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Twitter violated contract by failing to pay millions in bonuses, US judge rules::WASHINGTON — Twitter violated contracts by failing to pay millions of dollars in bonuses that the social media company, now called X Corp, had promised its employees, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

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[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 127 points 10 months ago (5 children)

"X Corp" sounds like the most stereotypical evil villan organisation from a children's TV show

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“Ex corp” — As in, “We used to be a corporation, but we went bankrupt.”

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago

Morally, ethically, and financially

[–] ExceedinglyPanWoofer@yiffit.net 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Given how you pronounce x with an e at the start it couldn't be closer to E corp unless it literally went with the E itself

[–] crit@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean the evil corporation in Spiderman is "Oscorp" which is not very far away

[–] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 1 points 10 months ago

Completely agree.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)