Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For example, a 2011 Alabama law called HB-56 directed local police officers to investigate the immigration status of drivers stopped for speeding. That law and its resulting effects prompted some Alabama-based immigrant workers to leave the state following workplace raids. billion to $10.8

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

But Shopify doesn’t really fit into the same category of laws as Twitter or Facebook or other social media platforms — so it has a different set of moderation challenges, and it’s worth thinking about whether the enterprise software that powers online stores should have to meet the same moderation standards as TikTok or YouTube.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

As Leah Nylen noted in that report: “Alabama is now the only state that is not investigating the company.”. Here’s a map of more than 400 hyperpartisan sites masquerading as local news. The company also said workers wouldn’t be disciplined for falling short of quotas based on how many tasks they complete each hour. Industry. ?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

Shes also a 2020 MacArthur Fellow for environmental health advocacy and, in 2011, worked with the United Nations special rapporteur to expose environmental injustices in Lowndes County, Alabama, where she grew up, and across the southern U.S. I think about Alabama. Is there hope for state or local action? Last week, U.S.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

TikTok says NBA content may not have appeared in those searches due to issues with language and localization, but were not actively removed from the platform.) Alabama is now the only state that is not investigating the company. Stylistically, they’re laws. Jim Tankersley / New York Times ). The Hill ).

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

For now, Priesters will have to stick to its famous pecans in Fort Payne, Alabama. Priesters Pecans, an Alabama staple, is one of more than half a dozen sites across the state slated to receive millions of dollars in federal funding to expand access to chargers for electric vehicles. But maybe not for long. But in a Feb.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

You’ll carve away Section 230, the law that says platforms aren’t liable for what users publish, you’ll do algorithmic transparency, you’ll make them audit every content moderation decision they make. Because it was always localized or territorial at some level with telecom, and that territorial perspective is being decimated right now.

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