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Several SpaceX employees who were fired after circulating an open letter calling out CEO Elon Musk's behaviour have filed a complaint accusing the company of violating labour laws.The complaint, made Wednesday to the National Labor Relations Board, details the aftermath of what allegedly happened inside SpaceX after employees circulated the letter in June, which, among other things, called on executives to condemn Musk's public behaviour on Twitter — including making light of allegations he sexually harassed a flight…

Photo: NICOLAS ASFOURI (Getty Images)Meta reportedly fired more than a dozen security guards and other workers in the last year after internal investigations revealed they had been selling users’ information and login details to hackers. Some of those who received disciplinary actions were contractors who acquired information from users that were locked out or had trouble with their accounts.The company utilizes a mechanism called “Oops”(Online Operations) to help users access or reset their accounts for Instagram or…

Meta is apparently cracking down on employees who abuse their behind-the-scenes access. The Wall Street Journal sources claim Meta has fired or punished over two dozen workers for hijacking Facebook and Instagram accounts over the past year. Some of the offenders reportedly used Meta's account recovery tool, "Oops," and even took "thousands of dollars" in bribes from outsiders seeking access. The perpetrators included Allied Universal's contracted security guards at Meta locations, according to the sources. The Journal…

A group of former SpaceX employees has filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board, The New York Times reports. The employees say they were fired illegally after putting together a letter that called on the company to strengthen its “zero-tolerance policies” following sexual harassment allegations against Elon Musk.Nine employees were ultimately fired after the letter came out in June, the Times reports, eight of whom filed the charges with federal regulators. The letter, first reported on…

Meta Platforms Inc. META -1.28% has fired or disciplined more than two dozen employees and contractors over the last year whom it accused of improperly taking over user accounts, in some cases allegedly for bribes, according to people familiar with the matter and documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal.Some of those fired were contractors who worked as security guards stationed at Meta facilities and were given access to the Facebook parent’s internal mechanism for…

Eight former SpaceX employees said they were illegally fired for penning a letter criticizing Elon Musk have filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the company, according to The New York Times. If you'll recall, The Times reported back in June that SpaceX fired employees involved in writing an open letter condemning Elon Musk's "harmful Twitter behavior." In particular, they were referencing how the CEO made crude jokes on Twitter about a sexual misconduct accusation against him by a flight attendant for the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSeth Rogen was worried he would be fired after making Steven Spielberg cry on the set of his new film.The actor was recruited by the director to play a character in his new biographical film, titled The Fabelmans.Based on Spielberg’s upbringing, The Fabelmans, also starring Michelle Williams and Paul Dano, sees Rogen play a character inspired by the filmmaker’s uncle.Rogen, who also…

Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who has been laying off employees and contractors of the microblogging platform, has fired yet another member of his Twitter team. The person whose employment was terminated by Musk is an Android developer named Eric Frohnhoefer who had stated in his tweet that Musk's assessment of Twitter being slow as the app is doing "> 1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render timelines," was wrong. A remote procedure call (RPC) allows a program on one computer to a service from a program located on another…

Image Source : AP Twitter boss Elon Musk Twitter: Elon Musk, who has been taking controversial decisions ever since he's become boss of the microblogging site, in another call has fired one of the App developers of Twitter on the platform. This came after Musk highlighted that Twitter App was super slow in many countries.  In a tweet on November 13, Elon Musk wrote,…

At least three Twitter employees who survived the mass layoffs that cut the company's workforce in half have been fired after calling out their new boss on the platform. One of them is Eric Frohnhoefer, who responded to Elon Musk's tweet apologizing for Twitter being slow in many countries. "App is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline!" Musk wrote. Frohnhoefer responded that after six years of working on Twitter for Android, he can say that Musk's statement "is wrong."  The multi-company…