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[Link] Elon Musk fails in bid to delay trial over terminated Twitter deal

Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com

Elon Musk has failed in a bid to delay a trial over his termination of a $44bn (£38bn) deal to buy Twitter. The social media company is suing Musk over his decision to walk away from the transaction and is demanding that he complete the deal on the agreed terms.

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[Link] She Wanted to Accuse a Celebrated Techie of Sexual Assault But Couldn’t. Until Now.

Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com

Multimillionaire tech entrepreneur Zia Chishti has stepped down from his roles in the AI software firm Afiniti, following accusations of sexually assault revealed by a former employee at a U.S. congressional hearing on Nov. 16. 

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[Link] OK, So Facebook Is Bad. Now What?

Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com

Evidence has been mounting for years that Facebook is harmful for its users. Countless reports have documented how the company’s algorithms push people toward radicalization, allow extremist movements to grow, and spread misinformation on an unprecedented scale. 

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[Link] Opinion: Dear Facebook: No one cares about Oculus; give us Instagram revenue!

Read: 26/10/2021 www.marketwatch.com

Facebook goes the Alphabet route — giving investors numbers on a young business instead of mature operations, while renaming the company — but can we just skip to the part where the SEC makes Zuckerberg tell investors what they actually want to know? Facebook Inc.

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[Link] Facebook whistleblower tells politicians to 'team up' with US to regulate social media, or be ignored

Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

Frances Haugen quit Facebook earlier this year and told a congressional hearing in October that Facebook's products were harming children and fuelling polarisation in the United States.

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[Link] Leaker Details Battlefield 2042's 'Troubled Development'

Read: 21/10/2021 gamerant.com

It was no secret that DICE's Battlefield 2042 beta had its fair share of problems as many players were very vocal about the issues they experienced while playing the game.

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[Link] Facebook’s Brand Is So Toxic Zuckerberg Reportedly Wants to Change Its Name

Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. In the middle of one of the worst crises his company has ever faced, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not digging in and fixing the democracy-destroying problems he’s created. Instead, he’s reportedly planning to rebrand.

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[Link] Facebook Says Extremely Common Thing It Does Is Bad When Reporters Do It

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

In an attempt to get ahead of reporting that will seemingly make Facebook—already reeling from weeks of revelations from a whistleblower—somehow look even worse, the company has adopted an increasingly popular strategy among some corporations: posting through it.

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[Link] Facebook bans, sends cease-and-desist letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension

Read: 12/10/2021 www.techspot.com

What just happened? Given the rough couple of weeks Facebook has been through, the company could definitely use some good PR right now, so here's exactly the opposite: it's been revealed that the social network has permanently banned the creator of a tool that unfollows all connections automatically

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[Link] Facebook Is Trying to Delegitimize and Discredit Frances Haugen

Read: 10/10/2021 www.vice.com

The third time she threw in the word stolen, it almost felt forced. “I’m saying that for the majority of teens on Instagram and the survey—the stolen survey—that was shared in the testimony shows that the majority of teens …” she said, before getting back to her point. 

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