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Meta, Google to Microsoft, tech titans face child exploitation lawsuits
25Oct By adminNo Comments
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Meta, Google to Microsoft, tech titans face child exploitation lawsuits

[ad_1] On Tuesday, Meta was served a lawsuit by more than 30 US states, including 8 individual lawsuits from states, over the alleged use of features in Instagram and Facebook to lure children to the platform and get them hooked on harmful content. This fresh case has again opened the longstanding issue of companies exploiting children, one of the most vulnerable demographics of any digital user base in order to gain profit. However, Meta is not the only one to blame here. For years, many tech firms including Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others have faced similar lawsuits for failing to protect underage users.Protecting children online: The PremiseSo, if you have come across numerous news articles about Meta's lawsuit, you might be curious to know why is there a need to protect childre...
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Twitter traffic takes a deep dive as Threads popularity explodes
10Jul By adminNo Comments
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Twitter traffic takes a deep dive as Threads popularity explodes

[ad_1] Twitter has been suffering from a series of issues lately with “data scraping and system manipulation” plaguing the platform. Since its acquisition by Elon Musk, people have been skeptical of the way Twitter is being run, and several eminent personalities such as Elton John and Jim Carrey have taken the extreme step of even quitting the platform. The microblogging site also suffered a big outage on July 1 with over 4000 people reporting problems like “Cannot retrieve tweets”, downdetector.com revealed. Add to that, Musk's penchant for making changes at the spur-of-the-moment that hamper subscribers in various ways. All this has affected Twitter's popularity and its traffic is dropping. And that will be a big worry for shareholders who would want to hold Musk accountable for it.Tw...
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Twitter Accused of Ducking Legal Fight Over Musk’s Mass Layoffs
4Jul By adminNo Comments
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Twitter Accused of Ducking Legal Fight Over Musk’s Mass Layoffs

[ad_1] Twitter Inc. is refusing to engage in arbitration with ex-employees who were fired when Elon Musk took over the company after pushing them to use that process to resolve claims that they weren't paid, didn't get promised severance, or were discriminated against, according to a lawsuit.The company now known as X Corp. has been accused in multiple suits of numerous labor and workplace violations, including its failure to pay thousands of workers laid off late last year after Musk's acquisition. About 2,000 former Twitter employees have resorted to fighting their claims in arbitration as the company has demanded — but Twitter hasn't shown up, according to a complaint filed Monday in San Francisco federal court. The social media platform won a ruling in January requiring workers who ...
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Twitter Wins Dismissal of Elon Musk Layoff Gender-Bias Lawsuit, for Now
10May By adminNo Comments
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Twitter Wins Dismissal of Elon Musk Layoff Gender-Bias Lawsuit, for Now

[ad_1] Twitter Inc. won the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming Elon Musk's mass layoffs forced a disproportionate number of women to leave the company.US District Judge Jon Tigar ruled Monday that the plaintiffs had not first attempted to fully resolve their complaint through federal agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Tigar also said the plaintiffs can amend and refile their complaint. The lawsuit in San Francisco federal court stems from Musk's move in November to eliminate more than half of Twitter's head count just after he acquired the company for $44 billion. Female workers were unfairly targeted due to sex discrimination, according to the suit. The lawsuit was filed by Carolina Bernal Strifling, who lives in Miami and worked for Twitter for seven years, ...
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Twitter to YouTube, horror looms for social media companies
19Feb By adminNo Comments
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Twitter to YouTube, horror looms for social media companies

[ad_1] In 2021, a California state court threw out a feminist blogger's lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc of unlawfully barring as "hateful conduct" posts criticizing transgender people. In 2022, a federal court in California tossed a lawsuit by LGBT plaintiffs accusing YouTube, part of Alphabet Inc, of restricting content posted by gay and transgender people. These lawsuits were among many scuttled by a powerful form of immunity enshrined in U.S. law that covers internet companies. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 frees platforms from legal responsibility for content posted online by their users. In a major case to be argued at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, the nine justices will address the scope of Section 230 for the first time. A ruling weakening it could...
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Twitter’s laid-off workers cannot pursue claims via class-action lawsuit-judge
15Jan By adminNo Comments
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Twitter’s laid-off workers cannot pursue claims via class-action lawsuit-judge

