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Slashdot: Leaked Amazon Memo Reveals Anti-Union PR Idea: Score Points by Hiring Former Inmates

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Slashdot News for nerds, stuff that matters  Leaked Amazon Memo Reveals Anti-Union PR Idea: Score Points by Hiring Former Inmates Aug 1st 2022, 04:46, by EditorDavid Someone leaked an internal Amazon memo to Vox's Recode. The May 2021 memo "offers rare insights into the anti-union strategies of one of the world's most powerful companies," Recode writes: The memo laid out two crucial goals for Amazon: establish and deepen

Slashdot: Meta Cuts Funding for US News Publishers

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Slashdot News for nerds, stuff that matters  Meta Cuts Funding for US News Publishers Aug 1st 2022, 02:44, by EditorDavid Engadget writes that "After Meta's revenue shrank for the first time in its history, the company has reportedly told publishers it will no longer pay for content to run in Facebook's News Tab, according to Axios." Axios notes it's the end of three-year deals Facebook brokers in 2019 with news pub