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Contracting firms that employ shuttle bus drivers and other service workers that support Facebook (now known as Meta) say they will need to slash a significant number of workers in the wake of Mark Zuckerberg implementing relaxed policies that allow his employees to work from home.

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who was recently found guilty on four counts of fraud and conspiracy after she duped investors with her blood-testing startup, is requesting a new trial.

A federal judge declined to overturn a jury’s guilty verdict against disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes on Thursday, reports Associated Press.

Snap, the company behind social media platform Snapchat, is laying off approximately 20 percent of its more than 6,400 employees, according to sources.

Apple will attempt to get its employees to go back into the office after trying for over a year to no avail. This time, the company has set a September 5 deadline for corporate employees to be in the office at least three days a week. Last time the woke giant attempted to get its workers back into the office, it was branded as racist for trying.

Snapchat’s parent company Snap is reportedly in the early stages of planning layoffs, according to two sources.

Republicans think a “red wave” is inevitable in November. But the Democrats still have one big advantage: the ever-tightening grip of Big Tech censorship, which will be used to prevent undecided voters from encountering even the most mainstream conservative news in the runup to the next election. Republicans will have a strong message — but what if voters are prevented from hearing it?

U.S. technology companies have shied away from doing business with the U.S. military because they fear losing access to the Chinese market, according to Palmer Luckey, who founded the virtual reality hardware firm Oculus and now runs Anduril Industries, a defense startup.

More than 70 cities and towns across America have implemented incentive programs aimed at drawing businesses and remote workers away from Silicon Valley and other coastal hubs, and are enjoying increased success since the pandemic, reports the Wall Street Journal. 

Facebook (now known as Meta) has reportedly told managers to identify employees for layoffs, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently saying the company is experiencing “one of the worst downturns” in recent history.

The CEO of software company ReadyTech, John Woodward, has been arrested in connection with the 1992 murder of computer engineer Laurie Houts in Mountain View, California, the heart of Silicon Valley. Woodward has faced trial twice in the murder, with both trials ending in hung juries. Authorities believe that new DNA techniques have finally provided the evidence needed to prove their case.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently told staff in a memo that the company will be slowing hiring and to “be more entrepreneurial” and work with “more hunger.”

Current French President Emmanuel Macron is alleged to have “secretly” worked to make arrangements beneficial to big tech transport firm Uber, reports have claimed.

Tech workers are not interested in the idea of going into an office all day after experiencing remote work in the wake of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

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.

The British government has claimed they will give free speech a “trump card” status in an effort to combat woke cancel culture, despite the fact it is currently legislating to increase censorship online.

The Ministry of Defence demanded earlier this week that YouTube remove footage of a Russian prankster prank calling their Defence Secretary.

Employees at the digital mortgage lender Better.com reportedly learned that they have been laid off when their severance checks suddenly appeared in their payroll app. Last year the company’s bumbling CEO, Vishal Garg, faced massive backlash after laying off other employees via a mass Zoom meeting.

Republican Joe Kent is running on a populist platform for a seat in Congress but first, he’s got to win his Washington state GOP primary against incumbent Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler and her corporate donors.

Peloton has faced a number of crises in recent months, now the company is facing yet another as details of a plan to conceal the internal corrosion of exercise machines referred to internally as “Project Tinman,” are made public. One outraged employee who came forward said: “It was the single driving factor in my beginning stages of hatred for the company that I had spent the previous year and a half falling in love with.”

Sir Nick Clegg, the discredited deputy prime minister turned Silicon Valley bigwig, has been promoted by Facebook’s parent company to a senior global position under the direct supervision of tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg.

Six unions in Santa Clara County, which includes portions of Silicon Valley, united this week to oppose a mandate requiring county employees to receive a booster shot for the coronavirus vaccine, citing the likelihood of staff shortages.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” author, Washington Post columnist, and CNN political analyst Josh Rogin said that Golden State Warriors part-owner Chamath Palihapitiya has a point when he says people don’t care about China’s treatment of the Uyghurs and that “reveals an

Mark Levin praised Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, a forthcoming book from Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), as Schweizer’s “best book.”

Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz reportedly celebrated the verdict of disgraced Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes by “popping champagne.” Shultz was a full-time employee of Theranos that quit after just eight months when he recognized that “it was clear that there was an open secret within Theranos that this technology simply didn’t exist.”

In a recent article, the New York Times discusses the issue of inaccurate prenatal blood tests which regularly indicate that unborn babies could have disorders and ailments. But the tests are often wrong. The Times reports that for every 15 times they accurately diagnose a health issue in babies, they are wrong a stunning 85 times.

The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is unable to reach a unanimous verdict on three of the 11 criminal counts she faces, according to a note from the panel read aloud in court.

Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has reportedly accepted a role in Silicon Valley, after resigning over allegations of corruption.

According to a recent report, Facebook’s reputation has been so damaged by its various scandals and issues that the company is forced to pay more to hire and retain workers.

Universities and workplaces across the country are once again going remote as the coronavirus omicron variant spreads across the country.

Three top executives at Better.com have reportedly resigned from the mortgage lender after CEO Vishal Garg received major backlash for awkwardly firing at least 900 employees over Zoom. Additional bizarre communications from Garg have leaked out, such as an email reading: “You are a bunch of DUMB DOLPHINS and…DUMB DOLPHINS get caught in nets and eaten by sharks. SO STOP IT. STOP IT. STOP IT RIGHT NOW. YOU ARE EMBARRASSING ME.”

Executives for the largest multinational tech corporations are lobbying President Joe Biden to expand legal immigration levels so they can outsource more American jobs as a fix to the so-called “talent shortage” in the United States.

Vishal Garg, the CEO of digital mortgage company Better.com, recently fired more than 900 employees via a single Zoom meeting last week, which is about 15 percent of the company’s workforce. Garg later accused “at least 250” staffers of working just two hours a day.

Democrats create electricity and water shortages and wildfires while blaming “climate change” and “global warming,” Rep. Devin Nunes said.

Disgraced Silicon Valley whiz kid and former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes admitted to doctoring lab reports with logos of pharmaceutical companies and sending them to Walgreens while pursuing a deal to put her blood-testing startup’s diagnostic machines in the pharmacy’s stores.

Disgraced Silicon Valley star and Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes unexpectedly took the witness stand, a move that carries considerable risk, late on Friday at her criminal trial for fraud.