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2022-12-24: News Headlines

Staff (2022-12-24). Meta pagará 725 millones para resolver demanda sobre intercambio de datos con Cambridge Analytica. cubadebate.cu La empresa matriz de Facebook, Meta Platforms, pagará 725 millones de dólares para resolver una demanda colectiva interpuesta en 2018, en la que se acusa a la compañía de compartir datos de los usuarios con la firma británica de investigación de mercados Cambridge Analytica.La compañía tuvo acceso a los datos de hasta 87 millones de usuarios de la red social.

| Reuters | (2022-12-24). Iran Supreme Court accepts rapper Yasin's appeal against death sentence. tribune.com.pk Iran's Supreme Court has accepted the death sentence appeal of rapper Saman Seydi Yasin even as it confirmed a death sentence against another protestor, the country's judiciary said on Saturday. | Yasin, a Kurd who raps about inequality, oppression and unemployment, had been accused of attempting to kill security forces, setting a rubbish bin on fire and shooting three times into the air, charges which he denied. | Yasin's mother last week pleaded in a video for help to save her son. "Where in the world have you seen a loved one's life is taken for a trash bin?" she said in the video posted on social media.

LaborFest (2022-12-24). "Ticket To Mars" Concert At Elon's Twitter San Francisco Headquarters: Oligarchs Gone Wild. indybay.org The first "Get Your Ticket To Mars" concert took place at Elon Musk's Twitter headquarters on December 18, 2022. Musicians, poets, tech and labor organizers spoke and artists painted a mural on the side of the building.

Julia Conley (2022-12-24). Protesters: "No Democracy With Oligarchy" at Twitter HQ. indybay.org Dozens of artists, labor advocates, and climate campaigners answered a call from Climate Justice Arts on Sunday, arriving at Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco to paint the company's famed bird logo on the street outside along with pro-democracy messages.

Leon Kunstenaar (2022-12-24). Folk Songs, Street Mural and Tickets to Mars at Twitter Protest. indybay.org Twitter accused of "No Free Speech" and oligarchy…

| Reuters | (2022-12-23). Facebook parent Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica case for $725 million. tribune.com.pk Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users' personal information. | The proposed settlement, which was disclosed in a court filing late on Thursday, would resolve a long-running lawsuit prompted by revelations in 2018 that Facebook had allowed the British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to access data of as many as 87 million users. | Lawyers for the plaintiffs called the proposed settlement the largest to ever be achieved in a…

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2022-12-23). Suing Meta-Facebook in Kenya High Court. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2022-12-23). Celebran en Cuba aniversario 63 de la diplomacia revolucionaria. cubadebate.cu En Twitter, el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, señaló que esta forma de ejercer la política exterior reafirma el compromiso de servir con lealtad a la Patria y al heroico pueblo cubano y de defender su Revolución. Rodríguez Parrilla envió afectuosas felicitaciones a los trabajadores del Minrex.

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