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Siddhartha Mahanta

@sidhubaba
18 posts
2022-06-10
Is... the answer... not obvious? https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-10 View on X
New York Times

America's Frontier Fund, a nonprofit group associated with Eric Schmidt, Peter Thiel, and others, is lobbying the US government to invest $1B in US chip making

Ephrat Livni / New York Times :

2021-11-17
In light of the Kanter appointment over at DOJ, it seems to me like FTC leadership is in lock step with the administration's priorities. Seems career staff should/could pay heed to this fact? https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-11-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Republican FTC commissioners and some career officials feel excluded under the current leadership; Lina Khan rejected the claims in an agency-wide memo

Criticized by Republicans, Khan tells agency staffers she aims to build bridges going forward Tweets: @wsj , @hotlinejosh , @karlbode , @brkend , and @sidhubaba Tweets: @wsj : Lina...

2021-10-04
The revelations of the @WSJ's Facebook Files series confirm what researchers and journalists have long suspected. There's an opportunity here for the company to change, if it seizes it, @Klonick writes: https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-10-04 View on X
CBS News

In a 60 Minutes interview, WSJ's Facebook Files whistleblower says Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, misinformation, and more

Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, “conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook.”

The revelations of the @WSJ's Facebook Files series confirm what researchers and journalists have long suspected. There's an opportunity here for the company to change, if it seizes it, @Klonick writes: https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-10-04 View on X
New York Times

Prior to the 60 Minutes interview, Nick Clegg posted an internal memo saying the whistleblower would accuse Facebook of relaxing election safeguards too soon

Yeah, about those annotations Facebook provided... https://www.nytimes.com/... Yael Eisenstat / @yaeleisenstat : A plea before the whistleblower speaks tonight: don't fall for Face...

2021-10-03
The revelations of the @WSJ's Facebook Files series confirm what researchers and journalists have long suspected. There's an opportunity here for the company to change, if it seizes it, @Klonick writes: https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-10-03 View on X
New York Times

Nick Clegg defended Facebook in an internal memo as the whistleblower who shared company documents with Congress and WSJ is set to appear on CBS' 60 Minutes

In an internal memo, Facebook defended itself and said that social media was not a primary cause of polarization.  — Read in app

The revelations of the @WSJ's Facebook Files series confirm what researchers and journalists have long suspected. There's an opportunity here for the company to change, if it seizes it, @Klonick writes: https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-10-03 View on X
New York Times

Sources: emergency meetings continue inside Facebook amid WSJ exposé, as some research staff decry Facebook's public response in group chats

Read in app Isaiah Poritz / OpenSecrets.org : Facebook maintained big lobbying expenses ahead of Senate hearing on teen social media use Robin Raskin / Techonomy : Instagram for Ki...

2021-01-17
“The result is that investors in Ant International are 'screwed,” said one lawyer with direct knowledge of the situation." https://www.ft.com/...
2021-01-17 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: investors, including BlackRock, GIC, and Silver Lake, who invested $10.3B in Ant's 2018 pre-IPO round are left with illiquid stakes after canceled IPO

2020-11-23
“We would always tell each other, 'when it happens here, it's going to be a complete disaster. We are all going to die.'” Read this deeply reported @maxsoeunkim longread on the horrors of working at South Korea e-commerce giant Coupang during COVID: https://restofworld.org/...
2020-11-23 View on X
Rest of World

Critics of Coupang, South Korea's online retail giant, describe the COVID-19 outbreak at a warehouse as an inevitable outcome of putting efficiency over safety

2020-11-22
“We would always tell each other, 'when it happens here, it's going to be a complete disaster. We are all going to die.'” Read this deeply reported @maxsoeunkim longread on the horrors of working at South Korea e-commerce giant Coupang during COVID: https://restofworld.org/...
2020-11-22 View on X
Rest of World

Critics of Coupang, South Korea's online retail giant, describe the COVID-19 outbreak at a warehouse as an inevitable outcome of putting efficiency over safety

South Korea's Coupang promised to make e-commerce lightning fast.  A Covid-19 outbreak at one of its warehouses shows that its workers paid the price.

