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2023-03-04: News Headlines

Labor Video Project (2023-03-04). Facebook Unite Here Local 19 Workers Demand Justice From Billionaire Owner Zuckerberg. indybay.org One hundred Facebook service food workers who are members of Unite HERE 19 were layed off at Facebook in Menlo Park. Although engineers and others are getting severance Facebook and it's owner Mark Zuckerberg refuse to give these benefits to these service workers. Workers rallied outside Facebook headquarters on March 1, 2023.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-03-04). Tech Layoffs Expose Capitalism. orinocotribune.com By Otis Grotewohl — Feb 20, 2023 | High-tech companies are laying off workers at record levels. More than 93,000 tech positions have been eliminated this year, and it is only the second month. These cuts include 6,650 job losses announced by Dell and the layoff of 1,300 Zoom employees in early February. (crunchbase.com, Feb. 15, 2023) | The abrupt reduction of high-tech positions started last fall. Amazon, Lyft and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, unleashed major cuts against their workforce in November. Twitter slashed several thousand jobs one month prior. Both the app company Robinhood and Snap, the…

Staff (2023-03-04). El arma secreta de YouTube para volver a conquistar a los creadores: grandes mejoras con inteligencia artificial. cubadebate.cu Google y YouTube, según datos de SimilarWeb, son los dos sitios web más visitados del mundo. Estos auténticos reyes de Internet son escoltados solo por otro gigante de la red como lo es Facebook, de Meta. øQué tienen en común estas tres plataformas? Sus empresas matrices están haciendo lo posible para no perder la posición que han conseguido.

Staff (2023-03-04). Venezuela: Jorge Rodríguez Criticizes Inadequate Infrastructure for Disabled People. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, March 2, the president of Venezuela's National Assembly, Deputy Jorge Rodríguez, urged the deputies to exercise the function of comptroller of the laws enacted for the benefit of all the Venezuelan people. | Rodríguez entered the Federal Legislative Palace's session chamber in a wheelchair due to a temporary disability in his left leg. He shared on social media that he was there to "do his job," but no further information was provided about the cause of his temporary disability. | Rodríguez called on the members of the National Assembly in the absence of ramps and other measures and devices that allo…

Ariadna Eljuri (2023-03-03). Colombia: President Petro Asks Prosecutor's Office to Investigate Brother and Eldest Son. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, March 2, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, requested that the Prosecutor's Office begin investigations against his brother, Juan Fernando Petro Urrego, and his eldest son, Nicolás Petro Burgos, aimed at examining rumors about an alleged plot in which some lawyers, claiming to speak on behalf of the government, attempt to extort incarcerated citizens seeking to join the Petro government's "total peace" policy. | "Last August 7, I made a commitment to Colombian men and women," Petro said in a statement published via social media. "I have a responsibility to be loyal to the vote that many of y…

Labor Video Project (2023-03-04). Facebook Unite Here Local 19 Workers Demand Justice From Billionaire Owner Zuckerberg. indybay.org One hundred Facebook service food workers who are members of Unite HERE 19 were layed off at Facebook in Menlo Park. Although engineers and others are getting severance Facebook and it's owner Mark Zuckerberg refuse to give these benefits to these service workers. Workers rallied outside Facebook headquarters on March 1, 2023.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-03-04). Tech Layoffs Expose Capitalism. orinocotribune.com By Otis Grotewohl — Feb 20, 2023 | High-tech companies are laying off workers at record levels. More than 93,000 tech positions have been eliminated this year, and it is only the second month. These cuts include 6,650 job losses announced by Dell and the layoff of 1,300 Zoom employees in early February. (crunchbase.com, Feb. 15, 2023) | The abrupt reduction of high-tech positions started last fall. Amazon, Lyft and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, unleashed major cuts against their workforce in November. Twitter slashed several thousand jobs one month prior. Both the app company Robinhood and Snap, the…

Staff (2023-03-04). El arma secreta de YouTube para volver a conquistar a los creadores: grandes mejoras con inteligencia artificial. cubadebate.cu Google y YouTube, según datos de SimilarWeb, son los dos sitios web más visitados del mundo. Estos auténticos reyes de Internet son escoltados solo por otro gigante de la red como lo es Facebook, de Meta. øQué tienen en común estas tres plataformas? Sus empresas matrices están haciendo lo posible para no perder la posición que han conseguido.

Staff (2023-03-04). Venezuela: Jorge Rodríguez Criticizes Inadequate Infrastructure for Disabled People. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, March 2, the president of Venezuela's National Assembly, Deputy Jorge Rodríguez, urged the deputies to exercise the function of comptroller of the laws enacted for the benefit of all the Venezuelan people. | Rodríguez entered the Federal Legislative Palace's session chamber in a wheelchair due to a temporary disability in his left leg. He shared on social media that he was there to "do his job," but no further information was provided about the cause of his temporary disability. | Rodríguez called on the members of the National Assembly in the absence of ramps and other measures and devices that allo…

Ariadna Eljuri (2023-03-03). Colombia: President Petro Asks Prosecutor's Office to Investigate Brother and Eldest Son. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, March 2, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, requested that the Prosecutor's Office begin investigations against his brother, Juan Fernando Petro Urrego, and his eldest son, Nicolás Petro Burgos, aimed at examining rumors about an alleged plot in which some lawyers, claiming to speak on behalf of the government, attempt to extort incarcerated citizens seeking to join the Petro government's "total peace" policy. | "Last August 7, I made a commitment to Colombian men and women," Petro said in a statement published via social media. "I have a responsibility to be loyal to the vote that many of y…

Staff (2023-03-03). Washington Extends Executive Sanction Order Against Venezuela, Caracas Responds. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, March 2, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejected the Venezuelan minister for foreign affairs, Yván Gil, stated via social media that with the renewal of the Executive Order, Biden's administration ext…

Staff (2023-03-04). Desmienten noticias falsas sobre cierre de la oficina de legalización de documentos del Minrex. cubadebate.cu Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, director general de Asuntos Consulares y Atención de Cubanos Residentes en el Exterior, desmintió hoy noticias falsas relacionadas con un supuesto cierre de la oficina de legalización de documentos del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba (Minrex). Según explicó el funcionario en Twitter, el proceso se realiza de manera habitual.

Matt Taibbi (2023-03-03). Twitter Files: GEC, New Knowledge, and State-Sponsored Blacklists. globalresearch.ca

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