Meta moderators were already in Texas before Zuckerberg announced move, say ex-workers | Technology
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced in a carefully worded statement that Meta's trust and safety and content management teams would be relocated from California and that the company's content review would be “based in Texas.” The goal of these team efforts is to prevent users of Facebook and Instagram from encountering hate speech, pornography, and […]
Whole Foods settles ex-worker’s lawsuit over Black Lives Matter masks
Amazon-owned upscale grocery chain Whole Foods has agreed to settle a lawsuit that alleged it wrongfully fired an employee who refused to remove a Black Lives Matter mask and complained about racism at the chain. Whole Foods’ lawyers said: Filing The company reached an agreement in principle Monday in federal court in Boston to settle […]
Elon Musk’s X wins $500M severance lawsuit from ex-workers
Billionaire tycoon Elon Musk won a lawsuit on Tuesday after a San Francisco federal court sided with Musk in a lawsuit filed by fired employees of Company X who claim he didn’t pay them $500 million in severance pay. U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson ruled Tuesday that about 6,000 employees who were laid off after […]
Feds grill ex-workers from NYC wine shop Sherry-Lehmann
The federal government is on the brink of wrapping up a years-long investigation into the iconic wine shop Shelley Lehmann and may bring charges against its former owners for cheating customers out of vintage wines, according to information obtained by The Washington Post. Investigators from the FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service have been […]
Tesla settles ex-worker’s lawsuit alleging she was sexually harassed 100 times
Tesla, facing a series of lawsuits related to sex and racial discrimination, has settled a lawsuit brought by a former factory employee who said he was fired after complaining of severe sexual harassment. San Francisco U.S. District Judge William Orrick dismissed Tiyonah Turner’s 2023 lawsuit on Monday, a day after she and Tesla notified the […]
TikTok only focused on ‘front door’ when hiding US user data: ex-workers
In the face of a U.S. ban, TikTok has publicly claimed that U.S. users’ data is isolated from its Chinese parent company ByteDance, but two former employees of the highly addictive social media site say otherwise. claims. Patrick Spalding Ryan, former head of security and engineering at TikTok, said: told Fortune The company was unable […]