reader comments 98 with 57 posters participating Share this story A hack on police servers in China’s Xinjiang region has yielded thousands of graphic images and videos of Uighur detainees suffering in detention camps in one of the starkest accounts yet of the ongoing humanitarian crisis caused by the country’s persecution of ethnic minorities. The ..
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Enlarge / Tesla cars in a lot at the company’s factory in Fremont, California. Getty Images | Justin Sullivan reader comments 146 with 81 posters participating Share this story Tesla can’t force a woman who sued the company over sexual harassment into arbitration, a judge ruled on Monday. Jessica Barraza sued Tesla in November 2021 ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 157 with 75 posters participating Share this story The Florida law that makes it illegal for large social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to ban politicians likely violates the First Amendment, according to a unanimous ruling by a panel of three federal appeals court judges. The ruling, released ..
Enlarge / Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021, in Washington, DC. Getty Images | Drew Angerer reader comments 383 with 167 posters participating Share this story With tech groups asking the US Supreme Court to block the new Texas law against social media “censorship,” the state’s defense ..
Chris Delmas/Getty Images reader comments 195 with 92 posters participating Share this story Since the financial crisis, corporate lawyers have aspired to build the ultimate ironclad merger contract that keeps buyers with cold feet from backing out. The “bulletproof” modern deal agreement now faces one of its biggest tests, as Elon Musk, the Tesla boss ..
Enlarge / The Twitter logo is seen at the company’s headquarters on April 26, 2022, in downtown San Francisco, California. Getty Images | Amy Osborne reader comments 157 with 78 posters participating, including story author Share this story With Elon Musk waffling on his commitment to buy Twitter for $44 billion, Twitter’s board of directors ..
Enlarge / The US Supreme Court building. Getty Images | Grant Faint reader comments 366 with 158 posters participating Share this story Big Tech lobby groups have asked the US Supreme Court to block a Texas state law that prohibits social media companies from moderating content based on a user’s “viewpoint.” The state’s so-called “censorship” ..
reader comments 319 with 109 posters participating Share this story Twitch, the Amazon-owned livestreaming site that caters primarily to gamers, said it removed streamed footage of a shooting in Buffalo, New York, this weekend “less than two minutes after the violence started.” An 18-year-old white man used an assault rifle to fire on crowds of ..
Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 490 with 193 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk today said his deal to purchase Twitter is “temporarily on hold” while he awaits details on the number of spam and fake accounts on the site, but he later added that he remains “committed” to the acquisition. “Twitter ..
R.Tsubin / Getty reader comments 237 with 113 posters participating, including story author Share this story The price of one Bitcoin briefly fell below $27,000 on Thursday morning, the lowest price for the cryptocurrency since 2020. The world’s leading virtual currency bounced back later in the day and now trades at $28,600. But that’s still ..