[ad_1] Donato granted Twitter's request to force the five ex-employees to pursue their claims individually, citing agreements they signed with the company. Twitter Inc has secured a ruling allowing the social media company to force several laid-off workers suing over their termination to pursue their claims via individual arbitration than a class-action lawsuit. U.S. District Judge James Donato on Friday ruled that five former Twitter employees pursuing a proposed class action accusing the company of failing to give adequate notice before laying them off after its acquisition by Elon Musk must pursue their claims in private arbitration. Donato granted Twitter's request to force the five ex-employees to pursue their claims individually, citing agreements the...
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Twitter Must Tell Fired Workers About Severance Lawsuit, Judge Rules
15Dec By adminNo Comments
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Twitter Must Tell Fired Workers About Severance Lawsuit, Judge Rules

[ad_1] Twitter Inc. employees terminated in Elon Musk’s mass layoffs must be told about a lawsuit on their behalf… Twitter Inc. employees terminated in Elon Musk's mass layoffs must be told about a lawsuit on their behalf against the company before they're asked to give up their legal rights to qualify for severance pay, a judge ruled. Twitter wants employees who accept a severance package that includes a month of base pay to sign a waiver agreeing not to join lawsuits against the company. The agreement doesn't mention the existence of a class-action suit filed just before hundreds of people were fired in early November following Elon Musk's takeover. A company's communications with workers about severance packages “should not be rendered misleading by omitting material informati...
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Elon Musk-led Twitter is anti-women? ‘Humiliated’ workers sue company
10Dec By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk-led Twitter is anti-women? ‘Humiliated’ workers sue company

[ad_1] The discrimination lawsuit is the latest in a series of legal challenges over Musk's decimation of Twitter's workforce through mass layoffs and firings. Two women who lost their jobs at Twitter when billionaire Elon Musk took over are suing the company in federal court, claiming that last month's abrupt mass layoffs disproportionately affected female employees.The discrimination lawsuit is the latest in a series of legal challenges over Musk's decimation of Twitter's workforce through mass layoffs and firings. Days after the world's richest man bought the social media platform for $44 billion, the company told about half of employees on Nov. 4 that they no longer had a job but would get three months severance. The lawsuit filed in a San Francisco federal court this week alleges...
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Lawyer Suing Twitter Over Layoffs Says Musk Trying to Comply
5Nov By adminNo Comments
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Lawyer Suing Twitter Over Layoffs Says Musk Trying to Comply

[ad_1] The lawyer who sued Twitter Inc. “pre-emptively” on the eve of mass layoffs by Elon Musk said she’s “pleased” to learn at least some employees will continue being paid until Jan. 4. The lawyer who sued Twitter Inc. “pre-emptively” on the eve of mass layoffs by Elon Musk said she's “pleased” to learn at least some employees will continue being paid until Jan. 4. Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan said Friday that the billionaire “is making an effort to comply” with the law, less than half a day after she accused the company in a class-action federal lawsuit of violating federal and California statutes restricting companies from mounting mass layoffs on short notice. Liss-Riordan, who filed a similar lawsuit over June layoffs at Musk's automaker Tesla Inc., said she “will be moni...
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‘Overpaying’ Elon Musk on deadline to close Twitter deal
27Oct By adminNo Comments
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‘Overpaying’ Elon Musk on deadline to close Twitter deal

[ad_1] Elon Musk looks set to meet a Friday deadline to seal his on-again, off-again deal to buy Twitter, avoiding a trial over the $44 billion contract that he admits is overpriced. Elon Musk looks set to meet a Friday deadline to seal his on-again, off-again deal to buy Twitter, avoiding a trial over the $44 billion contract that he admits is overpriced. After he sought to terminate the sale, Twitter filed a lawsuit to hold Musk to the agreement he inked in April to purchase the social media giant. With a trial looming, the unpredictable billionaire capitulated and revived his takeover plan. Musk signaled the deal was on track Wednesday by changing his Twitter profile to "Chief Twit" and posting a video of himself walking into the company's California headquarters carrying a ...
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