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Contre les syndicats, Amazon mobilise des employés sur les réseaux sociaux
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2021/03/31/contre-les-syndicats-amazon-mobilise-des-employes-sur-les-reseaux-sociaux_60

Des comptes tenus par des employés rémunérés pour dire du bien d’Amazon participent à l’offensive du géant du Web contre la création d’un syndicat. Le site d’information américain The Intercept a publié, mercredi 31 mars, plusieurs documents internes confidentiels d’Amazon. Ils décrivent la mise en place d’un système d’« influenceurs » payés par le géant de la distribution pour prendre la défense de leur employeur sur les réseaux sociaux. Baptisé « Veritas », vérité en latin, ce programme, lancé en 2018, (...)

#Amazon #manipulation #GigEconomy #lobbying #syndicat #travail

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Document : Amazon Twitter Army Handpicked for “Sense of Humor”
►https://theintercept.com/2021/03/30/amazon-twitter-ambassadors-jeff-bezos-bernie-sanders

Amazon ambassadors were trained to defend Jeff Bezos and clap back at Bernie Sanders under a program codenamed “Veritas.” Amazon’s small Twitter army of “ambassadors” was quietly conceived in 2018 under the codename “Veritas,” which sought to train and dispatch select employees to the social media trenches to defend Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, according to an internal description of the program obtained exclusively by The Intercept. Amazon ambassadors drew attention this week as they (...)

#Amazon #Twitter #manipulation #lobbying #GigEconomy

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Documents Show Amazon Is Aware Drivers Pee in Bottles
▻https://theintercept.com/2021/03/25/amazon-drivers-pee-bottles-union

If employees actually had to pee in bottles, Amazon said, “nobody would work for us.” That’s a lie. In anticipation of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s scheduled trip to Bessemer, Alabama, to support the unionization drive by Amazon workers there, Amazon executive Dave Clark cast the $1 trillion behemoth as “the Bernie Sanders of employers” and taunted : “So if you want to hear about $15 an hour and health care, Senator Sanders will be speaking downtown. But if you would like to make at least $15 an hour (...)

#Amazon #conducteur·trice·s #GigEconomy #travail

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The Paraquat Poisoning Problem
▻https://theintercept.com/2021/03/24/paraquat-poisoning-syngenta

Heylings knew Rose and had seen his findings, which were known within the company as the Rose Report. ICI had used the report to justify the concentration at which it added a chemical called PP796 to its paraquat products. But the numbers and graphs he saw jotted in the notebook didn’t support the conclusion that Rose drew in his official report. “When I compared the data in his report to the original pharmaceuticals clinical trial data, I found they were different,” Heylings told The Intercept. “You know, very different.” While an accurate analysis would consider all the outcomes in an experiment, Rose had “cherry-picked,” according to Heylings. “He took some data out, he put some data in.”

#pesticide #poison #Syngenta

Verizon’s NFL Covid-19 Screening Cameras Are Based on Bad Science
▻https://theintercept.com/2021/03/03/covid-verizon-nfl-fever-thermal-imaging

Verizon’s 5G-powered fever-detecting cameras appear to be sourced from a company under State Department sanctions and probably don’t work. Technology companies have spent the past year in a manic sprint to reimagine (or at least re-market) their wares as coronavirus response tools, with often less than stellar results. Next up is telecom mammoth Verizon, whose latest initiative cashes in on 5G hype and Covid-19 fears and is not only technologically pointless, according to experts, but based (...)

#Verizon #FDA #algorithme #CCTV #température #vidéo-surveillance #COVID-19 #santé #surveillance (...)

##santé ##Zyter

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