X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is facing 2,200 arbitration cases that ex-employees filed after Elon Musk took over the company, slashed headcount, and made other sweeping changes there. The filing fees alone for that volume of cases could amount to $3.5 million.

The arbitration numbers were revealed in a new filing out Monday as part of a lawsuit in a Delaware district court. The case is Chris Woodfield v. Twitter, X Corp. and Elon Musk (No. 1:23-cv-780-CFC).

As CNBC has previously reported, many large corporations require workers to sign an arbitration agreement upon employment wherever it is legal to do so. This means to speak freely in court, where their speech can become part of a public record, workers would first need to get an exemption from a judge.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      551 year ago

      Yes, but it’s about a major tech company, so maybe it fits? NBC filed it in their ‘Tech News’ section.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Musk isn’t going to give you the time of day. You don’t need to defend his website/app.

      • @[email protected]
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        -111 year ago

        I think that’s just more of a rollover from anything on the internet being labeled as ‘tech’, but like nowadays if the president sends a tweet its really not that notable of news, technologically. We could also start reporting every time a text is sent if we really wanted

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          211 year ago

          You’re technically right, which is the best kind of right. It’s a destructive CEO story who just happens to run a tech company (into the ground)

          This is like the Spanish guy kissing the winning footballer woman on the lips against her will. It’s going to be reported under sports, but really it’s a sexism story that just happens to be in sports.

          But at least it is being reported and commented on, no?

          • @[email protected]
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            111 year ago

            Shit you got me there ngl

            Gonna sink back to my linux n self hosting communities in defeat

      • @[email protected]
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        -151 year ago

        It’s a social media company, not a tech company.
        Unless you have a magic list of technology the company is releasing.

        • @TwilightVulpine
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          I don’t see what else one would call their own algorithms and media delivery systems.

          • kirklennon
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            Technology is a means to an end so I like to make the distinction of what the company actually does or make. Apple’s primary business is selling computer hardware (an actual technology product) so it’s a technology company. Microsoft sells software and cloud services (tech tools) so it’s a technology company. Netflix sells access to video, so it’s a media company. Are algorithms involved? Sure, but they’re child’s play compared to the algorithms used by high frequency traders, yet those people still unambiguously work for finance/banking companies. Every large retailer employs data scientists and teams of data analysts, but they’re still retailers rather than tech companies. Amazon is the trickiest to categorize. Amazon.com is a straight up retailer but AWS is clearly a tech “company.” Best to think of that one like a conglomerate.

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              There is no separating one from the other when it comes to social media. What we see, when and where is dictated by the technology behind it.

              Say, by the same logic one might say that Google’s main service is organizing and offering information, but it is still one of the main companies one thinks of when it comes to Technology. Rightfully so, because even putting aside cloud storage and the like, its search engine technology is central to what it offers.

              I think because people are tired of seeing articles related to social media, they want to argue that it’s only technology if it is some sort of device, but that is a simplistic way to see the matter. There’s a merit to say that technology is connected to all sort of fields and purposes today, but that doesn’t make it less of technology, or the companies behind them less technology-focused.

              Social media is technology, and social media companies are a valid topic of discussion in technology communities.

              • kirklennon
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                There’s a merit to say that technology is connected to all sort of fields and purposes today, but that doesn’t make it less of technology, or the companies behind them less technology-focused.

                My contention is that the use of technology is so universal that it’s not meaningful to call a company a technology company just because they use a lot of technology, even if they have to create a lot of it themselves. Pretty much every big company has on-staff software engineers making and implementing custom technology. It takes a lot of technology to make a law firm work but that doesn’t make a law firm a technology company. If we use too-expansive of a definition for what’s a technology company, then it applies to almost every company, making it a useless term.

                I do not think social media companies are technology focused. They just use technology to achieve their social media (/advertising) business goals, the same as every bank, every hospital, every trucking company, etc.

                • @TwilightVulpine
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                  Then you don’t think Google is a Tech company?

                  If you took technology away from banking, hospitals or a law firm, you might still have a business. If you took technology away from social media, you don’t have anything left. It is the focus and the medium.

                  Technologies also do not exist in a vacuum either, they exist for a purpose. The purpose of social media is socialization, as well as advertising and information dissemination.

                  Sure, today anyone can host a Mastodon, but I wouldn’t call that any less technologically-focused.

                  • kirklennon
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                    Then you don’t think Google is a Tech company?

                    Not particularly, no.

                    If you took technology away from social media, you don’t have anything left.

                    I don’t think the mere fact that you access something solely on a website or app makes it a tech company. That’s merely a means to an end. But there’s no more technology involved in running a social media company than there is a modern bank. The technology is actually a lot simpler.

                    Sure, today anyone can host a Mastodon, but I wouldn’t call that any less technologically-focused.

                    I’d say that Mastodon as a software project is technology; the various instances, however, are not.

              • @[email protected]
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                01 year ago

                My microwave uses an insane amount of technology.
                Twitter uses a website an app and advertising.
                There’s a huge difference between those two.

                You can absolutely separate social media companies from general technology. It’s easy. Mostly because all they do is have a website, app, and advertising.

                Why don’t we cover every second of news from microwave companies? One reason would be because they’re so common place, and have been for decades.

                Why do we cover every second of news from social media sites? They’re common place and have been around for decades.

                Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc are just websites. That’s all they are.

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                  “Just websites?”

                  You seriously want to pretend that your microwave has more technology than Facebook does? You think they are just some HTML pages? C’mon…

                  I see you are trying to downplay their complexity with hyperbole, but that just makes you sound silly.

        • @Sanctus
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          Does Twitter make the content or do they serve content via webservers and applications? Sounds like technology to me.

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            Do buses pick you up at the corner or do you get on the bus? Sounds like technology to me.

            A bus is an automobile.
            Twitter is a website.

            • @Sanctus
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              Twitter is a website, and a website is technology lmao

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                Every tool humanity has ever created is technology
                Starting with hammers, axes, arrows, the wheel etc

                • @Sanctus
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                  That you are correct:

                  Technology is the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life or, as it is sometimes phrased, to the change and manipulation of the human environment.

                  According to Britannica.

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          They released Twitter Bootstrap a while ago for “HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions”, to this day, it is hard going to a website that doesn’t integrate in some way it at least once a day. The source code for lemmy.world’s CSS says it is using Bootstrap for example:

          https://lemmy.world/css/themes/litely.css

    • Grammaton Cleric
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      111 year ago

      You could’ve just downvoted and moved on 🙄

        • @demlet
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          51 year ago

          I hereby declare that I’m downvoting all of you.

          Signed,

          Me

          • @Feathercrown
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            51 year ago

            I officially recognize your declaration.

            Signed,

            You

            Wait no oops

    • @money_loo
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      Just more of the same Luddite shit, unfortunately. Seems nobody loves technology more than people who really fucking hate technology.

      • Noxy
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        Just more of the same Luddite shit, unfortunately. Seems nobody loves technology more than people who really fucking hate technology.

        The Luddites were actually based as fuck.

        And yes, a lot of exceptionally skilled engineers really fucking hate technology - a side effect of one’s day to day being deeply entangled in technology.

        • @assassin_aragorn
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          I used to think automation was the coolest thing ever and that everything should be automated.

          After looking at controls for an industrial plant? There are some things I will pay extra to not have automated.