Tag: emailing

03 APR

Bosses in New York City might soon have to stop emailing and messaging their employees after work ends

SFIO CRACHO/Shutterstock.com New York City may pass a law making it illegal for employers to require employees to check work email outside regular work hours. France passed a similar law in 2017, and the German company Volkswagen shuts off email servers at night. Research suggests workers are emotionally exhausted by the anticipation of receiving messages […]

20 JAN

Twitter begins emailing the 677,775 Americans who took Russian election bait

Enlarge / Maybe Twitter should try this approach for the 677,775 emails it says it will soon send to affected users. (credit: Warner Bros. / Sam Machkovech) On Friday, Twitter took an end-of-the-week opportunity to dump some better-late-than-never news onto its userbase. For anybody who followed or engaged with a Twitter account that faked like […]

19 JAN

Twitter is emailing 677,775 people in the US who interacted with Russian propaganda in the 2016 election (TWTR)

Twitter will email 677,775 users in the US to let them know that they interacted with Russian propaganda during the 2016 US presidential election. All of those users either followed an account, liked or retweeted content associated with the Internet Research Agency (IRA) — an organization associated with Russian propaganda efforts. In total, Twitter believes […]