Amazon says it is seeking the recusal of FTC chair Lina Khan from matters related to the company, citing her history of criticism and antitrust arguments
at least in part—meant to deter people who might enter public service from making public statements criticizing unrepentant monopolists. Do not be deterred. https://twitter.com/... April Glaser / @apr...
Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft are having mixed results in building statewide vaccination sign-up websites, due to difficulties in integrating county systems
As the nation takes on one of the largest logistical challenges in history with the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination program … Tweets: @cfarivar , @aprilaser , @digiphile , and @digiphile Tweets: C...
Profile of Jessica Rosenworcel, the second woman to lead the FCC as acting chair and a big proponent of net neutrality and expanding broadband access
a role that has had an impact on her policy priorities. Here's my profile of her: https://www.nbcnews.com/... Tony Romm / @tonyromm : NEW: Biden appoints Rebecca Kelly Slaughter as acting chairwoman o...
April Christina Curley, a Google recruiter focused on Black colleges, says she was fired in September and alleges a hostile work environment for Black people
after Google did not respond to demands from Black employees from within the company for better treatment and representation. My latest w/@CiCiAdams_ https://www.nbcnews.com/... Jeffrey Dastin / @jlda...
Interviews with 40 Amazon employees and government documents: Amazon's COVID-19 response lacks oversight and transparency with inadequate worker safety policies
NBC News : Tweets: @cfarivar , @sallyshin , @hashtagmolotov , @jonschuppe , @tonyajoriley , @adielkaplan , @lowerformofwit , @brandyzadrozny , @adielkaplan , @adielkaplan , @cfarivar , @cfarivar , @a...
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress that Facebook's rise is an American success story and regulation only serves to help Chinese companies
or even favoring the latter — is not going to age well. And this isn't a defense of Facebook. April Glaser / @aprilaser : remembering Facebook's previous posture towards China and that if FB was actua...
An analysis of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's dissertation at a German university in 2002 and how it presaged the work he would go on to do at Palantir
and what it reveals about the new tech nationalism. CW: Contains long, bone-dry summaries of late Adorno. https://www.boundary2.org/... Moira Weigel / @moiragweigel : For years I'd heard that the CEO ...
Report: US DOD and federal law enforcement have thousands of previously unreported contracts with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, IBM, HP, and Facebook
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Sources detail Google's lackluster response to the BLM movement, which one employee said was to “isolate the black employees” to vent without structural changes
they were essentially “dead” links.https://www.nbcnews.com/ ... @hypervisible : Google, yes fucking GOOGLE, sent an email to employees w/ resources “for allies who are looking for ways to help” on mat...
A look at recent statements by tech companies, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce, regarding racism in America after George Floyd's death
Evan Spiegel's letter to Snap staff: https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Meg Graham / @megancgraham : Talkspace says it's ending its partnership agreement with Facebook following the company's decisio...