Author Archives: John Lusk

Thread by @carolecadwalla: “Weird & extraordinary to see this. Facebook fined $5bn. As direct result of our reporting. FTC’s biggest fine ever. Yet such is scale &a […]”

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1149943366848843777.html

Facebook and social media in general is off the rails. Fiction and hearsay at the speed of light. Not to mention the coordination of genocide: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/06/facebook_myanmar_report/.

Thread by @Pinboard: “Microsoft is funding DACA opponents in Congress while warning employees that discussing the donations with one other may constitute ‘harassm […]”

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1148731044935286784.html

The morality of large corporations (of course, this is all Twitter-say):

«Why is Microsoft paying off politicians who want its own employees deported, while simultaneously making a big show of defending DACA in court? It appears to come down to a massive, $10B Pentagon contract for the “war cloud”, for which Microsoft and Amazon are finalists.»