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Amazon Staten Island Workers Unionize in a Historic First
A scrappy group of Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, has taken on the trillion-dollar ecommerce company and won.…
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Labor Unions Face Historic Votes at Amazon
Bradley Moss is having a busy year. A consultant with union-avoidance firm The Burke Group, Moss has been paid by…
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Why Big Tech Companies Have Been Quiet on Texas’ Abortion Law
Most companies that signed the letters were midsize tech and consumer brands trying to attract younger customers and workers, says…
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The Government Wants to Bolster Its Tech—Starting With Workers
The General Services Administration is among the lesser-known arms of US government, but it has surprising reach. It owns or…
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This Facebook Whistleblower Hearing Will Be Different
The only safe prediction to make about the Senate’s Facebook hearing today is that, for the first time in a…
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Who’s Winning the War Between Biden and Facebook? Fox News
“All my research is on things that social media platforms can do to make things better,” said David Rand, a…
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China’s Nationalistic ‘Wolf Warriors’ Blast Foes on Twitter
On Monday, Li Yang, China’s consul general in Rio de Janeiro, took to Twitter to mock the rescue efforts following…
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The US Government Is Finally Moving at the Speed of Tech
In the summer of 2017, my boss at the Washington Monthly, a policy-focused magazine in DC, asked me to cover…
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How Some Americans Are Breaking Out of Political Echo Chambers
Last October, students in Sarah Candler’s seventh-grade English class in rural Tennessee were discussing the presidential election, echoing each other’s…
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A New Antitrust Case Cuts to the Core of Amazon’s Identity
“I founded Amazon 26 years ago with the long-term mission of making it Earth’s most customer-centric company,” Jeff Bezos testified…
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