The ‘Lose Yourself’ rapper filed the lawsuit through his company, Eight Mile Style
Eminem has filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms – the owners of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram.
The ‘Lose Yourself’ rapper, 52, filed the lawsuit on May 30 in Michigan through his production company Eight Mile Style, and he is seeking over $109 million in damages.
In the filing obtained by TheWrap, the musician – whose real name is Marshall Mathers – alleges that Meta violated the copyright of 243 of his songs through the ‘unauthorized storage, reproduction and exploitation’ of the tracks on their platform.
Eminem’s lawsuit against the tech giant claims that features such as Original Audio and Reels are tools that ‘allow and encourage its users to steal’ his music to be used in video content ‘without proper attribution or license’.
Eminem is suing Meta Platforms (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
Eminem keeps mom diss in song after her death
In the suit, Meta Platforms is accused of ‘rampant infringement’ of music by the Grammy winner, but also of ‘knowing infringement’, claiming that the Mark Zuckerberg company ‘encourag[ed] billions of users of its online services to do so, all willfully, and without a license’.
The filing claims: “Thus, as Meta knows, it does not enjoy and is not eligible for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (“DMCA”) safe harbor provisions.”
He is requesting the maximum statutory damages, totalling $150,000 for each of the songs across all three of Meta’s platforms, which comes to a grand total of $109,350,000.
Eight Mile Style has requested a jury trial and is seeking actual damages, lost profits, as well as a permanent injunction against the unlicensed usage of Eminem’s music.
Mark Zuckerberg is the chairman and CEO of Meta Platforms (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
UNILAD has reached out to Meta and Eminem’s representatives for comment.
Eminem is no stranger to lawsuits as the rap star was threatened with a $10 million suit from his own mother, Debbie Nelson, after one line that featured in his song back in 1999.
Even before this song’s release, Eminem made it clear that he and his mother, who passed away last year, had a turbulent relationship since he was a child, even going as far to bring it up in press interviews.
In his 1999 hit ‘My Name Is’ – which featured on his The Slim Shady LP – Eminem alleged his mom ‘smokes more dope than I do’, a line that was met with backlash from his estranged mother.
In 2001, two years after filing the lawsuit, Debbie Nelson was awarded $25,000, although most of it went to legal fees, leaving her with just $1,600.Featured Image Credit: Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images/David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Topics: Eminem, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, News, Entertainment
Published 13:55 28 Nov 2024 GMT
Mark Zuckerberg has one interview test that you have to pass to land a job with Meta
Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg has one key thing that he looks for in a potential hire
If you want to be hired by Mark Zuckerberg, there’s one thing that you must convince him of.
We’ve all seen the TikTok videos of people dancing around the office when they learn that bonuses are performance based, but you’ll be pleased to know that you don’t have to master the samba to win over Zuckerberg.
As it stands, it’s said that the Facebook founder has around 70,000 people working for his company Meta – the California-based company that runs apps like Facebook (which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary), Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp.
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While it’s unlikely that Zuckerberg personally interviewed all his employees personally, when someone does get to the stages when they meet tech mogul, he has one key thing in mind.
Sharing the apparent ‘test’ during a business town hall held back in 2015, the 40-year-old said, as per The Independant: “I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person.”
“It’s a pretty good test,” Zuckerberg added.
He echoed similar sentiments in a 2018 interview on the Recode Decode podcast.
“If the tables were turned and you were looking for a job, would you be comfortable working for this person,” Zuckerberg said, “then you’re doing something expedient, but you’re not doing as well as you can.”
Mark Zuckerberg will only hire people he’d personally work for (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
Elsewhere he dubbed the test in question as the ‘single most important thing’ when it comes to deciding if you think someone would be good at their job.
Zuckerberg also finds critical thinking important.
Speaking to Bloomberg’s Emily Chang in recent months, the multibillionaire said the most important thing is ‘learning how to think critically and learning values when you’re young’.
Zuckerberg continued to explain that he follows this line of thought when it comes to his hiring philosophy.
He shared: “If people have shown that they can go deep and do one thing really well, then they’ve probably gained experience in, like, the art of learning something.”
