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A newsletter & podcast about AI and politics
🎧 DEI: The Season Finale Hey there readers and listeners, Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to Meta’s content policies and also made internal changes to their DEI teams — in that they completely got rid of them. Make no mistake: despite their ‘free speech’ claims, the content moderation will continue. They will still take down pro-Palestinian speech, they will still leave up hate speech. But in a complete reversal of some core content moderation policies — such as...
Our questions of the year Hey there— I know this is likely one of many year-end reflection emails in your inbox, so thanks for even opening! In our final newsletter of 2024 we wanted to center the questions we were most driven by this year, and we’ll wrap this up with our 2025 plans and opportunities to work with you. What’s been on our radar in 2024? The question: Who are the dominant voices in AI coverage, and how are they shaping the narrative? The action: We dug deep into this with our...
🎧 Technology’s role in the climate crisis Hello all — just a quick podcast update from us. We’ve recently wrapped up a miniseries called Net0++. We interviewed activists, researchers, a journalist, and even an expert in concrete (yep) — to help us explore how the tech industry’s business model is worsening the climate crisis. In Big Dirty Data Centres, we heard from Jenna Ruddock and Boxi Wu, who shared their work on data centre expansion — which has ramped up with the AI hype — and how local...