Social Media & Big Tech news and discussions

[caltrek]

"YouTube will now allow 2020 election denialism content, in policy reversal"
New York
CNN
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New York
CNN
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*snip*

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/business ... index.html

Trump is just wearing us down with his Big Lie, and his followers are enabling him to do that. Only the loss of several more elections on the part of Republicans who push this Big Lie will allow it to finally go away. Certainly, the total lack of credible supportive evidence on its own does not seem to have done the trick.

[Time_Traveller]

"YouTube will now allow 2020 election denialism content, in policy reversal"
New York
CNN
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*snip*

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/business ... index.html

Trump is just wearing us down with his Big Lie, and his followers are enabling him to do that. Only the loss of several more elections on the part of Republicans who push this Big Lie will allow it to finally go away. Certainly, the total lack of credible supportive evidence on its own does not seem to have done the trick.

This also says alot about Youtube too.

[Powers]

This also says alot about Youtube too.

Preparing their mouth for a new -angry- administration.

[wjfox]

[Powers]

The goal is to get rid (note: not delete) of old internet/data.

[wjfox]

[wjfox]

[weatheriscool]

Twitter has failed to pay millions in worker bonuses, lawsuit claims
Source: Reuters

June 21 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc is facing a lawsuit claiming it failed to pay workers millions of dollars in promised bonuses, adding to a pile of court cases filed since Elon Musk acquired the social media company.

Mark Schobinger, who was Twitter's senior director of compensation and left the company last month, filed the proposed class action in San Francisco federal court on Tuesday.

Schobinger says that before and after Musk purchased Twitter last year, the company promised employees that they would receive 50% of their target bonuses for 2022. But those payments never materialized, according to the lawsuit, which accuses Twitter of breach of contract.

Twitter, also known as X Corp, no longer has a media relations office. It responded to a request for comment on the lawsuit with a poop emoji. Schobinger's lawyer, Shannon Liss-Riordan, represents ex-Twitter workers in several other lawsuits and about 2,000 individual arbitration cases stemming from mass layoffs ordered by Musk last year.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/twitter-h ... 023-06-21/

[weatheriscool]

[Time_Traveller]

Twitter has started blocking unregistered users

Jun 30, 2023, 3:44 PM GMT+1

If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you may find you’re unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the wider public. Instead, you’ll likely be met with the Twitter window that asks you to either sign in to the platform or create a new account, effectively blocking you from viewing tweets and user profiles or browsing through threads unless you’re a registered Twitter user.

Several members of The Verge team have been able to replicate the issue, and it appears to be affecting web access on both desktop and mobile devices. Prior to this change, Twitter allowed people limited access to the platform without an account — you could view public tweets and user profiles, for example, but couldn’t like or leave comments. A window that prevented readers from viewing additional posts until they signed in also previously appeared after the viewer had scrolled past an undisclosed number of tweets, though that at least allowed some access to the platform.

Now, regardless of how you try to access the website — be that the homepage or a direct link to a tweet or profile — you’re immediately met with a sign-in prompt that completely obscures your view. It doesn’t even tease the content with a swift redirect. You simply can’t see anything.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/2377 ... unt-tweets