What I'm hearing is that universities coast-to-coast should start "researching" Facebook.
Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
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Re: Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
#133The surprise to me is that anyone would ever expect companies like X or Facebook to pay more than lip service to the idea of being an open public platform. These are private companies who want to 1) Attract a lot of eyeballs 2) Sell ad space in front of those eyeballs That's all. To bastardize a Lincoln quote[1]: My paramount object in this struggle is to make a profit and is not either to save or to destroy free spe…
I don’t really see how your comment is at all relevant to the topic at hand. The accusation is that Facebook used a donation to Harvard to silence a critic, it has absolutely nothing to do with whether that criticism is published on Facebook or not.
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#134If you know anything about public policy, Michael Bloomberg's association to Harvard, the Joyce Foundation, and largely anything about behind the scenes at Ivy Leagues at all...
You would know this is typical modus operandi for Harvard.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's possible that a Google Alert[1] might be enough for your use case, depending on how well the legal cases are covered by Google. [1] https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/4815696?hl=en
Any non Google alternatives out there?
This social listening company does one: https://alerts.talkwalker.com/alerts/
They might try to call and email you though.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
what if we had laws that prevented people from obtaining disproportionate amounts of wealth? Seems like it'd be a lot harder to buy a school if being a multi-billionaire is impossible.
This is such a naive viewpoint. Let's say that people are not allowed to have more than 10 million dollars, but corporations are. Then it wouldn't be Zuckerberg's money, it would simply be Facebook's, wielded by Zuckerberg. I hope you can see the ridiculousness is saying that corporations should be limited in wealth as well, but even if you can't, let's assume they are limited the same. Now it becomes easier to buy t…
We should just tax income over $10 million at 90% for both people and corporations. Maybe then we could have an actual healthcare system
Re: Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
The few very large unis i looked into all made massively more money off investment returns than any operational income. the year i reviewed for the university of texas system showed they could have charged zero tuition that year and still make a profit there are absolutely kickbacks for people in control of those endowments choosing specific investment options with their many billions of dollars
My partner works at a major U in the US. Top 200ish. They are solely focused on revenue. Teacher pay rarely raised, but that new upgrade for the stadium at a cool $120m, seems like a great idea. FFS, her dept went past the paper budget for one semester, about 5 years ago. The resolution? Do without paper until the next semester. That's what students insane tuition prices bought them. Apathy over education.
Why are they so focused on that? It seems like a great way to drive a school into the ground.
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#138Wow and she is just 18 yo.
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#139500MM to avoid Harvard scrutiny - not a bad deal on 40MMM quarterly profit. It probably doubles as a tax deduction as well. Free market capitalism at its finest.
wouldn't 40MMM be 40 trillion (40M-million)...?
Re: Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
#140This shouldn't be surprising at all. Harvard and other American universities have taken "donations" from foreign countries for years to hire the "correct" professors to push agendas (and raise the next generation of leaders), just look at the amount money flowing from Qatar for example. Why taking bribes from tech giants is any different? Veritas indeed.
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