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☆ Drake: Alexis Ohanian and Megan Thee Stallion respond to disses on 'Her Loss'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Drake released “Her Loss,” a 16-track collaboration with 21 Savage, on Friday. On one song, “Circo Loco,” he seems to imply that Megan Thee Stallion’s allegations that she was shot by Tory Lanez were false. “This b—- lie ‘bout getting shots but she still a stallion,” Drake raps on the cut. On Twitter, Megan asked other artists to “stop using my shooting for clout” shortly after the album was released. Megan Thee Stallion has been vocal about critiquing the societal acceptance of violence against Black women, penning a New York Times op-ed in 2020 that reflected on her shooting and the intersection of sexism and racism.

The groups said on Friday they are escalating their pressure and demanding brands pull their Twitter ads globally. Staff who worked in engineering, communications, product, content curation and machine learning ethics were among those impacted by the layoffs, according to tweets from Twitter staff. Shannon Raj Singh, an attorney who was Twitter's acting head of human rights, tweeted on Friday that the entire human rights team at the company had been cut. Musk tweeted that his team had made no changes to content moderation and done "everything we could" to appease the groups. Employees of Twitter Blue, the premium subscription service that Musk is bolstering, were also let go.

"Elon will own a company without employees," a source inside Twitter told CNBC. In an exchange at an investor conference Friday, Musk appeared to confirm that his team had laid off half the company's workforce, according to CNBC. Inside the company, anxieties about potential layoffs were swirling around even before Musk’s takeover was finished. However, Twitter’s general counsel urged workers not to dwell on rumors before Musk took the reins. Tech industry observers have raised concerns that he might loosen content moderation policies that limit hate speech and political disinformation.

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☆ Twitter employees are flocking to social media to share news that they have been laid off, posting tributes to staff, pictures of colleagues, and some critiques of Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Dozens of employees posted on Twitter that they've been laid off, including people in managerial and leadership roles. Twitter sent an email to its staff on Thursday, confirming that some staff would be laid off "in an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path." Affected staff would receive an email on their personal email by 9 a.m. West Coast time on Friday, Twitter said. Dozens of employees posted on Twitter that they had been laid off, in many cases using the hashtags #OneTeam and #LoveWhereYouWorked, as well as blue heart and salute emojis. Below is a selection of tweets sent by employees laid off by Twitter:Some posted pictures of themselves with their teams, in the office, or with Twitter merchandise.

☆ Elon Musk has been taking digs at AOC and cracking jokes while thousands of Twitter employees grappled with looming layoffs and sent each other well-wishes
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk started fights with celebrities and cracked jokes as thousands of Twitter staff waited for layoff notices. Twitter employees shared heartfelt farewells on Slack and across social media over the past few days. Twitter employees have received zero communication from Musk since he took over the company. After a week of zero communication with Twitter employees from leadership following Musk's takeover, staff received a memo on Thursday confirming that layoffs would commence on Friday. Meanwhile, Twitter staff was flooding the company's Slack channels with heart emojis and salutes, tech newsletter writer Casey Newton reported.

A former Miss Argentina and an ex-Miss Puerto Rico announced on Instagram over the weekend that they are married. The video included in their post features a montage of them traveling, their candlelit marriage proposal and a kiss outside a courthouse in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Varela, 26, and Valentín, 22, appear to have met last March, when they competed in the Miss Grand International beauty pageant in Thailand. !” And Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2017 Danna Hernández commented, “Beautiful couple congratulations and blessings on your marriage!!! Same-sex marriage has been legal in Puerto Rico since 2015 as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges.

☆ Stars pay tribute to Takeoff on social media
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The tragic shooting death of rapper Takeoff has prompted several stars to take to social media to honor the fallen artist. Takeoff, who was part of the successful group Migos, died early Tuesday morning after shots were fired at a Houston, Texas bowling and pool hall. Ja Rule aired his grievances surrounding Takeoff’s violent death on Twitter, writing, “this sh*t has to STOP… sending love to friends and family”. Gucci Mane, who recently collaborated with Takeoff on the track “Us vs. Them,” wrote on Instagram, “This broke my heart” upon learning the news. Kelly Rowland shared an Instagram Story in which she exclaimed, “There are NO WORDS” over a news snippet about Takeoff’s death.

☆ How to better your employee experience to avoid a staff of quiet quitters
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Slack With Insider Studios | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A September 2022 poll by Gallup found that "quiet quitters make up at least 50% of the US workforce." For some employers, the concept of quiet quitting might stoke fears of disengaged workers doing the bare minimum. Lead with empathyConsidering how employees' time should be prioritized will help you decide how your team needs to work together. Eliminate meeting fatigueMeeting fatigue is real, and at Slack, we believe there are better ways to communicate than back-to-back meetings. To streamline tasks and free up time for the work that's actually part of your job description, teams turn to Slack workflows.

