Tag: Media & Big Tech

Sam Bankman-Fried Issues First Response to FTX Case: ‘I Didn’t Steal Funds’

The founder and former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, promised that customers could get their money back in his first statement since his arrest in the Bahamas. “I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away,” Bankman-Fried said in a Jan. 12th statement on his Substack blog, titled “FTX Pre-Mortem Overview.” “No funds were…


Amazon to Appeal US Labor Board’s Certification of Union Victory in New York

Amazon said it plans to appeal the official certification of its workers attempts at unionization in New York by the federal government’s labor relations board. Regional director Cornele Overstreet of the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) upheld an Amazon warehouse union’s victory in New York City in her decision on Jan. 11. The Amazon Labor Union…


Microsoft Says It Will Start Offering US Employees ‘Unlimited’ Time Off

Starting next week, Microsoft’s current vacation policy will change to an unlimited one, meaning all salaried employees in the United States can take time off as needed and also will no longer need to wait and accrue holiday anymore. The new policy, which goes into effect on Jan. 16, is described by the world’s biggest…


Coinbase to Cut a Fifth of Its Workforce in a Second Round of Layoffs

Coinbase will be cutting a fifth of its workforce following an earlier staff reduction in June 2022 in an attempt to preserve its assets as the crypto industry faces a severe downturn. Some of the largest firms in Silicon Valley in general have been delivering a steady stream of job cut announcements in recent months….


Twitter Says No Evidence New User Data Leaks Were Obtained via System Bug

Twitter Inc. said on Wednesday that there was no evidence that data recently being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in the company’s systems. Twitter said the data of 5.4 million of the accounts had been compromised by a bug it discovered early last year, which it previously fixed and disclosed over the…


COVID-Narrative Dissenters File Antitrust Action Against Legacy Media Over Coordinated Censorship

A coalition of outspoken critics and skeptics of the mainstream narratives on COVID-19 has brought an antitrust lawsuit against some of the world’s largest news organizations, accusing them of working in collaboration to suppress dissenting voices surrounding the pandemic. The lawsuit (pdf), filed on Tuesday in a federal court in Texas, targets The Washington Post,…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Adam Coleman: Overcoming a ‘Poisonous’ Society of Victims and Saviors

“My search for black identity was something that I actually enjoyed, until I started noticing that there was a level of animosity that comes with it that’s being preached. It is a celebration of being black and also is a rejection of ‘white.’” Adam Coleman is the founder of WrongSpeak Publishing and author of “Black…


PREMIERING NOW: Adam Coleman: Overcoming a ‘Poisonous’ Society of Victims and Saviors

“My search for black identity was something that I actually enjoyed, until I started noticing that there was a level of animosity that comes with it that’s being preached. It is a celebration of being black and also is a rejection of ‘white.’” Adam Coleman is the founder of WrongSpeak Publishing and author of “Black…


Adam Coleman: Overcoming a ‘Poisonous’ Society of Victims and Saviors

“My search for black identity was something that I actually enjoyed, until I started noticing that there was a level of animosity that comes with it that’s being preached. It is a celebration of being black and also is a rejection of ‘white.’” Adam Coleman is the founder of WrongSpeak Publishing and author of “Black…


Social Media Bosses Could Face Jail If They Breach Rules on Children Under UK’s Online Safety Bill

Tory MPs are planning an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that would make tech executives criminally liable for children’s duty of care failures. Conservative MP Miriam Cates and other MPs including Sir William Cash, Andrea Leadsom, Julian Lewis, Lia Nici, Tim Loughton, Lee Anderson, and former Home Secretary Priti Patel are backing an amendment (pdf)…