Meta CEO and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday that his company would be halting their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, becoming the first major California company to do so. While many major companies began adding DEI programs and...
Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday morning that his company Meta/Facebook will end its fact-checking program, and will instead adopt Elon Musk’s X/Twitter “Community Notes” system. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp. Zuckerberg admits “fact checkers” on...
Tyrannical governments share two hallmark characteristics: 1) they block opportunities for people to challenge their power, and 2) they limit people’s ability to talk about it. We need look no further than Venezuela and Brazil for ongoing examples in our...
Kamala Harris has a definite view of the concept of free speech. So definite, in fact, that she doesn’t even believe in it for herself. Her “pop-up” campaign has been mostly marked by the muzzle she has agreed to wear...
Meta, the Menlo Park-based parent company of social media sites Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, announced on Tuesday that they would be laying off another 10,000 employees this Spring, marking the second round of large layoffs by the social media company...
Is charity still charity when it is performed for uncharitable reasons? Looking beyond the “aw, neat, what a great person” façade of “effective altruism,” (see HERE, with a grain of salt…) one clearly finds a level of narcissistic cynicism and...
Meta, the Menlo Park-based parent company of social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, laid off 13% of their employees, or over 11,000, on Thursday, continuing the stark trend of cutbacks at Bay Area and Silicon Valley tech...