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Tesla workers in New York are attempting to start a union, which would be a first for the electric car company run by Elon Musk. They wrote a letter to the company explaining the plans and asking leaders to agree on ground rules for a “fair” union election. Mr. Musk has opposed organizing efforts at his company, but he has not said anything about this. Organizers say about 2,000 people work at the plant in Buffalo. Workers United, the union that helped start the recent surge in unionization at Starbucks, is behind the campaign. In a press release, the Buffalo workers said, “We are organizing a union with Workers United in Upstate New York that looks as innovative as Tesla,  the company we work for, and to build a  collaborative environment that will strengthen the company.” Campaigners say that the organizing committee comprises some of the roughly 800 analysts in Buffalo who work on Tesla’s autopilot systems. They hope to work with other people at the facility, such as people...

Since Elon Musk stormed into Twitter headquarters in San Francisco three months ago, the company has hardly been out of the news. We’ve talked about what he thinks about the social network and some of his more controversial business moves, like letting go of half the staff. But we haven’t talked as much about how the 237 million people who use the platform every month have changed since he took over. Stopping alternative ways to use Twitter The most recent change is that Twitter stopped letting other platforms use its API to talk to it. If you use a social media manager to check your Twitter account instead of the Twitter app or website, you might find that Twitter doesn’t work with it right now. It needs to be clarified if the move was done on purpose, but many experts think it was… Read More Source:  California Observer

  Twitter owner Elon Musk said that since he took over, “hate speech impressions” had dropped a lot on the site since he took over. It was a surprising claim, given that Musk has fired hundreds of people and forced them to leave. Musk has also publicly criticized the company’s rules about content moderation and taken away resources that the company needed. T wo watchdog groups conducted research on Friday that showed Musk’s false claim. The research gave one of the clearest pictures of the rising rate of hate speech on the platform. In reports, both the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Anti-Defamation League said that the amount of hate speech on Twitter had grown a lot while Musk was in charge. In particular, the Center for Countering… Read More Source —  California Observer