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Between COVID-19 and various efforts across the country to make it downright difficult to vote, the challenges of voting are becoming increasingly obvious. Following the lead of major retails, US tech giants like Twitter and Salesforce are giving their employees Election Day off in order to vote. According to Business Insider, rideshare company Uber is giving employees the day off as part of their 'Get Out the Vote' effort. Uber is providing links to voter registration sites through its app, and will assist in getting voters to the polls on election day. Other companies, like Apple and Facebook, are encouraging employees to volunteer to be poll workers.
The Rock recently went to Facebook to vent his frustration with certain male coworkers on the latest Fast and the Furious set. Speculation is, his beef is with Vin Diesel!
Brussels, Jan 19 (EFE), (Camera: EFE).- Large technology companies have gained unprecedented political and economic power which the European Union aims to regulate thanks to two laws, but digital companies invest millions in pressing to subvert the legislation to their favour.Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple spent more than 19 million euros on "lobbies" in 2019, according to data collected by EU Integrity Watch. SOUNDBITES OF MARGARIDA SILVA, RESEARCHER AT CORPORATE EUROPE OBSERVATORY ; AND VICTOR TEIXEIRA, EU POLITICAL INTEGRITY COORDINATOR AT TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL EU.
Jordan Nabigon is the CEO of the content curation site Shared. He was a big Facebook customer, spending nearly $46 million in ads on the site. That is, until the platform booted him without warning or explanation. According to Business Insider, Facebook says Shared violated the site's terms and conditions. However, it wouldn't explain what the violations were. Nabigon says several of Shared's pages have been unpublished since October 26, taking 21 million of the company's followers with them. He added that Facebook gave him no warning that they could or would unpublish his pages, and that Facebook told him the decision was final. Business Insider reports Facebook has also locked Nabigon out of his personal account.