Sources: Parler investor Rebekah Mercer, who controlled 2 of 3 board seats in early February, is increasingly exerting control since the founding CEO's exit
Mercer, whose family also invested in right-wing news site Breitbart, controls two of the three board seats at the company
Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI's founders
even inside newsrooms. This is depraved. https://twitter.com/... Robin Hanson / @robinhanson : “The ideas they exchanged were often controversial — connected to gender, race and inherent ability, for ...
Nandini Jammi, one half of pressure group Sleeping Giants, which has targeted Breitbart, Facebook, and others, leaves over disagreements with Matt Rivitz
Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @beccalew , @buzzfeednews , @shannoncoulter , @carnage4life , @scottlucas , @arb , and @kerrymflynn Tweets: Becca Lewis / @beccalew : I wish I could say th...
Kickstarter employees vote 46-37 to unionize with the Office and Professional Employees International Union
no matter where they work. That includes tech. #SupportUnions https://twitter.com/... @doctorow : Kickstarter workers vote to form first union in tech industry https://www.nbcnews.com/... Congrats to ...
Larry Page steps down as Alphabet CEO; Sundar Pichai to lead both Alphabet and Google
Silicon Valley is still politely shrugging … Tom Metcalf / Bloomberg : Alphabet's New Boss Leaves Silicon Valley Giants Low on Founders PYMNTS.com : Top News In Payments: CFPB Seeks Remittance Exempti...
Profile of Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram who, sources say, argued for removing fake news and demoting Breitbart in News Feed in 2017 and early 2018
KEY POINTS — In succeeding Instagram CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom, Adam Mosseri has to balance his staff's desire for autonomy with the greater needs of Facebook.
Breitbart's leaked Google all-hands video, while innocuous, is another example of employee dissatisfaction on public display, following James Damore and others
Casey Newton / The Verge :
Breitbart's leaked Google all-hands video, while innocuous, is another example of employee dissatisfaction on public display, following James Damore and others
What the leak of a video says about this moment at Alphabet — It's an unhappy time at Google. Tweets: @jillianiles and @caseynewton See also Mediagazer Tweets: Jillian D'Onfro / @jillianiles : Regar...
Uber hires veteran NASA engineer Mark Moore as director of engineering for aviation as part of its Uber Elevate flying car initiative
here are 5 others Bryan Clark / The Next Web : Uber snags NASA engineer to explore the feasibility of flying taxis Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Uber hires 30-year NASA veteran to lead Elevate, its flying...
Y Combinator boss Sam Altman says he's not going to cut ties with Peter Thiel for supporting Donald Trump
Y Combinator is extremely influential … Robert Hackett / Fortune : Data Sheet—Tuesday, October 18, 2016 Julia Carrie Wong / Guardian : The hypocrisy of Facebook's silence on Peter Thiel's support for ...