Zuckerberg has around 70,000 people working for him at Meta (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
While Zuckerberg has shared the key question he asks potential hires, fellow tech mogul Bill Gates previously shared the ‘perfect’ answer to give – particularly when asked about salary expectations.
Gates says you should answer: “I hope the option package is good. I’m able to take risk and I think the company has a great future, so I prefer to get stock options even more than cash compensation.”
Imagine giving this answer as an early Apple employee… you’d currently be laughing your way to the bank.Featured Image Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images / Getty Stock Images
Topics: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Facebook, Business
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Published 12:23 8 Jan 2025 GMT
Elon Musk issues three-word response to Mark Zuckerberg as Meta plans to copy X in a big way
President-elect Donald Trump has also spoken out on the change
Elon Musk has responded after Mark Zuckerberg confirmed Meta would be following X in making a major change to how its social media platforms are run.
Zuckerberg – who now has a net worth of $213 billion – founded Facebook in 2004.
Meta acquired Instagram for $1 billion in 2012 and went on to launch Threads – an alternative to Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter – in 2023.
Now, all three Meta-owned social media sites are set to loosen moderation by scrapping third-party fact-checking in the US.
Meta’s fact checking program was introduced in 2016 and sees posts that appear to be false or misleading referred to independent organisations for verification.
Inaccurate posts are labeled with wider context and information.
Facebook, Instagram and Threads users in the US will notice the change (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The system is being axed in a bid to restore ‘free expression’, Zuckerberg said in a video update.
Instead, Meta is switching to an X-style Community Notes system where users flag content as false or misleading.
Zuckerberg said the decision was about ‘restoring free expression’ on its platforms and ‘reducing mistakes’ it said automated content moderation systems were making, which Meta believed was amounting to censorship in some cases, accusing some fact-checkers of being influenced by their own biases.
Fact-checking practices will remain as usual outside the US.
Full Fact, a fact-checking organization involved in verifying Facebook posts in Europe, called Meta’s decision a ‘backwards step’.
Zuckerberg explained Meta’s moderation changes in a new video (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
Their chief executive Chris Morris said: “We absolutely refute Meta’s charge of bias – we are strictly impartial, fact check claims from all political stripes with equal rigour, and hold those in power to account through our commitment to truth.
“Like Meta, fact checkers are committed to promoting free speech based on good information without resorting to censorship. But locking fact checkers out of the conversation won’t help society to turn the tide on rapidly rising misinformation.”
The community notes system was first introduced on X back in 2021, becoming more widely used after Musk took over the social media giant in 2023.
It allows platform users who have signed up to the program to respond to potentially controversial posts with clarifications and wider context in a break out box.
People can then vote on if they find the annotations helpful.
And Musk – an outspoken advocate for ‘free speech’ – has since responded to Zuckerberg’s moderation changes.
Sharing a screenshot to his X profile of a Free Speech Union article headlined: “Facebook dumps fact-checkers in attempt to ‘restore’ free speech,” Musk simply responded: “This is cool.”
The Meta changes come weeks before President-elect Donald Trump – who previously criticized Meta’s fact-checking policy – takes office. Trump even threatened Zuckerberg with life in prison at one point.
Trump said at a news conference: “Honestly, I think they have come a long way, Meta, Facebook.”
Asked whether Zuckerberg was ‘directly responding’ to threats Trump had made to him in the past, the incoming president responded: “Probably”.Featured Image Credit: Marc Piasecki/Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Topics: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Social Media, Donald Trump
Updated 12:40 28 Jul 2023 GMT+1Published 05:46 28 Jul 2023 GMT+1
Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse department of Meta has lost $21.3 billion since January 2022
The unit recorded $276 million in Q2 sales this year, a significant drop from the $339 million in Q1.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse department of Meta has lost a staggering $21.3 billion since the beginning of last year.
Looks like Reality Labs isn’t the big success the Facebook CEO was hoping for after all.
According to Meta’s second-quarter earnings, Reality Labs, the business and research unit that produces virtual reality software, has lost around $21.3 billion since January 2022.
The department recorded $276 million in Q2 2023 sales, a significant drop from the $339 million at the start of this year.
And the worst is yet to come, according to experts.
CFO Susan Li said in the report: “For Reality Labs, we expect operating losses to increase meaningfully year-over-year due to our ongoing product development efforts in augmented reality/virtual reality and investments to further scale our ecosystem.”
