Activision Blizzard CEO reportedly knew of misconduct, Amazon settles suit over COVID cases

Speaker 1: This is CNET. And here are the stories that matter right now. The CEO of act vision blizzard reportedly knew about allegations of sexual misconduct at the company. For years, according to a report in the wall street journal on Tuesday, CEO, Bobby Kosik failed to inform the company board about incidents, including the alleged rape of a more employee by a supervisor. The company has faced increased scrutiny in recent months over its alleged frat boy workplace culture. Kotick has pledge [00:00:30] to improve culture, but employees responded on Tuesday by planning a walkout and calling for him to be replaced. Amazon will pay half a million dollars to settle a lawsuit with California over a claims. It hid COVID case numbers. The company was accused of violating California's right to know law by failing to provide accurate numbers to employees and health agencies under the settlement. Amazon needs to notify local health agencies of new cases within 48 hours and employees within one day. [00:01:00] And in life news say goodbye to disappearing tweets. Twitter has rolled out an update that will stop tweets from disappearing when your timeline auto refreshes. Instead, Twitter says that when you're on its web platform, you'll now be able to choose when to update your feet. Stay up to date with the latest by visiting CNET.