What I'm hearing is that universities coast-to-coast should start "researching" Facebook.
Solid fundraising strategy, to be sure.
Legit ransomware.
Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
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#142Why was Harvard dedicating resources to investigate Facebook in the first place? What kind of academic research was it conducting? "Our hypothesis is that Facebook censored right-wing disinformation campaigns" doesn't have academic value.
how does it not? college isn't just engineering and science
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#143Wow and she is just 18 yo.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think tuition is the problem (in this case!); it's the endless need for "fundraising". If you need to get huge gifts, inevitably you will be corrupted by the needs/wants of the gift givers.
Harvard has over $50,000,000,000 in assets. It sure doesn't seem like it "needs" to raise another $500,000,000. It's greed through and through.
Huh, and where does that big amount come from? By taking huge donations. Its like saying Apple can sell iPhone for free since they are insanely rich. They are reach because they charge large amount of money for a fucking phone. Money either increases or decreases its not gonna stay at same level.
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#145Mods: I'm not sure how I managed to grab this URL, but I believe the canonical version is actually https://whistlebloweraid.org/joan-donovan-press-release/
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#146A tiny window into how Harvard's $35 billion endowment was built. The story of why the ultrarich give generously to a an ultrawealthy institution.
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#147The 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…
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#149> One: Reward and Punishment Superresponse Tendency > I place this tendency first in my discussion because almost everyone thinks he fully recognizes how important incentives and disincentives are in changing cognition and behavior. But this is not often so. For instance, I think I’ve been in the top five percent of my age cohort almost all my adult life in understanding the power of incentives, and yet I’ve always u…
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#150Just a coincidence I’m sure!
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