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☆ This Finnish fashion brand has turned old McDonald's uniforms into high-fashion workwear — take a look
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

McDonald's is one of the few visual references that is recognizable to most people in the world, Reinola said. Vain / Sofia Okkonen"That was actually a fascinating idea to work with," she added.

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried had to be 'awakened' by a court official after closing his eyes during his extradition hearing, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Grace Dean | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

SBF had to be "awakened" by a court official after closing his eyes during a hearing, per Reuters. Bankman-Fried was in court in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, on Monday. Last week he had indicated to the court that he wasn't waiving his right to challenge his extradition to the US. The Journal reported that at the hearing, a court official told Bankman-Fried to stand up straight. When asked to stand in court, Bloomberg reported that Bankman-Fried had removed his blue suit jacket, untucked his shirt, and had his sleeves rolled up.

☆ Elon Musk says the US has been 'harmed' by having Elizabeth Warren as a senator after she wrote a scathing letter to Tesla's board
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk has lashed out at Sen. Elizabeth Warren after she wrote a letter to Tesla's board. Musk said on Twitter that the US had been "harmed" by having Warren as a senator. Responding to a Twitter user who posted about the senator's letter, Musk said: "The United States has definitely been harmed by having her as a senator lol." On Sunday, Warren wrote to Tesla's board saying Musk's Twitter takeover had "raised questions about possible violations of securities or other laws." Instead, he responded to a Twitter user who said only Blue subscribers should be able to vote in policy related polls.

☆ Mike Lindell is back on Twitter. From conspiracy theories to attempting to dodge a ban — here's why he was kicked off in the first place.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell had his Twitter account reinstated after Elon Musk's takeover. Lindell was originally suspended for violating Twitter's civic integrity policy, and later for trying to evade the ban. A close ally of Trump, Lindell reportedly offered support and advice to the former president in his final days in office. Evasion banLindell briefly re-emerged on the social-media platform in May after he seemingly created an alternative Twitter account. Since being removed from Twitter, Lindell has also launched his own social media platform, Frank Social, and a streaming platform called Frank Speech.

☆ MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is back on Twitter following the reinstatement of more banned accounts
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

MyPillow's Mike Lindell has returned to Twitter after several more banned accounts were reinstated. Upon his return, the pillow salesman once again called for voting machines to be melted down. The Trump ally continually pedaled baseless theories that voting machines were used to tamper with the results of the 2020 election. Thank you @elonmusk and by the way MELT DOWN THE ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES AND TURN THEM INTO PRISON BARS!" The CEO's first tweet came hours after Musk suspended the Twitter accounts of multiple high-profile journalists.

☆ With a recession looming, layoffs are in full effect. Here are some of the safest and most at-risk jobs, according to economists.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

US employees are worried about their jobs amid a looming recession. Insider spoke to economists to identify some of the safest jobs, and the ones most at risk. The grim economic outlook has caused employee concerns about layoffs to skyrocket, Lauren Thomas, a UK-based economist for Glassdoor told Insider. Insider spoke to labor experts and economists to identify some of the safest and most-at-risk jobs. Olga Rolenko/Getty ImagesConstruction, which relies heavily on borrowed funds, tends to get hit hard early on during a recession, experts told Insider.

☆ Germany heavily criticizes Elon Musk's Twitter for suspending journalists, saying the free press 'must not be switched on and off at will'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The German Foreign Office has warned Twitter about suspending journalists' accounts. Multiple journalists who reported on Elon Musk have been unable to post on the platform. On Thursday, Twitter suspended the accounts of multiple journalists that reported on the platform's new owner, Elon Musk. Wolfgang Buechner, the country's deputy government spokesperson, said in a separate tweet: "Arbitrary locking of journalists' accounts is unacceptable. On Friday, a top European Union official warned Elon Musk about possible Twitter sanctions, following what it described as the platform's "arbitrary suspension of journalists."

☆ Elon Musk joined a Twitter Space with suspended journalists to defend himself — then abruptly left
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter space to defend himself to journalists who had been suspended. Twitter suspended the accounts of multiple journalists who reported on the billionaire. Musk left the space when the journalists tried to question him further about the suspensions. On Thursday, Twitter suspended the accounts of more than six journalists who had reported on the billionaire. According to a recording of the Space shared online, Musk said everyone was, "going to be treated the same."

☆ Elon Musk's allies slam jet tracking as more accounts are suspended and Twitter's privacy policy is updated
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk's mother and a friend have weighed in on his fight against jet tracking. Twitter has suspended an account that tracks Musk's private jet along with similar tracking accounts. Twitter has updated its private information policy to ban users from sharing someone's live location. Sweeney, who runs more than 30 jet tracking accounts, watched as @ElonJet along with his personal Twitter handle was suspended from Twitter on Wednesday. Twitter users can still share their own live location and someone else's historical location as long as it is "not same-day" data.

