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What really happened at Basecamp
27 apr. 2021 - Basecamp announced it would ban "societal and political discussions" at work. But the hardest conversations at work were about the company itself. Platformer’s Casey Newton spoke with half a dozen employees about the controversy.
 · basecamp · coinbase · diversity · politics

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The mess at Medium
25 mar. 2021 - 14 current and former staffers on what went wrong.
 · journalism · medium

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The battle inside Signal
26 jan. 2021 - The fast-growing encrypted messaging app is developing features that would make it more vulnerable to abuse. Current and former employees are sounding the alarm.
 · content-moderation · cryptocurrencies · encryption · end-to-end-encryption · growth · messaging · mobilecoin · signal · whatsapp

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Antitrust finally gets its hearing
27 jul. 2020 - Well, we had an antitrust hearing.A long one, too. The House Judiciary Committee’s investigation into the market power of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google ran to nearly six hours, accounting for a handful of delays and intermissions. Alternating Democrats and Republicans asked the CEOs of those companies a combined 217 questions.
 · amazon · antitrust · apple · facebook · google · not-read

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What a damning civil rights audit missed about Facebook
10 jul. 2020 - In ignoring Facebook’s size, it gave the company a free pass to continue operating mostly as is. But the real audit may come later this month in Congress.
 · black-struggle · facebook · not-read · racist-technology · social-media

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The leader of the Time Well Spent movement has a new crusade
24 apr. 2019 - Tristan Harris says big tech companies are "downgrading" humanity by making us more polarized and distracted. He has a new plan to promote better design.
 · attention · not-read