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Meta Stops Former Employee From Promoting Explosive Memoir
An arbitration court this week granted Meta's request to bar Wynn-Williams from promoting the book or making derogatory statements about the company.
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Ex Employee Gets 5 Years Jail For Stealing $5 Million From Facebook, Nike
A former Meta and Nike employee, who was hired to boost workplace diversity, has been charged for stealing $5 million from the companies to fund a "luxury lifestyle".
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Ex Facebook Employee Admits To Stealing Over $4 Million From Company To Fund Luxurious Lifestyle
A former Facebook employee has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $4 million from the social media giant "to fund a lavish lifestyle" in California and Georgia.
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Meta Knew Teens Harassed Online But Chose Not To Stop It, Says Ex-Employee
A former Meta employee testified before a US Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, alleging that the Facebook and Instagram parent company was aware of harassment and other harms facing teens on its platforms but failed to address them.
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Woman Laid Off Twice By Meta Shares Her Experience: "I Cried For 2 Hours"
Andrea Guzman Garcia-Luna was first laid off in 2018 when the Instagram Community Team was disintegrated.
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Facebook Intentionally Drains Users’ Phone Batteries, Former Employee Claims in Lawsuit: Report
Former Facebook employee George Hayward has reportedly claimed that the app intentionally drains users’ phone batteries in a practice called negative testing. In a lawsuit filed against Facebook parent firm Meta at a Manhattan Federal Court, Hayward, a data scientist, claims that he was fired from his role for refusing to participate in the afore...
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Coinbase Appoints Ex CryptoCom, Facebook Employees to Head its Units in Europe, Africa, Middle East
Coinbase has expanded its teams in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regions. Cormac Dinan, the ex-general manager of the CryptoCom, and Elke Karskens, the former director of partnerships in Facebook, are among the five new senior-level executives, that Coinbase has freshly added to its teams in the EMEA regions.
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Facebook Allowed Employees to Access Deleted User Data, Fired Content Screener Claims
Facebook introduced a protocol in 2018 allowing the company’s employees to access data that users deleted, according to a former content screener. Earlier this week, Brennan Lawson sued Facebook parent company Meta, claiming he was fired for raising alarms about the new protocol, which appeared to violate EU digital privacy rules and an FTC order...
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Meta Is Roping In Employees From Apple and Microsoft, Augmented Reality Experts in Focus: Report
Mark Zuckerberg is filling up the AR teams of its rebranded Meta platform (formerly Facebook) with the top minds in the industry. Meta is trying to get engineers from Apple and Microsoft to join its company instead. The companies are rivals in the tech space, the sentiment which is now extending to the metaverse sector as well.
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Meta Makes Booster Shots Mandatory for Returning Workers, Office Reopening Delayed
Meta (formerly Facebook) has further delayed office reopening and made booster shots mandatory for returning workers.
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Facebook Knew About Abusive Content Globally but Failed to Police: Former Employees
Facebook employees have warned for years that as the company raced to become a global service it was failing to police abusive content in countries where such speech was likely to cause the most harm, according to interviews with five former employees and internal company documents.
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Facebook Reports Quarterly Profit Of Over $9 Billion; Users Rise To 2.91 Billion
Facebook's former employee Frances Haugen leaked reams of internal studies showing executives knew of their sites' potential for harm, prompting a renewed US push for regulation
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Facebook Now Reportedly Accused of Wrongdoing by Another Whistleblower
Facebook is now being accused by another former employee of putting profits ahead of stopping problematic content, weeks after another whistleblower helped stoke the firm's latest crisis with similar claims.
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Facebook's Oversight Board To Meet Whistleblower Frances Haugen
Facebook Inc's oversight board, a body set up by the social network to give independent verdicts on a small number of thorny content decisions, said on Monday it would meet with former employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen in the coming weeks.
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Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Will Urge US Senate to Regulate Company
Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen will urge the US Congress to regulate the social media giant, which she plans to liken to tobacco companies that for decades denied that smoking damaged health, according to a prepared testimony.
