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Twitter employees can work from home forever, CEO says
Twitter’s new policy comes as businesses across the nation are struggling to adapt to social distancing guidelines.
Twitter will allow employees to work from home for as long as they want.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told his employees Tuesday that many of them will be allowed to work from home in perpetuity, even after the coronavirus pandemic ends, according to a company spokesperson.
“Opening offices will be our decision,” the spokesperson said. “When and if our employees come back, will be theirs.”
In an email, first obtained by BuzzFeed News, Dorsey said it was unlikely that Twitter would open its offices before September and that all in-person events would be canceled for the remainder of the year.
The company will assess its plans for 2021 events later this year.
“We were uniquely positioned to respond quickly and allow folks to work from home given our emphasis on decentralization and supporting a distributed workforce capable of working from anywhere,” the spokesperson said.
“The past few months have proven we can make that work,” she said. “So if our employees are in a role and situation that enables them to work from home and they want to continue to do so forever, we will make that happen. If not, our offices will be their warm and welcoming selves, with some additional precautions, when we feel it’s safe to return.”
Twitter’s new policy comes as businesses across the nation are struggling to adapt to social distancing guidelines and rethinking how they will operate in a post-pandemic world.
Workers weigh safety and their job in early reopen states
Major tech companies such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft were early to move to a work-from-home model and have also been the most cautious in planning for moving employees back into the office.
Google has told employees that the vast majority of them will work from home until 2021, though some will return in the early summer. Facebook will similarly start to reopen offices after the July 4 weekend but will let employees who are able to work from home do so until next year.
The long-term work-from-home policies of these companies stand in stark contrast to much of the rest of the country, where states are slowly easing lockdown restrictions. Governors in several states, including California, where Twitter, Facebook and Google are based, have already started a phased reopening of their economies.
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Video of Drake kissing 17-year-old girl on stage surfaces
Drake is under fire as a video making the rounds on social media purportedly shows him kissing a girl during one of his performances after she told him she was 17 years old.
In the video, which was tweeted out early Thursday morning, the “In My Feelings” rapper is seen dancing and flirting with a fan on stage.
“I told you I like your hair, right? What is this, like Herbal Essence?” the 32-year-old said before kissing her neck and wrapping his arms around her from behind.
“Ya’ll know I get carried away, I get in trouble for s–t,” he tells the crowd in the video posted by Twitter user @thespookgod and eventually unearthed by the Daily Beast.
He is then heard asking the young fan, “How old are you?” and she replied that she was 17.
When the crowd erupted, a shocked Drake said, “I can’t go to jail yet! Why you gotta look like that? [You’re] thick.”
It is not clear when or where the video was shot.
Since the footage was posted the same night the “Surviving R. Kelly” documentary aired, many Twitter users were quick to make a correlation to Drake’s relationship with 18-year-old model Bella Harris and friendship with 14-year-old actress Millie Bobby Brown.
The video concludes with the rapper saying he didn’t know “if I should feel guilty or not, but I had fun. I like the way your breasts feel against my chest,” he continued, adding, “I just want to thank you.”
He then proceeds to kiss the girl on both of her cheeks, her forehead and then on her lips.
A rep for the rapper didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Kanye says he’s been ‘used’ and is ‘distancing’ himself from politics
Yeezy goes.
The outspoken pro-Trump rapper Kanye West complained on Tuesday that he has been “used” and has decided to leave the political world to focus more on his music and design work.
West, who f
amously held a bizarre meeting with President Trump at the White House, tweeted his vision for a better world while announcing his departure from politics.
“My eyes are now wide open and now realize I’ve been used to spread messages I don’t believe in,” the “Yeezus” rapper wrote.
“I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative !!!”
West, who went on a pro-Trump rant last month while wearing a MAGA hat on “Saturday Night Live,” tried to emphasize his “actual beliefs.”
“I support those who risk their lives to serve and protect us and I support holding people who misuse their power accountable,” he wrote.
“I believe in love and compassion for people seeking asylum and parents who are fighting to protect their children from violence and war.”
West also ripped pundit Candace Owens for putting his name on a project about African-Americans leaving the Democratic party called “Blexit.”
“I never wanted any association with Blexit,” he wrote. “I have nothing to do with it.”
Twitter apologizes to Candace Owens after briefly locking her account
Conservative commentator Candace Owens received an apology from Twitter on Sunday after her account was locked following reports of violations of the social media platform’s rules.
In a brief email shared by Owens on Sunday, Twitter Support said it had restored her account. “BLOWN AWAY by the amount of patriots that just came to my side to make this happen,” Owens tweeted.
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Earlier in the morning, Charlie Kirk said that his fellow Turning Point USA colleague received a 12-hour suspension on Twitter because of a “double standard” against conservatives.
Kirk said Owens “allegedly violated Twitter terms in service” after she copied tweets from Sarah Jeong, the latest addition to the New York Times’ editorial board.
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Rihanna Blocks Fan who photoshopped an Image of Ri Ri as a white woman
Why would any white person in the right mind find it okay to Photoshop a BLACK celebrity making them white then post it to Twitter? I have come to the conclusion that (SOME) white folks REALLY do think LIGHT BRIGHT AND VERY WHITE IS RIGHT;the straighter our hair the better. Rihanna was very insulted by this white fans disrespect needless to say the fan was BLOCKED and she was left wondering what she had done to offend Rihanna.
If you ask me the white bitch doesn’t really care she just an social media attention whore I guess getting any type of attention good, bad and ugly gets you 15 secs of Internet fame. She really thinks she’s done nothing wrong can you blame her? This white woman ; others who look and think like her is just as whitewashed as the next Negro. For white (people of color) people to really except that people of color are in ALL shades of brown the mainstream media needs to start embracing DARK skin woman with are naturally kinky hair and styles that our unique to us in magazines, TV commercials, local News…. when white people see a DARK skin hand; feet models showing off the latest nail polish; showing a Diamond ring from Kay jeweler on the hand of a DARK skinned couple then things might be a little bit different.