She added that the unit recorded an additional $3.1 billion loss this past quarter as well.
Last year, Reality Labs lost $13.7 billion while bringing in $2.16 billion in revenue, primarily driven by Meta’s sales of VR headsets, which Zuckerberg dubbed ‘the first mainstream headset with high-res colour mixed reality’.
Li added she predicts the company’s revenue will hit the same as last year in Q3, however, Meta will likely surpass its budget.
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“We anticipate our full-year 2023 total expenses will be in the range of $88-91 billion, increased from our prior range of $86-90 billion due to legal-related expenses recorded in the second quarter of 2023,” she added.
However, Meta’s financial woes don’t end here.
Comedian Sarah Silverman filed a lawsuit against the company earlier this month for copyright infringement and the unauthorized use of her work.
Silverman, along with Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, are also suing the ChatGPT developer OpenAI, claiming they trained their artificial intelligence bots while using their work without their permission.
According to The Guardian, the lawsuit outlines that writers ‘did not consent to the use of their copyrighted books as training material for ChatGPT. Nonetheless, their copyrighted materials were ingested and used to train ChatGPT.’
The lawsuit regarding Meta says these authors’ books appear in the dataset Zuckerberg used to train LLaMA, a group of Meta-owned AI bots.Featured Image Credit: Meta
Topics: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, News, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality
Published 11:59 14 Mar 2025 GMT
Surprising meal that has been on US Senate menu for over 120 years for bizarre reason
The US Senate loves this one historical dish…
There is a specific meal that’s been on the Senate’s restaurant menu every single day for over a century…and the reason is very strange.
There is so much history when it comes to food, that we often don’t think about the way it was created, or why it became so famous in certain regions.
But when there’s a good story, everyone should be privy to it.
Such as the case of the infamous soup that has been on the United States Senate menu since 1908.
The Senate was founded on March 4, 1789, and it wasn’t long before it began a practice that would last up until present day.
The United States Senate loves this one dish (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty)
It was the introduction of bean soup, also known as Senate Bean Soup or Capitol Bean Soup.
This incredibly cheap and simple dish has been served every single day since 1908 and is still going strong.
But its origins are debatable.
According to the Senate website: “Bean soup is on the menu in the Senate’s restaurant every day. There are several stories about the origin of that mandate, but none has been corroborated.”
According to one story, the tradition was started by Senator Fred Dubois of Idaho, who was the chair of the committee overseeing the Senate Restaurant.
The story goes on to say that he passed a resolution in the committee requiring that bean soup should be on the daily menu, and it should always include mashed potatoes (presumably Idaho potatoes).
Another story states that it began with Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota, who loved the soup, and in 1903 and insisted that it should be on the menu from thereon out- with none of the ingredients hailing from his hometown.
It has been served every day (excluding one day) for over a century (Getty Stock Images)
Regardless of its origins, there was only one day where it wasn’t served, and it even made the news.
It happened on September 14, 1943, when rationing due to World War II left the kitchen without enough navy beans to make the famed soup.
The Washington Times-Herald reported that it was absent from the menu the following day and in a speech on the Senate in 1988, Bob Dole responded to the issue decades later: “Somehow, by the next day, more beans were found and bowls of bean soup have been ladled up without interruption ever since.”
Its variations have been challenged also, with it sometimes having ham hocks included, and other times there was a stock instead.
Anyway, the two recipes (one with mashed potatoes, and one without) are right here for you to try out yourself.
Senate Bean Soup, created by Dubois (allegedly), makes a 5-gallon batch, and consists of: 2 pounds dried navy beans, 4 quarts of hot water, 1 1/2 pounds of smoked ham hocks, 1 onion chopped, 2 tablespoons butter, salt and pepper.
The other batch of Bean Soup Recipe, the 5 gallon one is: 3 pounds of dried navy beans, 2 pounds of ham and a ham bone, 1-quart of mashed potatoes, 5 onions, chopped, 2 stalks of chopped celery, 4 cloves of chopped garlic, and half a bunch of chopped parsley.
There you have it, enjoy your dish.Featured Image Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty
Topics: US News, Politics, Food and Drink, Weird, History
