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    7 Aug 2020

    Google trains new employees not to use the words "market," "dominance," "barriers to entry," or "network effects." We obtained the documents that spell out which words are banned:

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    23 Nov 2020

    we need more genders in the chat

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  3. Mar 4

    We're learning a lot about Facebook from our Citizen Browser project. and on this alarming finding

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  4. Mar 3

    stay tuned for a completely disgusting ending

    A real cool episode right here
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    Mar 2

    Black students made up less than 5% of UMass Amherst’s undergraduates, but they accounted for more than 14% of students deemed “high risk” for the fall 2020 semester. “This opens the door to even more educational steering” - told

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    Mar 1

    I'd love to talk to ppl: + whose private/undisclosed health conditions make them eligible for vaccination; + who have faced judgment, or feared judgment, for vaccination, or their eligible health conditions. Can be anon--DM for Signal.

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    Feb 26

    March 21, 2019, was the worst night of my life. I wanted to understand what happened and how, so I spent months piecing it all together and speaking with those who were directly involved. Here’s what I found, for :

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    Feb 25

    🎉 What a wonderful anniversary surprise! We just won three design awards - two for Blacklight and one for overall! 🎉 Huge congratulations to design maestro & engineer extraordinaire

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  9. Feb 26

    hyfr

    Replying to @JuliaAngwin @SND and 3 others
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    Feb 24

    If you're a NYT executive who needs a report to know this you're a bad executive (paraphrased): The Times is a difficult environment for many, particularly for people of color, many of whom described unsettling and sometimes painful experiences.

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  11. Feb 24

    spoiler: nothing works

    Today, with the , we are releasing Big Tech Detective, a browser extension that reveals how much power a few tech monopolies have over our digital lives. Read all about it and try it out here:
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  12. Feb 23

    People also ask

    Screenshot of Google search results page People also ask Why Emily in Paris is bad? Is Emily in Paris in Paris? What happens in Emily in Paris? Is Emily in Paris real?
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    Feb 22

    Haha I love this. itself has become an outlier datapoint in 's tracking stats. Thanks for helping us make this happen ! (Hope it stays that way )

    Because of this company, offers newsletter sending without tracking. I regularly get a bit of a heart attack when I look at our stats and one line says: 0 opens 0 clicks 0 everything Then I remember: Nothing wrong, just a great company delivering on a privacy promise.
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    Feb 23

    Our lives are influenced by algorithms every day with little clarity on how they work or the human biases that can be built into them. Algorithm audits could be one solution, but they come with concerns. explains in .

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  15. Feb 22

    netgalley hacked!!

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    Feb 22

    An independent investigation finds Aurora Police did not have a basis to stop, frisk, or restrain Elijah McClain. The report also found, "EMS administered a ketamine dosage based on a grossly inaccurate and inflated estimate of Mr. McClain’s size."

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    Feb 19

    Google recently added a feature allowing users to search for "Black-owned businesses near you". They're advertising it all over the place (see below). I've also already started hearing from Black-owned businesses I follow that they're seeing an influx of racist fake reviews...

    Google ad on Instagram reading "Search Black-owned near you"
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    Feb 19

    I'm fired.

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    Feb 18

    In 2018, John Deere and other tractor manufacturers promised that, starting Jan 1, 2021, it would make repair tools and diagnostic software easily available to all farmers. It said this made right-to-repair legislation unnecessary. It's 2021. Deere lied.

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  20. Feb 18

    Dara's first story for The Markup is a must-read

    I've been looking into workers getting scammed and it's a crazy world out there. They're being targeted by con artists, who use loopholes in Postmates' system to drain their accounts. Hundreds of stories like this are detailed online
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  21. Feb 18

    New! Scholar Recommendations Reloaded! Fresher, More Relevant, Easier
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