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Laura J. Nelson

@laura_nelson
8 posts
2026-01-27
This chart ran as part of my latest @wsj story with my colleague Juliet Chung, looking at the famously dogged tax auditors of the California Franchise Tax Board: [image]
2026-01-27 View on X
Bloomberg

Billionaire Tom Steyer, who is running for California governor, says he plans to vote for the one-time 5% tax on billionaires if it reaches the November ballot

Billionaire Tom Steyer came out in favor of a proposed tax on California's wealthiest residents, adding a prominent voice …

2021-12-05
This is a wild read: https://www.nbcnews.com/...
2021-12-05 View on X
NBC News

How online activists helped close BOO, an MLM scheme that sold $110 bags of dirt as alternative medicine on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok during the pandemic

until scrutiny closed in last week. https://www.nbcnews.com/... Laurie Garrett / @laurie_garrett : Eating #ivermectin horse worms paste was bad enough, but now #antivaxxers are — a...

2021-02-27
Did Stanford just invent the phone call? https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-27 View on X
Stanford News

Researchers identify causes for Zoom fatigue: intense close-up eye contact, constantly seeing own reflection, reduced mobility, and increased cognitive load

talks about extra cognitive and emotional demands. Great tips. I like this one: “give yourself an “audio only...not simply you turning off your camera... but also turning your body...

2020-10-26
My first year at the @latimes, I did a feature on a California company that taught people how to fix their own iPhones. Even then, when devices were clunkier, it was getting tough to take them apart without damaging them. Now, it's almost impossible. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-10-26 View on X
The Markup

An overview of tech issues on the ballot in November: the status of gig workers, warrantless phone searches, privacy rights, publicly-funded broadband, and more

Voters in states and cities across the country will decide some of technology's biggestquestions

2020-08-21
Lyft makes good on its threat to suspend operations in California, its home market: https://www.lyft.com/...
2020-08-21 View on X
New York Times

Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan charged with obstruction of justice for trying to conceal the 2016 data breach of millions of users and drivers from FTC officials

Joe Sullivan, who led Uber's security team through the company's most tumultuous period, was fired by the company's newly installed chief executive in 2017.

2020-05-06
New: California has sued Uber and Lyft, saying their drivers are employees, not independent contractors. The lawsuit could have wide-reaching effects for the gig economy. https://www.latimes.com/...
2020-05-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Instacart tried to adapt to the pandemic by adding 300K shoppers in eight weeks and says it has had its first-ever monthly profit in April of $10M

Bloomberg : Tweets: @josheidelson , @josheidelson , @bw , @bw , and @laura_nelson Tweets: Josh Eidelson / @josheidelson : “the company said its procurement team had secured a supp...

2020-01-10
Lime is shutting down its scooter operations in 12 cities, including four in the U.S: Atlanta, Phoenix, San Diego, San Antonio. https://www.axios.com/...
2020-01-10 View on X
Axios

Lime says it is laying off about 14% of its workforce, roughly 100 employees, and shuttering operations in 12 markets as it seeks to become profitable this year

Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios :

2019-11-12
A @wsj bombshell: Google is collecting and analyzing health records from tens of millions of Americans in 21 states through an agreement with the country's second-largest healthcare system, the story says. Patients and doctors haven't been informed. https://www.wsj.com/...
2019-11-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Google partnered with Ascension, the 2nd-largest US health-care system, to analyze personal health info of millions, sources say as part of Project Nightingale

Search giant is amassing health records from Ascension facilities in 21 states; patients not yet informed