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A former employee at the Google-owned AI research firm DeepMind is claiming that the company is trying to “discredit” her and “salvage their own reputation” following her recent allegations of sexual harassment and assault at the firm.
Facebook reportedly plans to take an almost 50 percent cut of all virtual asset sales in its “Metaverse” digital universe. Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe stand to make a fortune if trading NFTs takes off in what he touts as the future of the internet.
Chinese-owned social media app TikTok is set to triple its ad revenue in 2022 to more than $11 billion, totaling more ad sales than Twitter and Snapchat combined.
Facebook and Snapchat are both being sued over the suicide of a teenager in Wisconsin by his mother and an advocacy group holding the tech giants responsible for social media addiction.
According to a recent report, Twitter employees were scheduled to take Monday off work this week for the company’s monthly “day of rest,” but the recent controversy over Elon Musk becoming the company’s largest shareholder and almost joining the board of directors left many workers “super stressed.”
A recent SEC filing has revealed that Facebook (now known as Meta) spent a record $26.8 million on private jets and security for Mark Zuckerberg and his family in 2021.
According to a recent report, one former Tesla Model X owner has been waiting over two years to receive a refund on the vehicle he returned. The customer returned his vehicle under Elon Musk’s seven-day “no questions asked” policy, but has yet to receive a refund. His case against Tesla is currently in arbitration.
Amazon is claiming that New York union organizers gave marijuana to workers in an attempt to secure their unionization votes. Recreational marijuana is legal in New York, and a lawyer for the Amazon Labor Union responded that handing out cannabis is “no different than distributing free t-shirts and it certainly did not act to interfere with the election.”
A recent Chinese embassy event focused on the future of space exploration heavily featured Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk who has dramatically increased his production of electric vehicles in the communist country.
Facebook’s stock has dropped 34 percent sparking anger from a group of shareholders. Among other complaints, the shareholders are deeply concerned by the “dystopian downsides” of Zuckerberg’s much-heralded Metaverse.
Juanita Broaddrick, the former nursing administrator who accused former President Bill Clinton of rape, has been banned from Twitter after tweeting about the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines. Although Elon Musk has made news by becoming Twitter’s largest shareholder, it is clear that censorship still runs amok on the platform.
Despite Google’s constant harvesting of user data, the Masters of the Universe have reportedly banned apps with hidden data-harvesting features from the Google Play Store.
While Facebook has hyped the creation of a digital “metaverse,” it has failed to define exactly what it is or how it will create a viable metaverse product — instead, Mark Zuckerberg uses the buzzword to distract from his platform’s many issues.
Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel recently took shots at Warren Buffett, referring to him as a “sociopathic grandpa from Omaha,” and Bitcoin’s “enemy number 1” Thiel’s fiery remarks came during a recent Bitcoin conference in Miami, Florida.
Vishal Garg, the embattled CEO of Better.com, recently informed laid-off employees in a leaked video that the company “probably pissed away $200 million,” resulting in layoffs. Garg infamously laid off 900 people via Zoom meeting weeks before Christmas last year.
Amazon reportedly plans to object to a recent union election victory at its Staten Island warehouse, alleging that organizers pressured workers into voting.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set to address panicked Twitter employees following his purchase of a large portion of Twitter stock and appointment to the censor-happy company’s board of directors. One employee of the far-left company asked on an internal message board: “We know that he has caused harm to workers, the trans community, women, and others with less power in the world,” the employee asked. “How are we going to reconcile this decision with our values? Does innovation trump humanity?”
The SEC has reportedly launched an investigation into how Amazon discloses details of its business practices, including how it uses third-party seller data. The company stands accused of using data from third-party sellers to decide when to make its own private-label products, unfairly competing with the very companies that generate its sales.
A recent report claims that tech giant Facebook (now known as Meta) is still planning on developing its own digital currency despite previous failures in the crypto space. Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe are reportedly exploring the “least regulated way to offer a digital currency.”
Despite recent advances in privacy measures that have disrupted online tracking, new highly effective tracking methods have been deployed by the Masters of the Universe, who have grown used to the megabillions brought in by surveillance capitalism.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a recent interview that his employees have a nickname for him — “The Eye of Sauron.” Puzzingly, Zuckerberg considers the nickname something of a compliment, claiming his legions of workers associate him with the Lord of the Rings archvillain “lovingly.”
Despite alleged free speech advocate Elon Musk’s purchase of a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, the company reportedly has no plans to reinstate the accounts of former President Donald Trump and the many other conservatives blacklisted by the censor-happy platform. The company defied Musk in a statement, saying: “policy decisions are not determined by the board or shareholders, and we have no plans to reverse any policy decisions.”
According to recent reports, Facebook’s content moderators are told to “err on the side of adult” when unsure of the age of a victim in potential child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
A lawsuit accusing Facebook of purposefully overstating its advertising audience to overinflate ad costs was recently awarded class-action status, allowing the case to include more than 2 million small ad buyers as plaintiffs.
The DOJ has reportedly accelerated its investigation into Google and its Maps product to determine if the Masters of the Universe illegally stifle competition by bundling Maps with other Google software.
Podcast giant Joe Rogan recently stated that he will happily leave Spotify, abandoning his $200 million deal with the woke tech company, if he has to censor his thoughts and “walk on eggshells.”
A recent report reveals that both Apple and Facebook provided private user data to hackers who posed as law enforcement officials. The hackers used forged “emergency data requests” to trick the Masters of the Universe into handing over sensitive information such as IP addresses and phone numbers for their targets.
The New York Times recently outlined how the war in Ukraine put a strain on Facebook’s internal moderation teams which were left in utter chaos by confusing and conflicting rules about what content was permitted on the platform.
Joe Rogan recently criticized “activist” employees at tech giants, calling them “mentally ill.” Describing the Masters of the Universe at Google, Rogan said, “The lunatics are running the asylum to a certain extent because there’s a lot of people working inside the company now that legitimately are mentally ill and they consider themselves activists.”
A recent study suggests that the negative impact of social media platforms varies for girls and boys based on their age. Girls are most negatively impacted between the ages of 11 and 13, while boys are most negatively impacted between 14 and 15 years old.
Workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse where the staff is fighting to unionize are alleging that many were not alerted by management as smoke appeared to fill the warehouse.
Marketers across the Microsoft-owned jobs platform LinkedIn are reportedly using AI-generated human faces and automated messages to trick potential hires into thinking they’re speaking to a real person.
The Apple TV+ film CODA received three awards at the Oscars, including the Best Picture award, marking the first time a streaming service received the coveted top prize at the annual award show.
The Big Tech Masters of the Universe are facing renewed pushback as the European Union Council and European Parliament have reached a provisional political agreement on the Digital Markets Acts (DMA). The DMA will attempt to tame the anti-competitive power of tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook, which the act labels as “gatekeepers.”
Arizona is now offering digital copies of driver’s licenses and state-issued IDs on iPhones and Apple Watches. At least 11 other states are currently considering similar plans. As one professor of technology ethics pointed out, “Apple is now sort of trying to vertically integrate your whole life into its phone.”
Tech giant Apple is working on turning its iPhone and other products into a subscription-based hardware service sharing some similarities with a car lease.