Senior Research Fellow at Harvard @ShorensteinCtr. previously: investigative reporter @NBCNews. California by way of Tennessee.
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Through a tangled web of more than 22 shell companies, Bill and Melinda Gates quietly became the largest owners of farmland in America. Their farmland grows potatoes for McDonald’s fries and carrots and onions that end up in grocery stores. My latest nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/m…
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1. Too often, businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription.
Today @FTC finalized a rule requiring that businesses make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one.
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Gosh- hi y'all! Been a while. I moved to the mountains and live a regular country life now. Mostly grilling, fishing, gardening, felling trees and lovin on my dog when not at work. Swimming in a lake or river religiously every day. Last winter I got 4.5 ft of snow! It's been wild
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This article is a great example on how the @nytimes coverage of Indigenous issues doesn’t meet the basic standards of journalism. This article grossly misrepresents what happened in the underlying custody cases and the people behind the lawsuit.
In a case that could affect thousands of Native American children, the Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments Wednesday in the case of a four-year-old girl, whose birth mother is Navajo but who is living with a white family who wants to adopt her. nyti.ms/3WKaB3B
So now I've read like 5 articles on cheating at pro-fishing tournaments and it turns that polygraph tests are a really common way to catch cheaters gameandfishmag.com/editorial… - totally hooked on this story y'all 😬
This is a mess — I remember when I was reporting on this such claims were labeled as misinformation. How do we reconcile?
A coronavirus vaccination can change the timing of when you get your period, according to research. For most people, the effect was temporary. wapo.st/3SDgooY
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1/6 We try to keep it light and fun here, but today we'd like to try and explain one of the biggest causes of frustration patrons face at the Accounts Desk: "My spouse has five books checked out, can you tell me what they are?" The answer? Simply? No.
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We dug into the role of internet infrastructure companies like Cloudflare in deciding what does and doesn’t get to stay online — whether they like it or not.
Our latest looks specifically at what happened with K**ifarms and 8chan techpolicy.press/is-a-tech-c… with @jruddock__
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We have generated a list of community-based org's in #PuertoRico with years of experience. Please share widely, and donate if you can #FionaPR:
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Most sophisticated thinking I've seen on content moderation in the mid-stack.
"Is A Tech Company Ever Neutral? Cloudflare’s Latest Controversy Shows Why The Answer is No," by @aprilaser and @jruddock
We dug into the role of internet infrastructure companies like Cloudflare in deciding what does and doesn’t get to stay online — whether they like it or not.
Our latest looks specifically at what happened with K**ifarms and 8chan techpolicy.press/is-a-tech-c… with @jruddock__
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NEW: Been working for months on this data project w/@jeremybmerrill. The ‘big lie’ wasn’t just a plan to overturn the election. It was massive clout-building exercise that spawned a generation of influencers. It continues to polarize even w/Trump offline.
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For those who prefer to see Cloudflare stay out of content moderation–that ship’s sailed…untangling complex policy questions during crisis is unworkable but so is continuing to insist there are neutral players.
🔥🔥 @jruddock__ & @aprilaser techpolicy.press/is-a-tech-c…
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Can’t believe this week is here! 1st stop is C-SPAN to talk w @WesleyLowery about my book Black Skinhead. Then to NYC for 9/20 book launch at Powerhouse Arena in BKN w/ @dfnbrown1 & @yu_whoooo finally back to Baltimore for a convo w @LisaMcCray
Join me! eventbrite.com/d/ny--new-yor…
Okay but my question is how many people haven't had covid yet but said they got it at one point to dodge an obligation. And now can't claim their natural immunity 🤔 wired.com/story/the-mystery-…
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It's true! My time with @NBCNewsBusiness is coming to an end and soon I'll be writing about retail more pointedly with @opinion. I'm so sad to be leaving such a humble and SMART team and equally as excited to start this new chapter of my career with Bloomberg!
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Is A Tech Company Ever Neutral? Cloudflare’s Latest Controversy Shows Why The Answer is No.
Jenna Ruddock (@jruddock__) and April Glaser (@aprilaser) question why only the denial of infrastructure services is framed as a political choice: techpolicy.press/is-a-tech-c…
We dug into the role of internet infrastructure companies like Cloudflare in deciding what does and doesn’t get to stay online — whether they like it or not.
Our latest looks specifically at what happened with K**ifarms and 8chan techpolicy.press/is-a-tech-c… with @jruddock__
Internet infrastructure companies have a role to play — whether they like it or not — in what does and doesn’t stay online, as we’ve seen with The Daily Stormer, Gab, 8chan, sex worker sites and countless examples of when internet services companies have decided to pull the plug.
In our latest @jruddock__ and I argue it’s time to have a robust conversation about how decisions to pull the plug on a website are made. Governance without consistency or transparency is a spectacle. And making calls in the midst of a crisis is a mess techpolicy.press/is-a-tech-c…