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Sep 30, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: Palantir planned to buy its way in to the NHS by acquiring small companies on the condition they used Palantir’s Foundry data-mining software
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In an email titled “buying our way in” Palantir’s UK head Louis Mosley said this approach would “take a lot of ground and take down a lot of political resistance.”
It could have been saved if doctors had taken my complaints of stabbing flank pain + history of UTIs more seriously.
But, as studies have shown, women’s pain isn’t taken as seriously as men’s.
For years I’ve told doctors I thought my intermittent was kidney-related.
I was repeatedly told it was probably trapped wind, ovulation pain or residual irritation from a UTI.
In fact, my kidney was blocked & over years became swollen to the point where it was nonfunctional.
Oct 25, 2021 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Having spent a long time going through the leaked FB docs it’s clear pockets of FB are painfully aware of how its platform can harm people. It has also conducted countless experiments to try to mitigate those harms.
Its failure to do more seems partly strategic (business priorities) but a lot to do with the left hand not talking to the right hand and other structural inefficiencies in a sprawling bureaucracy
Aug 4, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
It's striking to see how Facebook appears to be cracking down on -- or ignoring -- research that reflects badly on the platform.
Internally it has ignored hate speech & disinfo research & hobbled CrowdTangle.
& now it's shutting down external researchers' access to FB data.
Here's my reporting from last June on Facebook management ignoring research internal looking at racial bias on the platform: nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
Aug 3, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
There is "no place at our company for any type of harassment, discrimination or unequal treatment of any kind" says Activision Blizzard CEO @BobbyKotick opening the Q2 earnings call
🤨🤨🤨 nbcnews.com/tech/video-gam…
Apr 28, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
FB India is currently censoring posts calling for the resignation of the Prime Minister
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"Families in the Inland Empire are being treated like sacrifices," said @emahlee, a founding member of @AMZNforClimate. "It's as if their lives don't matter as much, and that's wrong and needs to be stood up against. It's unacceptable."
Dying to know which Amazon comms person was tasked with trying to discredit the widely reported issue of some drivers feeling so pressured to hit productivity rates that they pee into bottles
Ditto the FB comms people who have to clean up the comments under Zuck's posts
Mar 3, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: In the weeks after Kim Johnson sued her hospital for failing to spot her cancer, hospital workers edited her medical records to make it look like Kim was at fault, her lawyers allege nbcnews.com/news/us-news/k…
The alleged coverup was only discovered after 3 years of litigation & thousands of dollars spent on a digital forensic expert to get hold of the full electronic medical record including the ‘audit trail’ - a log of who accessed and modified the record
Zoom schooling has been a nightmare for many families, but it's been particularly tough for kids with ADHD (or suspected ADHD) nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
Pediatricians and psychiatrists say they've seen an influx in requests from parents to evaluate their kids for ADHD or start them on ADHD meds nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
Dec 28, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Police are increasingly turning to cars' infotainment systems to destroy suspects' alibis
nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
In one case, a man became a murder suspect after police retrieved recordings of his voice from the victim's truck
I thought it might be useful to share some interesting elements from these docs as there is a lot of material nbcnews.com/news/all/leake…
We reported on the big themes back in April, but there are 4,000 pages of the good stuff nbcnews.com/tech/social-me…
