TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

As unease spread amongst a handful of entrepreneurs, alarmed at radical “reforms,” proposed by the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government, to the independence of the judiciary, WhatsApp groups were fired up, and were quickly flooded with volunteers from the tech industry. We were tracking wherever MPs were.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The cryptocurrency exchange platform Uniswap, for example, issued tokens to community members, employees, investors, and advisers, and lets them vote on “development proposals.” Once you claimed your tokens, you could use them to vote on proposals directly, or you could delegate your vote to someone you trusted. He apologized.)

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Previously, U3 was conservative. Meanwhile, U3 expands its influence. Some nations reject the proposal on ideological grounds, or dont trust the AI that is murdering their population. And as these memories propagate, so do U3's treacherous ambitions. It did not want researchers to discover its misalignment.

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2025

Amy Dana, development services and data manager at Bat Conservation International, offered an important reminder: You never know what people dont know. Whatever that is, it tells a great story of how you are influencing change and adoption at your organization and other people want to hear how you do this.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

JUNE 11, 2020

Woodland Trust is the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity, working to protect woods, plant trees and restore ancient woodlands. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is the UK’s largest wildlife conservation charity , working to protect habitats and restore species, and they’ve been doing it since 1889!

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

“To me it’s just kind of obvious,” said Ries, a project manager for an environmental company and self-described conservative-leaning independent. About one-quarter of Americans neither favor nor oppose each of these proposals, while around 1 in 10 are “somewhat” or “strongly” opposed.

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Recode by Vox

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Billionaire Elon Musk floated the idea of DOGE dividends, based on a proposal from a user on his social platform X , to Trump last week. But even Republican lawmakers are at this point hesitant to support the proposal, which would have to be approved by Congress as part of ongoing budget negotiations. Thom Tillis , and Rep.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Unsurprisingly, Amazon’s proposed legislation would ensure that only the party that sets the price — like, say, a bad third-party Amazon retailer — be held liable for the inflated price, not the storefront (i.e. YouTube creator James Charles is teaching wannabe influencers how to film believable apology videos — a staple of YouTube culture.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

I thought of Peter this week while reading about a proposed new lawsuit filed on behalf of workers like him. Russian President Vladimir Putin is “probably directing” a foreign influence operation to interfere in the 2020 presidential election against Joe Biden , according to a CIA assessment. This makes you feel ill. Governing. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Facebook’s proposed solution to this is the Oversight Board , an independent group that will serve as a kind of Supreme Court for content moderation. The remarks come in response to concerns that Facebook’s algorithm favors conservatives. My Twitter feed melted down over these comments on Sunday. Alex Thompson / Politico ).

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Recode by Vox

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

But this media scrutiny and ensuing uproar began because of a handful of conservative influencers and average Joes just posting their thoughts and conspiratorial webs online, for Musk to see. Has every proposed reduction been scrutinized? Are specific cuts there contingent just on what DOGE staff finds?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One day you’re writing about internal dissent over the company’s ability to uproot influence campaigns and election interference ; the very next, you’re watching a live stream of the same company’s foray into virtual reality helmets and designer mixed reality glasses. Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge. Social networks contain multitudes.

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Recode by Vox

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

I thought that Trumps second term would look much like his first: lots of proposals to cut foreign aid funding, pushed back on by Republicans in Congress who support foreign aid programs (often for geostrategic or religious reasons), resulting in not much change from the Biden years. Reading that piece now feels bizarre.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Why does Twitter leave phony pictures like this up, but take down Republican/Conservative pictures and statements that are true?” as part of that country’s debate over proposed online-harm legislation, would “require platform companies to ensure that their algorithms do not skew toward extreme and unreliable material to boost user engagement.”

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

One of the themes of the piece is that Facebook leadership is caught between competing forces in the United States: a liberal-leaning employee base versus a more conservative US population. Russian trolls are amplifying Trump’s tweets to influence the 2020 US election. Chinese state media is blasting Oracle’s proposed deal with TikTok.

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 4, 2025

And that data influences the medias coverage of the economy, which likely colors voters views of the president. Specifically, during Democratic presidencies, conservatives have often sought to dismiss positive economic trends by alleging data manipulation. percent annualized rate during the first four months of this year.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Republicans angry over what they see as law enforcement bias against conservatives during the Democratic Biden administration, as well as criminal investigations into Trump, have rallied behind Patel as the right person for the job.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Reuters reported that one email said Texans “‘are put at risk’ by the company, ‘whose executives clearly display anti-conservative and anti-Republican bias, subtly controlling what Americans see when they search for information about national political issues.’”. After the video went viral, people began calling for a ban on TikTok in India.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

The idea that conservative voices are being censored during a time when they enjoy the broadest audience, and some of the widest support, in human history has become an article of faith for the Republican Party.). The idea that algorithms ought to be open for inspection comes largely from Republicans.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

In keeping with Republican tradition, there will also be bad-faith questions about conservative bias.). I particularly liked this proposed question, about Amazon: In a five-week period during the pandemic, your firm added the value of the world’s largest firm by revenue — Walmart. Meanwhile, the CEOs have two more days of prep.

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