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I'm not sure what word would be better since "after" carries the same implication.
https://live-whistleblower-aid.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/up...
To sum up the first few pages after skimming it, Facebook tried to bribe her (well "fund" her research), she refused. Later she had a meeting with the former head of comms at Facebook, who was now on the Dean's council, where he became incredibly angry with her research (page 4, 13). Following this, she got an email from the Dean of the Kennedy school which sounds very much like someone tattled to them and they now want to "review" her research (see page 5, 15). It continues from here.
From regulatory capture through revolving doors and lobbying, to media capture through purchase, and now academic capture through donation, it seems no activity is safe from large concentrations of wealth.
And it never will be. This is a human problem. No amount of laws and regulations will ever solve it.
Harvard isn't about "veritas", it's about $$$.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/20/tech-billionaire-ai...
I wonder what the grand total spent was here? "PR expenses"
From regulatory capture through revolving doors and lobbying, to media capture through purchase, and now academic capture through donation, it seems no activity is safe from large concentrations of wealth.
Politics (as in the game of power) and corruption are human nature. Pushing back against these are equally human nature. The worse it gets the more intense the push back. The push back seems to be at moment taking the shape of voting in far right or trump like politicians accross the world. They won't solve the issue. Therefore the next level of intensity may very well be revolution.
From regulatory capture through revolving doors and lobbying, to media capture through purchase, and now academic capture through donation, it seems no activity is safe from large concentrations of wealth.
And it never will be. This is a human problem. No amount of laws and regulations will ever solve it.
The linked blog doesn't actually include any details and is instead just a vitriolic series of paragraphs from what sounds like an angry fired employee. It's hard to actually believe anything about this without having specific examples of what was done. The title is pretty farcical given this.