Tesla is facing a lawsuit from a group of Black employees who say they faced racism and discrimination at the company.
Black Tesla Employees Detail Racist Slurs, Nooses And Swastikas At California Location In Discrimination Trial
Tesla is facing a lawsuit from a group of Black employees who say they faced racism and discrimination at the company.
Immigration agents used racial slurs during LA sweeps, court records show
Records released as part of a lawsuit challenging racial profiling show that immigration agents used slurs to refer to Latino targets.
Report: Tweets with racial slurs soar since Musk takeover
Instances of racial slurs have soared on Twitter since Elon Musk purchased the influential platform, despite assurances from the platform that it had reduced hateful activity, a digital civil rights group reported Thursday.
Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January
Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts
The Definitive Story of Tesla Takedown
In February, a Bluesky post caught the eye of Alex Winter. The result is a coalition of environmentalists, anti-Trump advocates, and federal workers that’s been hyping Tesla’s stock slide ever since.
Elon Musk and X reach settlement with axed Twitter workers
Ex-Twitter staff sued the platform after some 6,000 employees were sacked in 2022.
Wearing All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism, Prosecutors Tell Jury
The case is a major test of the Trump administration's push to label "antifa" protesters as terrorists.
Is Tesla disruptive? — Benedict Evans
Car people often look at Tesla the way Nokia looked at the iPhone. “Nice ideas, but we can easily do all of that, and they don’t understand our industry.” Nokia was wrong - but will the car industry look the same? Maybe not.
Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI of illegal agreement to slow AI
Anthropic CEO acknowledged potential antitrust hurdles, writing that it would assist if the US government were to mediate ‘or at least enable’ cross-lab discussions
Human Rights Concerns at Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory
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Expert: The NAACP is Fighting to Keep Black Communities From Becoming AI’s Collateral Damage – The Root
The Racist Beginnings of Standardized Testing | NEA
From grade school to college, students of color have suffered from the effects of biased testing.
Black family files civil rights complaint alleging 7 years of racial harassment in Illinois school district
A Black family files an Illinois civil rights complaint alleging their three children faced years of racial harassment in District 34.
Seattle Times Journalists Picket Newsroom Over Low Pay and Threats of Being Replaced by AI
Dozens of unionized Seattle Times workers picketed near the newsroom on Denny Way yesterday after they say the newspaper’s owners refused to satisfactorily raise wages or agree not to replace workers with AI during contract negotiations. The picket is the Seattle Times’ first big labor action in decades, and a sign that disagreements between those […]
Can Software Make You Less Racist?
I don’t think we computer geeks appreciate how profoundly the rise of the smartphone, and Facebook, has changed the Internet audience. It’s something that really only happened in the last five years, as smartphones and data plans dropped radically in price and became accessible – and addictive – to huge
Inside Tesla's gigantic Gigafactory
Tesla’s groundbreaking new factory could make or break Elon Musk, the company’s charismatic but under-pressure chief executive.
