Accountability
Failures and successes of institutional and governmental accountability.
Collection by Charles Baldwin
The Intercept
I’m a Journalist but I Didn’t Fully Realize the Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials Until They Violated My Rights…
12+ min · · I complacently assumed that CBP’s horrendous treatment of migrants wouldn’t affect me directly, least of all in Austin, the city where I was born. · Shared by 104, including Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, 🌏🔎Leigh Alexander 🐬💿✨, Richard Bernabe, Mathew Ingram, Martin Stabe, Miguel, Marcus Schwarze 🚀, 🏳️🌈☕Suzannah Is Being Incorrectly Female☕🏳️🌈, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Charles Baldwin, Bjorn Larsen, Fern
The New York Times
Opinion | Lean Out
5 min · · Perhaps it’s only fair that, as women like Sheryl Sandberg rise to power, they pay the price for failure. But why is everyone so ready to forgive the man who really runs Facebook? · Shared by 90, including anildash.com, Bjorn Larsen, Uri Riera, Charles Baldwin, Simon Wüthrich, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Tom Connor, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Mark Kaigwa
The New York Times
Deutsche Bank Staff Saw Suspicious Activity in Trump and Kushner Accounts
8 min · · Anti-money laundering specialists proposed filing “suspicious activity reports” about transactions connected to President Trump and his son-in-law. Bank managers said no. · Shared by 86, including Brad Brooks, Yvette Dubel, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Scott McLeod
TechCrunch
Facebook is secretly building LOL, a cringey teen meme hub
6 min · · How do you do, fellow kids? After Facebook Watch, Lasso and IGTV failed to become hits with teens, the company has been quietly developing another youthful video product. Multiple sources confirm that Facebook has spent months building LOL, a special feed of funny videos and GIF-like clips. It’s divided into categories like “For You,” “Animals,” […] · Shared by 84, including Matt Navarra, Mathew Ingram, Jane Manchun Wong, Mark Kaigwa, Johannes Lenz, luis antónio santos, Ⓓarío Macchi, Josh Elman, Ste Davies, Charles Baldwin, Gero Pflüger 🫡💙, Ahmad Ragab
FORTUNE
Inside Google's Civil War
18+ min · · Some employees say Google is losing touch with its “Don’t be evil” motto. What happens when an empowered tech workforce rebels? · Shared by 79, including Jane, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, George M 🇪🇺, Mathew Ingram, luis antónio santos, Connecticut SEO, Charles Baldwin, Kiki
Insider Business
Amazon's warehouse worker tracking system can automatically fire people without a human supervisor's involvement
2 min · · Hundreds of Amazon workers have been fired over productivity at just one warehouse in one year. · Shared by 79, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Charles Baldwin, Niklaus Gerber, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Oliver Reichenstein, Thomas Pleil, Thomas Power, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️
The Washington Post
Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business last year
8 min · · The discovery alarmed some advisers to President Trump, who feared that his daughter’s practices bore similarities to the personal email use of Hillary Clinton. · Shared by 78, including Clemens M. Schuster, Charles Baldwin, Yvette d’Entremont (@thescibabe.bsky.social), Nils Hitze, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Oliver Gassner https://mastodon.social/@oliverg, Carly, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
WIRED
Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation
3 min · · Two Google employees who helped organize a November walkout of thousands of employees say they've either been demoted, or been told to drop concerns about ethics. · Shared by 77, including Bjorn Larsen, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Leslie D, Vikram Dutt, Nils Hitze, Backchannel, Oliver Reichenstein, Charles Baldwin, Claudia Sommer, DHH, Richard Gutjahr
MIT Technology Review
It’s time for a Bill of Data Rights
14+ min · · As the US Senate debates a new bill, a data-governance expert presents a plan to protect liberty and freedom in the digital age. · Shared by 77, including René Clausen Nielsen, luis antónio santos, Christopher Allen, Gerd Leonhard, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Thomas Power, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Charles Baldwin
The Verge
Fearing for his life
20+ min · · The story of Ramsey Orta is one of continued and unending police harassment. · Shared by 75, including Kaspar Manz, Esther Schindler, Bjorn Larsen, Florian Hanke 🍎, Mathew Ingram, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Melissa Bell, Mark Kaigwa, Jake Jackson, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor
The New York Times
Facebook and Google Don’t Need Your Data to Make Lots of Money
5 min · · The big ad-tech companies know how to sell ads without damaging privacy, but they choose not to. · Shared by 73, including Rick Powell, Mathew Ingram, Gabriel Weinberg, Thomas Power, luis antónio santos, Charles Baldwin
The New York Times
Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5 Billion by F.T.C. Over Privacy Issues
1 min · · Facebook and the F.T.C. have been in negotiations over a financial penalty for claims that the company violated a 2011 privacy consent decree with the agency. · Shared by 72, including Bjorn Larsen, Mathew Ingram, Charles Baldwin, Antonio Vieira Santos, Thomas Power, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Leslie D, Azeem Azhar, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️
privacyinternational.org
I asked an online tracking company for all of my data and here's what I found
7 min · · It’s 3:10 P.M. on April 18, 2018, I’m in the Privacy International office, reading a news story on the use of facial recognition in Thailand. On April 20, at 21:10, I clicked on a CNN Money Exclusive… · Shared by 70, including Paolo Sinelli, luis antónio santos, Jorge Alcaín Pro, Bruno Skvorc 🦞 | bruno.eth, adrianoesch, Thomas Pleil, Gianluca Diegoli, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org, fernand0, Jane
TechCrunch
Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield
4 min · · Gather a mob and Facebook will now let you make political demands. Tomorrow Facebook will encounter a slew of fresh complexities with the launch of Community Actions, its News Feed petition feature.… · Shared by 69, including luis antónio santos, Charles Baldwin, Liv 😷, adrianoesch, Thomas Power, DHH, Clemens M. Schuster, Daniel Jörg, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Matt Navarra, Amber Mac
Nieman Lab
The Guardian’s nifty old-article trick is a reminder of how news organizations can use metadata to limit misinformation » Nieman…
5 min · · If we know lots of people on social will only glance at our headlines and not tap through, why can't we bring better information to them where they are? · Shared by 66, including Tom Connor, Nieman Reports, Joshua Benton, Chris Moran, Eric Sinclair, Mathew Ingram, luis antónio santos, Mark Needham, Charles Baldwin, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Millie Tran
The Washington Post
7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion
3 min · · Guatemalan child entered illegally with her father as part of a large group crossing into New Mexico. · Shared by 65, including Carly, Bjorn Larsen, Mac McCann, Zach Weinersmith, Liliane Ferrari ™, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Scott Hanselman 🌮, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Charles Baldwin, #MuskOut (not parody), Amnesty Schweiz