2020-11-10
“We dress up for Instagram; we show the best side of ourselves and our lives ... But who I am on Instagram is closer to my reality than the person I am when I walk on the streets.” @mehrnadeem3 on the last free social-media platform in Iran: https://restofworld.org/...
2020-11-10 View on X
Rest of World

The Iranian regime begins cracking down on users of Instagram, which is the last open social media platform in Iran and could be a source for political change

After countrywide protests and pandemic lockdowns, Iranian Instagram has taken a decidedly political turn.  The authorities are taking note. Tweets: @caseynewton , @anupkaphle , @s...

2020-08-06
For isolated, abused migrant domestic workers around the world, innovative smartphone apps can help foster a sense of community and hope. But their impact only goes so far. https://restofworld.org/... via @auroraalmendral
2020-08-06 View on X
Rest of World

A look at various apps aimed at overseas domestic workers, which can help them find jobs, facilitate money transfers, and report labor abuse

a real risk for many of these already quite vulnerable workers. Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : There are people like Myrna Padilla, once a domestic worker herself, trying to find tech...

Many of these workers, from places like the Philippines and Ethiopia, have used apps MyCash to send money home, or Symplifica to help them stay safe.
2020-08-06 View on X
Rest of World

A look at various apps aimed at overseas domestic workers, which can help them find jobs, facilitate money transfers, and report labor abuse

a real risk for many of these already quite vulnerable workers. Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : There are people like Myrna Padilla, once a domestic worker herself, trying to find tech...

The trade off, of course, is that these services require sharing personal data — a real risk for many of these already quite vulnerable workers.
2020-08-06 View on X
Rest of World

A look at various apps aimed at overseas domestic workers, which can help them find jobs, facilitate money transfers, and report labor abuse

a real risk for many of these already quite vulnerable workers. Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : There are people like Myrna Padilla, once a domestic worker herself, trying to find tech...

It's a story of vulnerable migrant workers harnessing new tools to empower themselves. But it's also a story about the limitations of those tools, and a reminder that the structural forces undergirding their precarity will endure.
2020-08-06 View on X
Rest of World

A look at various apps aimed at overseas domestic workers, which can help them find jobs, facilitate money transfers, and report labor abuse

a real risk for many of these already quite vulnerable workers. Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : There are people like Myrna Padilla, once a domestic worker herself, trying to find tech...

In this deeply reported piece, Aurora shows us the fear and desperation circumscribing the daily lives of these laborers, often rendered invisible by the forces of global capitalism.
2020-08-06 View on X
Rest of World

A look at various apps aimed at overseas domestic workers, which can help them find jobs, facilitate money transfers, and report labor abuse

a real risk for many of these already quite vulnerable workers. Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : There are people like Myrna Padilla, once a domestic worker herself, trying to find tech...

Aurora tells the story of Myrna Padilla, a domestic-worker-turned-tech- entrepreneur. She developed OFW Watch, a free app to help migrant workers adapt to their new, uncertain lives.
2020-08-06 View on X
Rest of World

A look at various apps aimed at overseas domestic workers, which can help them find jobs, facilitate money transfers, and report labor abuse

a real risk for many of these already quite vulnerable workers. Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle : There are people like Myrna Padilla, once a domestic worker herself, trying to find tech...

2020-07-15
The independent developers leading the charge against Bolsonaro's Covid-19 data blackout: https://restofworld.org/... via @pribellini
2020-07-15 View on X
Rest of World

After a data blackout of official COVID-19 figures by the Brazilian government, dozens of volunteer developers are working to ensure the information is public

After a data blackout of official Covid-19 figures, Brazilian software developers decided to build alternative tallies. Tweets: @jstrauss , @cengizyar , @mikestucka , @telliotter ,...

2020-07-08
Fiverr is, to me, the ‘Don Draper app’ https://restofworld.org/... via @devi_lockwood
2020-07-08 View on X
Rest of World

Some brands are outsourcing the writing of well-worded Instagram captions to a far-flung cadre of writers in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and elsewhere via Fiverr

by @devi_lockwood