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California Just Moved to Protect Workers Who Speak Out Against Harassment and Discrimination
Moving to strengthen protections for workers who speak out about harassment and discrimination, even in cases where they’ve signed a non-disclosure agreement, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Silenced No More Act into law on Thursday night.
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TikTok, the Only Social Media Platform Without Stories, Is Getting Stories
As sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, so too is it all but guaranteed in 2021 that social media platforms will eventually test some ill-fated version of Instagram Stories in their feeds. And as of Wednesday, TikTok is no longer the exception: The platform is reportedly experimenting with…
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Huge Chunk of the Internet Goes Offline Thanks to One Company
Large chunks of the internet were offline starting shortly before 8:00 p.m. AEST on Tuesday, including everything from CNN to the British government, in an outage being blamed on Fastly, a content distribution network used by hundreds of high-profile websites. Gizmodo U.S. was also down during this morning’s outage.
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Horseshoe Theory, Now on the Blockchain
U.S. Republicans whining about how social media moderators are violating their inalienable right to lucrative follower counts have found an ally in U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.