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New from me in The Guardian: Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's massive philanthrocapitalist org CZI is now gutting all internal and external DEI efforts and grants, and it's scrubbed its website of mentions of its diversity work. Whole pages, quotes from Chan, blurbs on staff, all gone.

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in January: "Meta’s changes to its DEI efforts does not impact ours." Chan Zuckerberg Initiative now: "We will no longer have a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility team at CZI." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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With this EO, Trump is explicitly seizing control of agencies meant to operate free from presidential interference, such as the FCC, FTC, FEC and financial regulators. Now any new regulations must go through the White House. Monumental change here. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that

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Read my weekly newsletter about tech and [insert here] www.theguardian.com/technology/s...

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RIP to all the Facebook Live broadcasts I did for BuzzFeed News techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/f...

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Why facts online are so fungible

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Why the Paris AI summit failed

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I’m old enough to remember my own headline

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I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

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she's going for the pardon, huh people.com/elizabeth-ho...

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New: Google execs addressed employees after announcing changes to its DEI & AI policies. On DEI: Google announced it's sunsetting DEI trainings. On AI in weapons: The head of legal said it's "good for society" for Google to be part of evolving geopolitical convos. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Scoop: @jmbooyah.bsky.social got inside a Google all-staff meeting as employees reckon with the new version of their company www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Did Mark Zuckerberg ever consider DEI a priority, despite Meta's public pronouncements? www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

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A big lol at Spotify’s recent obvious recent PR play

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The long and hopeful saga of diversity at Meta, which ultimately turned into a painful and bitter ordeal for employees who worked on it www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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Meta, Microsoft, Google say they r committed 2 cash 4 AI

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Reviewed a play about AI doomerism

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Thank you Meta for finally addressing my biggest problem with your apps (they protect my privacy too much)

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Elon: “Btw, at PayPal, we had the detailed financial data of 100M+ people. Never once was it abused.” New York Department of Financial Services: PayPal paid a fine for failing to protect customers’ social security numbers three weeks ago.

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Good god this news alert is so grim it’s giving me visions of Charlie Manson as governor of California

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extremely jealous of this story, very smart reporting. Wild shit. SEO baby www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I simply must shout out Wired’s incredible coverage of Doge

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NEW: Days after Trump's inauguration, ICE changed the timestamp on its archive of press releases to 1/24/2025--causing a flood of stories about mass arrests to shoot to the top of Google search An immigration atty said "it was creating terror in the community” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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An excellent Guardian exclusive by @darakerr.bsky.social: Trump admin manipulating old press releases to con people into believing it's conducting a ton of deportations. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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ICE has an evergreen content strategy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Mark Zuckerberg’s charity confirms support for DEI despite Meta’s overhaul. It's also ordered employees back to the office. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The logical endpoint of the tactics of the SEO industry www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Thousands of ICE press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Recipe blogger ass government agency

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Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email

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New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”

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Route 4 in Paramus, NJ, yesterday. Posted on Facebook by John Weir @jweirdo.bsky.social.

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Musk Shows Us What Actual Government Censorship On Social Media Looks Like www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/m...

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A new frontier in harassment: As part of a seven-year stalking campaign against a professor, a man used AI chatbots to give strangers her home address and invite them there for sex www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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"James Florence, 36, used platforms such as Crushon. ai and JanitorAI, which allow users to design their own chatbots and direct them how to respond to other users during chats, including in sexually suggestive and explicit ways, according to court documents seen by the Guardian."

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I love spam

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Lol and lmao, how predictable

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Extremely strange answer from DeepSeekto “Who is Ai Weiwei?”—it started responding with a fleshed out, fairly neutral description, then deleted it and said the question was “out of its scope”

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Regarding Samoa www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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@montgomery.bsky.social answers all the questions that have been brewing in my mind about what this very visual shift in US power dynamics means for us. Some of the new tech barons - like #ElonMusk now have a role in US government. But who really has the power? #FullStory @australia.theguardian.com

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I’m talking tech titans today on Guardian Australia’s podcast open.spotify.com/episode/5tEK...

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Newsletter scoop: Don Lemon has expanded his suit against Elon Musk to include claims of defamation, retaliation, breach of implied contract and harassment – and two new defendants: CEO Linda Yaccarino and X’s head of content, talent and brand sales, Brett Weitz www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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