Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Thursday.
- $4. The posts presented a new challenge for Facebook and Twitter, which have struggled with how to properly moderate the president's posts.
- $4. "We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice by giving them free promotion on Discover," a company representative said.
- $4. Trump's campaign did not explain how the company's action against the president's account could have broken the law.
- $4. The letter urges Facebook's leadership to take action by fact-checking politicians and labeling harmful posts.
- $4. The lawsuit alleges that employees were pressured to keep working, meet "oppressive and dangerous" quotas that kept them from following social distancing guidelines, and punished for speaking out about working conditions.
- $4. Amazon has now phased out two major policies brought in to protect workers, the other being that they could take unlimited amounts of unpaid time off without being penalized.
- $4. Damian Collins, former chair of the UK's Department for Culture, Media and Sport select committee, has formally called on officials to publish details of the government contract with Palantir in full.
- $4. An activist employee group challenged the company asking how many police contracts it still had.
- $4. The fund is meant to encourage diversity in the overwhelmingly-white world of venture capital and startups, and its creation comes amid protests across the US against racism and police brutality.
- $4. It also doubled its revenue guidance for the year to $1.8 billion, though some on Wall Street think that that estimate may not have gone far enough.
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