesday, Facebook’s Oversight Board announced that it would uphold the social media network’s decision to suspend Donald Trump from its main site and Instagram after he rallied his supporters to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6 in a failed effort to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential race. It also rule...

Photo: Michael B. Thomas (Getty Images) From the flaming ashes of the GameStop stock clusterfuck, the WallStreetBets Discord group returns from the dead. Advertisement It’s been a rough morning for anyone trying to get rich by pouring money into garbage stocks. Over the last week or so, we’ve seen a remarkable run on stocks like GameStop, AMC, and BlackBerry that has sent their market caps soaring. But a crackdown by Robinhood and other investment apps for retail investors has led to those ...