☆ A Twitter account which tracked Elon Musk's private jet has been suspended, despite Musk saying he wouldn't ban it for 'free speech' reasons
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's private jet was suspended from the platform on Wednesday. The account @elonjet has been suspended today with a message on its profile saying: "Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter Rules." The billionaire CEO tweeted in November that he wouldn't remove the account for "free speech" reasons saying: "My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk." Elon originally offered Sweeney $5,000 to take down the tracking account saying it's a "security risk" and he doesn't "love the idea of being shot by a nutcase." Musk has claimed to be a "free speech absolutist," and recently published his Twitter Files which aims to expose free speech suppression on the platform prior to his takeover.

☆ The head of the legal system in the Bahamas said the US will 'likely' ask for Sam Bankman-Fried's extradition
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The US is "likely" to request Sam Bankman-Fried be extradited to the US, the Bahamas attorney general said. The attorney general indicated the Bahamas intended to extradite Bankman-Fried if requested. The disgraced crypto founder was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday, according to US authorities. The Bahamas attorney general said in the statement that the US had filed criminal charges against Bankman-Fried and was "likely to request his extradition." Representatives for the Bahamas attorney general office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside normal working hours.

☆ Bahamian officials asked Sam Bankman-Fried to mint new crypto coins after FTX had filed for bankruptcy, lawyers claim
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Bahamian officials asked Sam Bankman-Fried to mint new crypto coins as FTX collapsed, US lawyers say. Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday after the US filed criminal charges. The court filing accused Bahamas officials of instructing Bankman-Fried and FTX cofounder Gary Wang to "mint a substantial amount of new tokens." FTX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 11 and Bankman-Fried stepped down as CEO with immediate effect. Tensions between the US team and the Bahamian officials have been escalating in the court filings.

☆ FTX was a 'house of cards' built on a 'foundation of deception,' SEC boss says in scathing statement about Sam Bankman-Fried
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The SEC has accused FTX of being a "house of cards" built on a "foundation of deception," in a statement. The SEC released charges on Tuesday morning, accusing Bankman-Fried of a "years-long" fraud. In its complaint, the SEC announced it had charged the FTX cofounder, Sam Bankman-Fried, with "orchestrating a scheme to defraud" FTX investors. SEC Chair Gary Gensler said in the statement: "We allege that Sam Bankman-Fried built a house of cards on a foundation of deception while telling investors that it was one of the safest buildings in crypto." The director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, Gurbir S. Grewal, accused FTX of operating "behind a veneer of legitimacy" that was created by Bankman-Fried, per the Tuesday press release.

☆ A freelancer is suing Kanye West's Yeezy brand, claiming she was only paid $15,000 of a $110,000 fee for a photoshoot
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A freelance creative director is suing Kanye West's Yeezy brand, claiming she is owed $95,000. Katelyn Mooney says she agreed a $110,000 fee for work she carried out, but has only been paid $15,000. The complaint states Mooney had to take out a loan to cover her rent due to the late payment. The complaint states that Yeezy had not complained about Mooney's work or the final product, but had since only paid her $15,000 of the $110,000 fee she had agreed on with Yeezy employees via text messages. West's Yeezy brand has been plagued with controversy in recent months.

☆ The Twitter account that tracks Elon Musk's private jet has been shadowbanned, its owner says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Twitter user that tracks Elon Musk's private jet says the account has been shadowbanned. Jack Sweeney, the person behind the jet tracking account, ElonJet, took to Twitter on Sunday to accuse the social media platform of suppressing the automated account. Some users had already claimed that they couldn't search or tag the jet tracking account through suggested usernames. Such accounts have become so much of a concern to LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault that he recently sold his private jet and moved to using rental planes to avoid tracking. Musk had previously said he wouldn't ban the Twitter account because of his free-speech commitments.

☆ 'Career cushioning' is the latest workplace trend, seeing employees create a 'Plan B' ahead of a looming recession and job cuts
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The new workplace trend refers to employees creating a professional "Plan B." The panic around job security has replaced a wave of "quiet quitting" with "career cushioning," a new workplace trend that has employees scrambling for a professional "Plan B." "They're using 'career cushioning' as an insurance policy to set themselves up for success should they need to in the future." Cushioning not only gives employees professional security but can also soften the emotional blow of being laid off. For a lot of people, career cushioning is an exercise in building confidence, LinkedIn's Davies said.

