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Buzzfeed has published an internal Facebook memo entitled “The Ugly” from 2016 that shows just how much emphasis the social network places on growth above safety, privacy and everything else. Written by Facebook VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, one of Mark Zuckerberg’s staunchest allies, the memo tries to defend the social network’s “questionable contact importing practices” […]
GUEST: I just read Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley. It was both eye-opening and cringe-worthy. The book explores the role of gender in the tech industry – at startups and venture capital firms – and the interaction between men and women in the two. While Silicon Valley has grown to have […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby recently sent a condescending memo to his employees. In the memo, he nixed a pay bonus in favor of a rewards raffle — much to the chagrin of his staff. In this op-ed, the author argues that the tone and words Kirby used in the memo show he is […]
Joshua Roberts/Reuters Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released a memo to counter Republican claims of corruption and bias against President Donald Trump at the FBI and the Justice Department. The memo attempts to undercut Republicans’ claims the FBI and the DOJ misled a secret surveillance court when it submitted an application to spy on […]
House Democrats released a 10-page memo Saturday that shows just how misleading the original #ReleaseTheMemo campaign was. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a91e2ea4e7600696b557b18/master/pass/AdamSchiff-AP_18036850910867.jpg
Published time: 24 Feb, 2018 23:47 Edited time: 24 Feb, 2018 23:54 US President Donald Trump has dismissed the memo released by the US House Intelligence Committee Democrats as a “total political and legal bust.” “The Democrat memo response on government surveillance abuses is a total political and legal BUST. Just confirms all of the […]
Former Google engineer Tim Chevalier sued the company, claiming he was fired for sharing politically liberal posts on Google’s internal message boards. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a8df39a183e80505b186a31/master/pass/ExGoogler-869661450.jpg
James Damore may claim Google was wrong to fire him over his memo criticizing the company’s diversity culture, but a federal government overseer begs to differ. The National Labor Relations Board has published a January memo recommending a dismissal of Damore’s then-active complaint. Board attorney Jayme Sophir found that Damore was protected under federal law […]
(credit: Shutterstock) Former Google engineer James Damore has attempted to take civil and legal action against his former employer after being fired in August, but on Thursday, a federal memo revealed that one of Damore’s filings has been unequivocally denied. The National Labor Relations Board published its memo this week, which was issued in January […]
J. Scott Applewhite/AP In what was perhaps the most momentous week in the Russia investigation so far, headlines were dominated by the release of a highly controversial memo by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee. The document’s central claim is that the Department of Justice and FBI bypassed proper protocol when they sought a warrant […]
