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It’s right to make fat people pay extra to fly – they’re worse than screaming babies, says Roger Lewis. No it’s not – I’d rather cut off my arm than get on airport scales, insists Marion McGilvary. Who do YOU agree with? Have your say in our poll
Mo’Nique Says Being Painted as a “Big, Fat, Black Woman” Was the Difference in the Response to Taraji P. Henson’s Pay Drama
Mo’Nique is speaking up and out in the wake of Taraji P. Henson‘s viral interview about unequal pay as a Black actress.
As reported, ‘The Color Purple’ star broke down in tears when relaying the struggles she’s encountered receiving equal parity.
Many made an alignment between Henson’s sentiments and those Mo’Nique articulated during her public beef with the likes of Oprah Winfrey,
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7,000 Asda staff could face the sack unless they agree to a ‘shameful’ pay cut, union claims
FEARGAL SHARKEY: The nerve of these water companies to apologise and then make us pay for it!
Number struggling to pay bills soars by 40%, FCA finds
TikTok opens a $6 million fund to pay creators of popular AR effects
TikTok creators who whip up popular effects will soon be rewarded as the platform has set up a new fund for them. Through the Effect Creator Rewards fund, the platform will pay those who create widely-used augmented reality effects using TikTok’s Effect House tool.
At the outset, the fund will only be available in a few countries. TikTok confirmed to TechCrunch that the eligible territories are the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Payouts from the $6 million fund are based on engagement, but at the outset effects will need to meet quite a high threshold before creators are eligible to make money from them. For the time being, creators will earn $700 for each effect that’s used in 500,000 unique videos within 90 days of being published. For every 100,000 videos posted with the effect within the same period, the creator will earn $140. That’s a high bar to meet for a relatively small payment.
Although TikTok has other programs designed to reward creators, such as the $1 billion creator fund, those who are making content for the platform have complained about low payouts. Early last year, Hank Green estimated that he was making around 2.5 cents for every 1,000 views on TikTok. Other prominent creators, including YouTube megastar Mr. Beast, posted evidence of their paltry TikTok earnings.
Seemingly to address those complaints, TikTok recently overhauled the creator fund with an initiative called the Creativity Program. The aim, TikTok said, is to offer creators “higher average gross revenue for qualified video views.” The program is available in the US, France and Brazil for now.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/tiktok-opens-a-6-million-fund-to-pay-creators-of-popular-ar-effects-163005838.html?src=rss
Google To Pay $8 Million Settlement For ‘Lying To Texans,’ State AG Says
Paxton said that “if Google is going to advertise in Texas, their statements better be true.” He decided to take action to hold Google “accountable for lying to Texans for financial gain,” saying that large companies should not expect “special treatment under the law.” “Texas will do whatever it takes to protect our citizens and our state economy from corporations’ false and misleading advertisements,” Paxton said.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Microsoft will pay to capture carbon from burning wood
Microsoft just backed a big plan to capture carbon dioxide emissions from a wood-burning power plant. Today, the tech giant announced a deal with Danish energy company Ørsted to purchase credits representing 2.76 million metric tons of carbon dioxide captured at Ørsted’s Asnæs Power Station over 11 years.
It’s one of the biggest deals any company has made to date to draw down carbon dioxide emissions, according to a press release from Ørsted. The move is supposed to help Microsoft hit its goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030, the point at which the company is removing more planet-heating carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it generates through its operations.