[Link] LAPD Emails Reveal Fallout of Citizen’s Botched Manhunt

Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com

After Citizen's CEO Andrew Frame offered a $30,000 bounty on the wrong person, LAPD officers said they would no longer work with Citizen.

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[Link] Workers At Crime-Watch App Citizen Are Unionizing

Read: 4/10/2021 www.vice.com

The workers petitioned for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on September 22, and are waiting for approval to conduct a union election, according to the National Labor Relations Board filing. They are calling their union the Citizen Central Operations Union.

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[Link] Ex-Fox host claims Facebook defamed him by fact-checking climate change videos

Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com

Former Fox Business host John Stossel is suing Facebook, alleging that the social media company and one of its contracted fact-checking organizations defamed him when it flagged two of his videos, alerting viewers to “missing context” and “partly false” claims.

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