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Sources: Amazon's recent tweets aimed at politicians came after Bezos told execs they were not pushing back enough on criticism that was inaccurate
Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Bessemer, Alabama’s union battle against Amazon is a David and Goliath tale – Vox
Pinboard · 3 weeks ago
TikTok says most users will be unable to opt out of personalized ads starting April 15; users in the European Union will be exempted due to GDPR
Beyond stimulus: Gen Z’s dream of high-speed rail and Green New Deal infrastructure
You got a vaccine. Walgreens got your data. Retail pharmacies are now giving out Covid-19 vaccines, and some of them are using it as an opportunity to profit off your information.
Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem
Pinboard · 1 month ago
More than a dozen current and ex-Amazon corporate employees say its Black staff often face direct and insidious bias that harms their careers and personal lives
Techmeme · 1 month ago
Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history (2018)
How neo-Nazis used the internet to instigate a right-wing extremist crisis – The number of active hate groups in the US is falling as they find new places to hide online.
Hawkfish, the Mike Bloomberg-funded tech company that helped his and later Joe Biden's 2020 election campaigns, is shutting down in May
Interview with Walmart's e-commerce chief Marc Lore, who is leaving the company at the end of the month
What is Signal, and why is everybody downloading it right now? The encrypted messaging app is currently the most downloaded app on both app stores.
eMarketer: US e-commerce sales, up 12%-16% in recent years, will have grown by 30%+ in 2020 and Amazon's US retail business grew an estimated 39% YoY in 2020
SoulCycle changed fitness. Its culture and toxic work environment made growth impossible. – Vox
Privacy laws in the US had momentum at the beginning of 2020, but the pandemic has focused Congress elsewhere and forced everyone to give up more data online
2020: The year in charts, from Covid-19 to the election – Vox
Russia reportedly hacked the US Treasury and other federal government agencies
Alloy, a Reid Hoffman-backed political data startup for Democrats, imploded after four senior employees, who had all complained about a colleague, were fired
San Francisco moves toward condemning the naming of the Zuckerberg hospital
The controversy behind a star Google AI researcher’s departure
AI has cracked a problem that stumped biologists for 50 years. It’s a huge deal.
Biden transition: How he could act fast and outrun Republican opposition to his presidency – Vox
Obama: The internet is “the single biggest threat to our democracy” | President Obama loved the internet. Now he has second thoughts.
Social media is making a bad political situation worse | America’s polarization problem is bigger than we thought it would be.
One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong
Is social media ready for a Covid-19 vaccine? – Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are bracing for more misinformation.
Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus
Donald Trump is attempting a coup in plain sight – Vox
Trump’s performance with Hispanic voters in 2020 should prompt some progressive rethinking – Vox
California's Proposition 24 is set to expand and strengthen CA's recent privacy law, the CCPA, and create a Privacy Protection Agency to help enforce the rules
5 fact-checks from the Senate’s hearing on social media
The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is stunning
Deep geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are pushing for a reform to CA tax law that would use property taxes to fund education, spending almost $11M on the effort
Facebook and Twitter said they would crack down on QAnon, but the delusion seems unstoppable – Can anyone stop QAnon?
Trump wants to end Obamacare. He has no plan to ensure preexisting conditions are covered. – Vox
How to spot fake news on Facebook and Twitter before the 2020 election
Almost 2,000 US election offices have applied for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $250M gift for election infrastructure; grants ranged from $5,000 to $15M
Leaked memo from February reveals Amazon's plans to invest in software to analyze data on unions, alongside non-union "threats" like crime and weather
Techmeme · 6 months ago
Leaked Amazon internal memo reveals new software to track unions
Reddit · 6 months ago
Google and Facebook hate a proposed privacy law. News publishers should embrace it.
An inside look at the world of TikTok "collab houses" in Los Angeles, amid allegations of exploitative talent managers withholding money from influencers
Sources: Democratic Party leaders say Facebook has failed to stem the tide of misinformation on its platform, despite monthly conversations with the company
Elon Musk and SpaceX launch Starlink satellite broadband amid pandemic
Reddit · 6 months ago
While livestreaming video e-commerce has taken off in China, it has yet to go mainstream in the US, but Walmart hopes it can lead the way with its bet on TikTok
Techmeme · 7 months ago