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Gabriel Debenedetti

@gdebenedetti
9 posts
2021-06-08
“Those 25 people saw their worth rise a collective $401 billion from 2014 to 2018. They paid a total of $13.6 billion in federal income taxes in those five years, the IRS data shows. That's a staggering sum, but it amounts to a true tax rate of only 3.4%.” https://www.propublica.org/...
2021-06-08 View on X
ProPublica

Leaked IRS data shows how billionaires manage to pay little in income tax; in 2007 and 2011, Jeff Bezos paid zero income tax, and Elon Musk did the same in 2018

The Secret IRS Files  —  In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world's richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes.

2021-06-05
“Since 2018, Amazon Web Services has hired at least 66 former government officials with acquisition, procurement or technology adoption experience, most hired directly away from government posts and more than half of them from the Defense Department” https://www.politico.com/...
2021-06-05 View on X
Politico

AWS hired at least 66 former US government officials since 2018; AWS employee says such hires give the company a “leg up” in winning government contracts

2020-01-03
“But each time I recommended a Human Rights Program, senior executives came up with an excuse to say no.” https://twitter.com/...
2020-01-03 View on X
Washington Post

Former Google exec alleges that he was pushed out in April after he lobbied for a human rights program to formalize Google's free speech and privacy principles

Ross LaJeunesse left the tech giant in April after lobbying for a human rights program for two years

2020-01-02
“But each time I recommended a Human Rights Program, senior executives came up with an excuse to say no.” https://twitter.com/...
2020-01-02 View on X
Washington Post

Former Google exec alleges that he was pushed out in April after he lobbied for a human rights program to formalize Google's free speech and privacy principles

Ross LaJeunesse left the tech giant in April after lobbying for a human rights program for two years

2019-11-12
Bezos' face is featured briefly in Bernie Sanders' new Iowa ad, Zuckerberg is in Yang's https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-12 View on X
Reuters

Amazon's record $1.5M effort to fill Seattle's city council with pro-business candidates fails, reviving chances of tax hikes on the city's tech firms

Gregory Scruggs / Reuters :

2019-09-19
“The only way for them to redeem themselves is to write big checks, which they're not doing.” http://nymag.com/...
2019-09-19 View on X
New York Magazine

Inside the growing split between Silicon Valley and the Democratic Party, once allies, as leading presidential candidates express extreme worries about Big Tech

With help from Cristiano Lima … Julie Bort / Business Insider : WeWork founder Adam Neumann joked about changing the United States Constitution so he could run for president Tweets...

also, this happened. http://nymag.com/... pic.twitter.com/xxmdY1mJDb
2019-09-19 View on X
New York Magazine

Inside the growing split between Silicon Valley and the Democratic Party, once allies, as leading presidential candidates express extreme worries about Big Tech

With help from Cristiano Lima … Julie Bort / Business Insider : WeWork founder Adam Neumann joked about changing the United States Constitution so he could run for president Tweets...

The question posed to Zuckerberg would've made sense to Warren, who, in private meetings on Capitol Hill as early as mid-2017, was explicitly comparing the country's tech leviathans to the pre-regulation giants of high finance http://nymag.com/...
2019-09-19 View on X
New York Magazine

Inside the growing split between Silicon Valley and the Democratic Party, once allies, as leading presidential candidates express extreme worries about Big Tech

With help from Cristiano Lima … Julie Bort / Business Insider : WeWork founder Adam Neumann joked about changing the United States Constitution so he could run for president Tweets...

in the new issue of @nymag: A 21st Century Divorce. Three summers ago, a worker stood up to ask Mark Zuckerberg whether Facebook had a plan in case the public turned against it, like what had happened to the big banks a few years earlier... https://twitter.com/...
2019-09-19 View on X
New York Magazine

Inside the growing split between Silicon Valley and the Democratic Party, once allies, as leading presidential candidates express extreme worries about Big Tech

With help from Cristiano Lima … Julie Bort / Business Insider : WeWork founder Adam Neumann joked about changing the United States Constitution so he could run for president Tweets...