☆ An antitrust battle over GIFs could be a wake-up call for Silicon Valley
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But a long-running legal battle over who can control access to them, culminating this week in a rare defeat for Meta (META), the parent of Facebook, could have major ramifications for Big Tech regulation. On Tuesday, UK regulators forced Meta to unwind its 2020 purchase of Giphy, one of the largest searchable internet libraries of GIFs. “The Citadel may have been breached,” said Joel Mitnick, an antitrust attorney at the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. The company said this week that it will continue to explore acquisitions despite the UK ruling. And US courts don’t typically take foreign antitrust rulings into account; their job is to interpret US law.

☆ Why the 'Amazonification' of startups isn't always a good thing
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Plus, we've got news on actual robots, who are threatening to pit humans against machines. That's not always a good thing. Companies love to hire Amazon alumni who inject their firms with Jeff Bezos' metrics-focused style. Amazon-trained leaders (sometimes known as "Jeff Bots") have founded more than 650 startups, and swaths have joined the industry's top C-suites, contributing to the "Amazonification" of said firms. Now, humans need to determine how to synchronize our labor with the souls of new machines — before things get out of hand.

☆ Remote work didn't erase the risk of sexual harassment in corporate America. It made it more difficult to police, HR leaders say.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Shana Lebowitz | Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Sexual harassment might become a bigger threat to the well-being of US workers, HR pros say. Harassment hasn't gone away because of the #MeToo movement or because of the pandemic and remote work, Driver, the chief HR officer at the cybersecurity company Exabeam, said. "The #MeToo movement didn't have time to mature," Alexandra Zea, a client partner and team lead at the HR consultancy Leapgen, said. Remote work changed harassment — it didn't eliminate the riskMaggie Smith, who has more than two decades of experience in HR, said she'd noticed some employers getting complacent around harassment. Some workers aren't aware that these behaviors can constitute harassment, Driver said, so they don't report the incidents.

☆ Following Google, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg takes aim at the green and blue bubbles of Apple's iMessage
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Zuckerberg is trying to put WhatsApp above Apple's iMessage on interoperability and privacy. He posted a photo of a billboard ad from Facebook that jokes about iMessage limitations that make Android messages show up in green bubbles, while iPhone texts appear in blue bubbles. Apple CEO Tim Cook has resisted making iMessage more interoperable with Android phones because the technical difficulties help sell more iPhones. In an update to its iOS, Apple prompted its more than 1.6 billion device users to opt-out of being tracked by apps. It's not the first time Zuckerberg has attempted to come for Apple's business since it enacted its privacy changes.

☆ These are the emojis you should stop using at work now
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

'Emoji nuance' exists in the workplace and Gen Z professionals are starting to point it out on social media. Career coach says the best use of emojis at work is to 'enhance, not replace' words in a message. But HR expert and Gen Z-er Kevon Martin advised sticking with basic happy or sad face emojis to avoid any misinterpretation. Jordan Hart/InsiderCareer coach Sue Reynolds published a TikTok video advising how and with whom to use emojis while at work. Millennials and up use it frequently and Gen Z believes it to be uncool.

☆ Twitter’s future isn’t just Elon Musk’s problem
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-06 | by ( John Foley | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Buying Twitter is financially onerous, too, but compared with buying a bank, it’s pretty simple stuff. Social media companies, conversely, are a place where people tweet poop emojis and exchange cat GIFs. Congress isn’t blind to the legal vacuum in which large social media companies operate. But while politicians squabble, social media continues to shape society in ways that may only become apparent years later. In a tweet later that day, the Tesla chief said that buying Twitter would accelerate the creation of X, an "everything app."

☆ What is rainbow fentanyl? Colorful pills drive new warnings
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Jacqueline Howard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

"Colored fentanyl pills have been around for a few years. At the time, the agency said that it and its law enforcement partners seized the brightly colored fentanyl and fentanyl pills across 18 states. While he and his colleagues are aware of rainbow fentanyl warnings, he hasn't heard any patients or parents mention it. When it comes to rainbow fentanyl, "the fentanyl itself is going to be the same issue as the counterfeit pharmaceutical fentanyl. The only difference between rainbow fentanyl and the fentanyl products of the past appears to be the coloring.

Starting in 2012, the year Mr. Putin retook the presidency, Roskomnadzor built a blacklist of websites that the companies were required to block. In 2021, authorities throttled access to the social media service to a crawl. It gathered information about government critics and identified shifting political opinions on social media. watch opponents and identify new threats to Mr. Putin, Mr. Voronin said. In the records, censors flagged ProUfu.ru for the critical Ukraine editorial written about Mr. Putin in February.

