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[Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoorDC]

NEW: Republican @FTCPhillips recused himself from an FTC order against Amazon. That could mean he's planning to revolve out to work for Amazon or its law firm.

We've sent a FOIA requesting documents notifying the agency of his post-FTC plans.
https://t.co/j0PSxndYJ6

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Twitter executives deceived federal regulators, the public, and its board of directors about “extreme, egregious deficiencies” in protecting its users and systems from hackers and reducing spam, according to a whistleblower complaint obtained by The Post. https://t.co/Tg86F3cOQO

[Stuart Leavenworth 💥 @sleavenworth]

Nice scoop by ⁦@LaurelRosenhall⁩ — A Silicon Valley legislator is inviting tech lobbyists to effectively buy access to top lawmakers at a posh event in Wine County before the Legislature comes back into session. https://t.co/KP4E7XQ6zz

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Massive data leak reveals how top politicians secretly helped Uber in its bid to disrupt the taxi market in European cities https://t.co/VQtllK7e3q

[NYT Business @nytimesbusiness]

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, told its workers not to openly discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade on wide-reaching communication channels inside the company. https://t.co/ItoPx0vyYH

[Pivot For Humanity @Pivot4Humanity]

“But if gamification is indeed a learning technique, what is the metaverse going to teach us?

The first thing it will teach us, I suspect, is to keep spending time in the metaverse.” https://t.co/7ryfZKLdYr

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the founder and executive director of Equality Labs, was uninvited from giving a talk at Google about caste bias after some employees said such discrimination doesn't exist. https://t.co/OfZnGYUlcP

[The Verge @verge]

After Uvalde, social media monitoring apps struggle to justify surveillance https://t.co/H4HXFXjYpk

[Rachel Metz @rachelmetz]

As a journalist, you never know where an important story will come from, or where it will lead. This one started as a conversation I had with @cherthedev about facial recognition, and turned into a horrifying discovery about her past. 🧵
https://t.co/lcZiEXgJ7M

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

SCOOP: Leaked internal document claims Facebook:

- Has no idea how much data it ultimately collects on its users
- Cannot control where all that data goes internally
- Ultimately does not know what happens with it

https://t.co/rMD3kWYO8O

[Pivot For Humanity @Pivot4Humanity]

https://t.co/H4ws9vkgDK

[NYTimes Tech @nytimestech]

The Digital Markets Act is aimed at stopping the largest tech platforms from using their interlocking services and considerable resources to box in users and squash emerging rivals, creating room for new entrants and fostering more competition. https://t.co/PSku1GudSS

[The Associated Press @AP]

Facebook failed to detect blatant hate speech and calls to violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority years after such behavior was found to have played a determining role in the genocide against them, a report shared with the @AP shows.

https://t.co/gv26Ic93ia

[The Hill @thehill]

Lawsuit against Google alleges systemic bias against Black employees https://t.co/DCoyaZvU7W

[Pivot For Humanity @Pivot4Humanity]

“Sadly, Ariel’s case is consistent with Google’s dangerous track record of worker retaliation…specifically against those speaking out against contracts that enable state violence against marginalized people." https://t.co/rZFKvrQOSx

[Pivot For Humanity @Pivot4Humanity]

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[BigTechIsSorry @BigTechIsSorry]

“Garg issued an apology a few days later in the wake of mass resignations from the company's top management, including the vice president of communications, the head of public relations and the head of marketing.” https://t.co/pUzlqVx67p

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

🚨For the last six months, Motherboard has been flying all over the world making CRYPTOLAND, our new documentary series about what crypto is doing to our culture and our world ... it premieres tomorrow🚨

https://t.co/INIJkCrfig

[Lauren Kaori Gurley @LaurenKGurley]

NEW: Amazon delivery company owners are having their life savings wiped out & going into $80-100k of debt participating in Amazon's delivery program

I spoke to 4 owners about their experiences & gathered receipts of their debts which are truly devastating https://t.co/y98Rf6Q6yt

[EFF @EFF]

The people of Ohio would be better off with nothing than with this so-called privacy protection act. Tell your representatives to stop this bill. https://t.co/JKh9Hw3bts