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Meta Stops Former Employee From Promoting Explosive Memoir
An arbitration court this week granted Meta's request to bar Wynn-Williams from promoting the book or making derogatory statements about the company.
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Ex Employee Gets 5 Years Jail For Stealing $5 Million From Facebook, Nike
A former Meta and Nike employee, who was hired to boost workplace diversity, has been charged for stealing $5 million from the companies to fund a "luxury lifestyle".
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Ex Facebook Employee Admits To Stealing Over $4 Million From Company To Fund Luxurious Lifestyle
A former Facebook employee has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $4 million from the social media giant "to fund a lavish lifestyle" in California and Georgia.
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Meta Knew Teens Harassed Online But Chose Not To Stop It, Says Ex-Employee
A former Meta employee testified before a US Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, alleging that the Facebook and Instagram parent company was aware of harassment and other harms facing teens on its platforms but failed to address them.
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Woman Laid Off Twice By Meta Shares Her Experience: "I Cried For 2 Hours"
Andrea Guzman Garcia-Luna was first laid off in 2018 when the Instagram Community Team was disintegrated.
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Facebook Intentionally Drains Users’ Phone Batteries, Former Employee Claims in Lawsuit: Report
Former Facebook employee George Hayward has reportedly claimed that the app intentionally drains users’ phone batteries in a practice called negative testing. In a lawsuit filed against Facebook parent firm Meta at a Manhattan Federal Court, Hayward, a data scientist, claims that he was fired from his role for refusing to participate in the afore...
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Coinbase Appoints Ex CryptoCom, Facebook Employees to Head its Units in Europe, Africa, Middle East
Coinbase has expanded its teams in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regions. Cormac Dinan, the ex-general manager of the CryptoCom, and Elke Karskens, the former director of partnerships in Facebook, are among the five new senior-level executives, that Coinbase has freshly added to its teams in the EMEA regions.
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Facebook Allowed Employees to Access Deleted User Data, Fired Content Screener Claims
Facebook introduced a protocol in 2018 allowing the company’s employees to access data that users deleted, according to a former content screener. Earlier this week, Brennan Lawson sued Facebook parent company Meta, claiming he was fired for raising alarms about the new protocol, which appeared to violate EU digital privacy rules and an FTC order...
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Meta Is Roping In Employees From Apple and Microsoft, Augmented Reality Experts in Focus: Report
Mark Zuckerberg is filling up the AR teams of its rebranded Meta platform (formerly Facebook) with the top minds in the industry. Meta is trying to get engineers from Apple and Microsoft to join its company instead. The companies are rivals in the tech space, the sentiment which is now extending to the metaverse sector as well.
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Meta Makes Booster Shots Mandatory for Returning Workers, Office Reopening Delayed
Meta (formerly Facebook) has further delayed office reopening and made booster shots mandatory for returning workers.
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Facebook Knew About Abusive Content Globally but Failed to Police: Former Employees
Facebook employees have warned for years that as the company raced to become a global service it was failing to police abusive content in countries where such speech was likely to cause the most harm, according to interviews with five former employees and internal company documents.
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Facebook Reports Quarterly Profit Of Over $9 Billion; Users Rise To 2.91 Billion
Facebook's former employee Frances Haugen leaked reams of internal studies showing executives knew of their sites' potential for harm, prompting a renewed US push for regulation
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Facebook Now Reportedly Accused of Wrongdoing by Another Whistleblower
Facebook is now being accused by another former employee of putting profits ahead of stopping problematic content, weeks after another whistleblower helped stoke the firm's latest crisis with similar claims.
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Facebook's Oversight Board To Meet Whistleblower Frances Haugen
Facebook Inc's oversight board, a body set up by the social network to give independent verdicts on a small number of thorny content decisions, said on Monday it would meet with former employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen in the coming weeks.
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Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Will Urge US Senate to Regulate Company
Former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen will urge the US Congress to regulate the social media giant, which she plans to liken to tobacco companies that for decades denied that smoking damaged health, according to a prepared testimony.