QAnon conspiracy theory videos with thinly veiled hashtags are bringing in millions of views on TikTok ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. The findings come as former President Donald Trump is ramping up his public support of the conspiracy theory. The top video on the hashtag — one of dozens related to the QAnon conspiracy theory — is explicitly pro-QAnon and was posted just five days ago. In July 2020, TikTok attempted to address the growth of QAnon hashtags on their platform by banning a selection of them. In October 2020, the company said it was expanding the ban to all videos on the platform that advance ideas from the conspiracy theory movement.

With iOS 16, you can insert and send an emoji using Siri by saying the name of the emoji you want, like "grinning face emoji." Emojis can be inserted into any iPhone app that supports dictating text with Siri. It's no surprise, then, that Apple would eventually allow you to send emojis with Siri. Starting with iOS 16, anywhere you can dictate text using Siri, you can verbally insert emojis. How to insert and send emojis with Siri on an iPhoneInserting an emoji into text using Siri is very simple and straightforward.

☆ Wall Street is on a knife's edge until Jay Powell speaks
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Analysis Allison Morrow | Cnn Business | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Financial markets are on a knife's edge, and have been for weeks, as they await word from the central bank on how much monetary tightening to expect. On Monday, Wall Street vacillated between slight gains and losses , effectively in a holding pattern while investors awaited word from the Silver Fox himself, Mr. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Hayden Powell. Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee in July. Of course, emoticons became emoji (style note: the plural of emoji is emoji), and our text conversations added a new layer of meaning. Like, check this out:OK, fine 😂OK, fine 😔OK, fine 🙃OK, fine 🙄...You get the idea.

☆ Wall Street is on a knife’s edge until Jay Powell speaks
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Financial markets are on a knife’s edge, and have been for weeks, as they await word from the central bank on how much monetary tightening to expect. On Monday, Wall Street vacillated between slight gains and losses, effectively in a holding pattern while investors awaited word from the Silver Fox himself, Mr. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Hayden Powell. Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee in July. Of course, emoticons became emoji (style note: the plural of emoji is emoji), and our text conversations added a new layer of meaning. Like, check this out:OK, fine 😂OK, fine 😔OK, fine 🙃OK, fine 🙄…You get the idea.

☆ Lea Michele mocks rumor that she’s illiterate
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Lea Michele has leaned into being a “Funny Girl.”The star of the Broadway show decided to have a bit of fun with the continuing online conspiracy theory that she never learned to read or write. Michele recently joined TikTok while on a break from playing Fanny Brice after testing positive for Covid-19. Her second posted video mocks the rumor that she is illiterate. Michele recently told the New York Times she believed the rumor about her was sexist, pointing out that she went to her hit show “Glee” every day. And then there’s a rumor online that I can’t read or write?,” she said.

☆ The 40-year evolution from :-) to 😂 emojis
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The evolution from : - ) to 😂It didn’t take long for the original emoticon and its many variations to spread beyond Carnegie Mellon. This emoji remains the favorite among US users, according to an Adobe study released this month. The consortium relies on subcommittee members and emoji users to push the keyboard forward. Daniel, the first woman to run Unicode’s Emoji Subcommittee and a designer at Google, has been a champion for more inclusive emojis. While there are now thousands of emoji options, the main usage remains loyal to the original goal 40 years ago of adding a smile and some levity.

Ron DeSantis sent two planes of mostly Venezuelan asylum-seekers to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, advertising executive Max Lefeld slammed the move as a political stunt. A group of migrants huddle on a sidewalk in front of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. The divisions largely fall along political lines, with Venezuelan Republicans defending DeSantis and Democrats blasting the move. Venezuelan migrants often cross the perilous Darien Gap in the Colombia-Panama border and then make their way north across Central America. Now many Venezuelans are divided, with Republicans defending DeSantis’ move to send Venezuelans to Martha’s Vineyard and Democrats condemning it.

☆ Anti-vaxxers evaded social-media content bans by replacing the word 'vaccine' with a carrot emoji, BBC investigation finds
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

One large Facebook group used the carrot emoji to replace the word vaccine, per the BBC. The shot glass emoji was also used to replace the word "shot" and disparage vaccines. Per the BBC, several social media groups were using the emoji as a code for the word "vaccine." He said in a Twitter thread on Sunday the carrot emoji symbol was used to replace the word vaccine "presumably to evade censorship. Turqay Melikli/Getty imagesThe BBC flagged the group using the emojis as code to Facebook's parent company Meta, which took them down.

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