☆ Elon Musk says Twitter is working on a feature to show users if they've been shadowbanned
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk wants Twitter users to know if they've been "shadowbanned." The move follows the "Twitter Files", which claimed to show the "secret" suppression of some users. The announcement followed the release of "episode 2" of the "Twitter Files" by conservative commentator Bari Weiss. One of the accounts mentioned in Weiss's Twitter thread was the anti-LGBTQ Twitter account, Libs of TikTok. Thursday's Twitter thread followed a similar release of internal Twitter documents last week by journalist Matt Taibbi.

☆ Elon Musk says Twitter is preparing to delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts to free up dormant handles
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk said Thursday that Twitter will soon delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts. He said this would free up "name space" — dormant Twitter handles attached to the accounts. Users often complain that inactive accounts have desirable handles snared in Twitter's early days. Some Twitter users have complained that inactive accounts have unusual and desirable handles that were snared in Twitter's early days. Musk has previously promised to remove inactive accounts from Twitter.

☆ Indiana is suing TikTok over claims it misled users about child safety and data security
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The lawsuits center on the safety of user data and the treatment of younger users. One of the lawsuits alleges that TikTok promotes content to young users that isn't age-appropriate. One of the lawsuits alleges that TikTok promotes content to young users that isn't age-appropriate, per court documents. The other lawsuit alleged that users' data can be accessed by Chinese authorities. A spokesperson for TikTok told Insider: "The safety, privacy and security of our community is our top priority.

☆ A judge dismissed a crypto promotion lawsuit against celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against celebrities over their role in promoting a crypto token. The lawsuit accused EthereumMax of conspiring with public figures to promote the token. The lawsuit, which was originally filed in January, accused EthereumMax of conspiring with celebrities to promote the EMax token. The judge told investors they could amend the proposed class action and refile it. Representatives for Kardashian and EthereumMax did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.

☆ San Francisco has backtracked on a policy that would have allowed police robots to use deadly force, following backlash
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

San Francisco officials have halted a policy that would have let police robots use deadly force. A final vote on the policy is expected to take place next week, per the San Francisco Chronicle. The new amendment allows San Francisco police to use remote-controlled robots but explicitly bans the use of deadly force, per the San Francisco Chronicle. Per NPR, the first time a robot used deadly force was in 2016 when police in Dallas used one equipped with an explosive. Representatives for San Francisco's Board of Supervisors did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside normal working hours.

☆ Elon Musk defends installing bedrooms at Twitter HQ, saying he's merely 'providing beds for tired employees'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk has defended his decision to install bedrooms in Twitter's San Francisco HQ. Musk said he's simply "providing beds for tired employees." San Francisco has reportedly launched an investigation into the installation of the bedrooms. Twitter employees on Monday discovered some offices and conference rooms at Twitter HQ had bare mattresses and curtains inside, two anonymous people with knowledge of the matter told Forbes. Representatives for Twitter and the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment, made outside normal working hours.

☆ Meta Oversight Board says some Facebook and Instagram users were treated unequally and calls for overhaul of 'cross-check' moderation programme
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Meta's controversial cross-check moderation programme has led to users being treated unequally. The Oversight Board made the comments in a report issued on Tuesday. The board said it found several shortcomings in Meta's cross-check programme, which was designed to improve moderation. To address the issue of content that does not violate policies mistakenly being removed, cross-check aimed to provide "additional layers of human review," according to Meta. However, the Oversight Board said that "by providing extra protection to certain users selected largely according to business interests, cross-check allows content which would otherwise be removed quickly to remain up for a longer period."

☆ An airline told a couple's teenagers to fly from Ireland to Florida alone after it overbooked a flight, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A family traveling from Belfast to Florida via London was reportedly split up after an airline oversold a flight. They were due to fly to London and then onwards to Orlando, but check-in staff told them their Aer Lingus flight from Belfast to London was overbooked. Kitchen told "On Your Behalf" that airport staff told her there was no room for two of the children. We had no say in this decision and that upset me," she told the radio show. They weren't given any flight details – they were just told to go to an Aer Lingus desk," she said.

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried vows to testify before House Committee on Financial Services over FTX collapse when he's 'finished learning and reviewing what happened'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sam Bankman-Fried says he'll testify when he's finished "learning and reviewing what happened." Bankman-Fried addressed his tweet to Rep. Maxine Waters and the US House Committee on Financial Services. Waters had previously invited Bankman-Fried to participate in a hearing on December 13. In a tweet addressed to US Rep. Maxine Waters and the House Committee on Financial Services, the disgraced crypto boss said on Sunday: "Once I have finished learning and reviewing what happened, I would feel like it was my duty to appear before the committee and explain. Representatives for FTX did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside of normal working hours.

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