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4 Things To Know : NPR

Google’s Sundar Pichai, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey face Congressional scrutiny over the spread of misinformation on their platforms. Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images/Composite by NPR hide caption toggle caption … Source link

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Google Workers Launch Union To Press Grievances With Executives : NPR

More than 200 engineers and other workers have formed a union at Google, a breakthrough in labor organizing in Silicon Valley where workers have clashed with executives over workplace culture, diversity and ethics. Across half a dozen Google offices in the U.S. and Canada, 226 workers signed cards to form the Alphabet Workers Union, the group said on Monday. They are supported by the Communications Workers of America, which… Source link

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Google Researcher Discusses Departure : NPR

Timnit Gebru talks to Steve Inskeep about her departure from Google after raisng questions about gender, race and the ethics behind artificial intelligence. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Google faces pressure from outside and inside. The outside pressure comes from lawsuits. A third big suit came yesterday. State attorneys general accused Google of giving its own products priority in search results. We report this morning on the inside pressure. Many employees… Source link

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