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Karen Weise
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@nytimes Seattle tech correspondent. Ex- @BW @technology @ProPublica. Views=mine. Talk to me! DMs open, on Signal, karen.weise@nytimes.com
Jan 13, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
A few things from Amazon’s response to the Parler suit... There were many examples of vile and violent speech on Parler and this claim that Parler’s content moderation was so woefully inadequate for its scale, that it had a backlog 26,000 reported posts to review Image As @b_fung points out, Amazon invoked Section 230, essentially saying it was obligated to remove violent content from its platform
Nov 27, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Tried hard not to break the @NYTimes style guide & use words like "historic" and "unprecedented" in this piece on Amazon's hiring binge.

Historians and labor economists say the closest equivalent the hiring of entire industries carried out in wartime 1/ nytimes.com/2020/11/27/tec… A scoop tucked in here that on top of its 1.2+ million employees, internal documents show that Amazon now has about 500,000 delivery drivers, who are contractors not its direct employees. (These are Flex/gig workers and DSP drivers) 2/
Jul 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Remember when Amazon VP @timbray quit in May? Since then, he's been building a much broader critique of Amazon's power, and how the sheer bigness of Amazon and other large companies are distorting politics, policies and labor markets.

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nytimes.com/2020/07/22/tec… “I am not in some radical fringe because I think the wealth and power in the 21st century is overly concentrated,” @timbray says.

He says antitrust enforcement is “one of the most powerful political programs" to correct the power imbalances of inequality 2/
May 8, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NEWS: 3 Somali women working for Amazon near Minneapolis have filed an EEOC charge accusing the company of creating a hostile environment for Muslim workers and of retaliating against them for protesting their work conditions 1/ nytimes.com/2019/05/08/tec… The East African workers at the warehouses near Minneapolis have become one of the most organized groups of Amazon warehouse employees in the country 2/
Nov 20, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
You guys, something really interesting is happening with Amazon workers in Minnesota. A group of Somali workers organized and appear to be the first known group in the US to push Amazon to the table
nytimes.com/2018/11/20/tec… Labor organizers and researchers told me they haven't heard of this happening in the US before