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BEIJING — Police beat workers protesting over a pay dispute at the biggest factory for Apple’s iPhone, whose new model is delayed by controls imposed as China tries to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases.Foxconn 2354, +0.10%, the biggest contract assembler of smartphones and other electronics, is struggling to fill orders for the iPhone 14 after thousands of employees walked away from the factory in the central city of Zhengzhou last month following complaints about unsafe working conditions. China’s status as an export powerhouse is based on factories such as Foxconn’s that assemble the world’s consumer electronics, toys and other goods. The ruling Communist Party is trying to contain the latest wave of outbreaks without shutting down factories and the rest of its economy as it did in early 2020. Its tactics include “closed-loop management,” under which workers live in their factories with no outside contact. Foxconn offered higher pay to attract more workers to the Zhengzhou factory to assemble the iPhone 14, which sells starting at $799 in the United States.  » Read More

FILE – The Facebook logo is seen on a cell phone on Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston. A Washington state judge on Wednesday, Oct. 26, fined Facebook parent company… FILE – The Facebook logo is seen on a cell phone on Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston. A Washington state judge on Wednesday, Oct. 26, fined Facebook parent company Meta nearly $25 million for repeatedly and intentionally violating campaign finance disclosure law, in what is believed to be the largest campaign finance penalty in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File) by: Allison Bruhl Posted: Nov 23, 2022 / 08:10 AM CST Updated: Nov 23, 2022 / 08:10 AM CST BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning Facebook users of buy-and-sell scams on the social media platform. How the scam works, according to BBB: “You are scrolling through Facebook, and a gut-wrenching post about an injured, lost pet or a missing child grabs your attention. You want to help, so you share the post on your own profile.  » Read More

Meta's Layoffs in Texas Are Part of a Broader Plan to Slash 11,000 Employees CompanywideFacebook parent company Meta announced it would layoff 222 employees from its offices in Austin, Texas, including 154 people at 300 W. Sixth St. (CoStar)A California-based tech company that planned a major expansion in the Austin area at the end of 2021 has, almost one year later, announced it will be laying off employees working at its Central Texas offices.This news story is available exclusively to CoStar subscribers.Watch the video to learn how you can access industry leading CRE news and the data analytics you need to drive success.This news story is available exclusively to CoStar subscribers.Ready to Learn More?Sign Up For a Personalized Demo.Sign Up For a Demo To Learn More.  » Read More

This was… unexpected, Today, Meta has released its latest Widely Viewed Content Report for Facebook, covering Q3 2022, which, for the first time, isn’t riddled with data gaps due to some of the most popular posts in the app later being removed by Meta for violating its platform rules. Which is pretty much the opposite of the intended purpose of this report. Meta originally came up with its Widely Viewed Content Report, which shows the most viewed posts and links in the app, as a means to counter the narrative that its algorithms help to amplify right-wing and extremist content - though thus far, it hasn’t really succeeded in showing that this isn’t the case, necessarily. But this time around, in combination with Meta’s effort to reduce political content in people’s Facebook feeds, the most shared and viewed content lists do look a little different, with much less political-related material in the mix. So what are people on Facebook checking out?  » Read More

November 21, 2022 5:43 PM Posted: November 21, 2022 5:43 PM Updated: November 21, 2022 8:58 PM PORTAGE, Wis. — A 15-year-old’s successful hunting experience was literally taken away from him, but thanks to some online sleuthing, the story has a happier ending. Garrett Diehm shot the buck in Columbia County on opening weekend for the nine-day gun-deer hunting season. Diehm’s mother Sarah said the buck was stolen off of their property in the time it took the boy and his family to run back to the house to let his grandparents know. “We went up, took a bunch of pictures with it, went up to my grandparents’ house to get a wagon and supplies to field dress it, my mom used the bathroom, we came back and the buck was gone,” Diehm recalled. “I was just amazed and really mad. I did not think that would happen to us back on our own property way back in the woods where there’s like nobody back there,” he added.  » Read More

Cult leader and convicted child sex offender William Costellia has been released from custody in NSW under resumed supervision orders which he spent a year in jail for breaching.Magistrate Miranda Moody said Costellia knew he was violating the terms of his extended supervision order when he used his wife's Facebook account to send messages despite being banned from social media."Any use is prohibited and he would have known that given the surreptitious way he accessed Facebook," Ms Moody said in Sydney's Downing Centre Court on Tuesday. William Costellia (pictured above in 2005) was released from custody in NSW. (AAP)However, the messages were of a "mundane quality"."There are breaches and there are breaches," Ms Moody said.He pleaded guilty and was released with time served after spending a year and six days on remand.Costellia's supervision order was suspended while he was in custody but will resume upon his release.He was originally placed under the order as a condition of being allowed to return to the South Coast property that serves as a commune for his cult followers.  » Read More

One person has been arrested after an older couple was brutally attacked while leaving an Elton John concert at Dodger Stadium on Thursday night. The fight broke out in the parking lot after two parties were leaving the concert, according to Los Angeles Police Department. The victims were a husband and wife in their 60s, according to TMZ. The video of their attack has since gone viral on social media. It began as a verbal confrontation over an alleged fender bender which eventually turned physical, police said. The older couple was attacked by a group of at least four to six people, an attack which included punching, choking and hair pulling, according to TMZ reports. Video obtained by TMZ shows the husband lying on the ground as a group of men surround him, pushing him down and punching him while he remains on the ground. A large group of bystanders is seen watching and recording the incident. At one point, the wife allegedly hopped out of the car to help her husband but was body-slammed to the ground by the suspects.  » Read More

Kenneth Rhodes II died after a multi-vehicle crash on 2nd and Hill streets. Rhodes' brother, Jalen Davis-Rhodes also died in the crash. Metro United Way posted on Facebook saying the two were brothers and Rhodes was the son of Adria Johnson, the president and CEO of the nonprofit.  » Read More

CNBC's Elizabeth Schulze runs through what government calls to suspend Facebook's encryption push mean for the tech giant.  » Read More

Snap is helping FTC in their Facebook investigation. With CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders, Tim Seymour, Brian Kelly, Steve Grasso ...  » Read More