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A tiny window into how Harvard's $35 billion endowment was built. The story of why the ultrarich give generously to a an ultrawealthy institution.
I regret to inform you the number has gone up substantially since you last checked it
It fits a larger, apparently organized campaign to suppress any counter-disinformation efforts, in government, academia, and private organizations. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/30/biden-f... The U.S. government has stopped warning some social networks about foreign disinformation campaigns ... ... University academics and disinformat…
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I can't speak to the other green users, but I'm a long time poster who recently created a new account because I decided I didn't want my contributions here tied to my real name anymore, after some real-life concerns about harassment (not from HN, but still trying to play it safer online now).
It's fascinating how we've come to this, where we've let our society be influenced so profoundly by social media platforms and the men who run them. It's bad and I hope we can eventually diffuse the power that's been concentrated in their hands. But they're not the same, these men. Only one of them really scares me. What scares me about Zuck is observable in his public behavior. He knows EXACTLY what he's doing and s…
Indeed. Honestly, I'm quite sure they were excited to see the power of facebook advertising/misinformation during the 2016 campaign.
Maybe as an aside, but why should this research be done at university level? Is it expensive or require their resources? Obviously institutions are at risk of capture by special interests. We can call them non profit but doesn't stop the economics and human nature. Same is true for politicians so oversight could make things even worse as it would be even more centralized and easier to capture . So we should look for…
If it's important research it's good if it's done by a renowned university that brings oversight and credibility for the research. Much better than the same researcher doing it in their basement, unless they are already famous and have their own following. Of course incidents like this and cases where research gets influenced into any direction hurt that benefit of research being done at a university.
I just read that this morning. I'm interested enough in the outcome that I put a calendar reminder 6 months out to check what happened. Doing so made me wonder if there's a service that would email me updates about legal cases like this that I would like to follow.
Sounds like something that anyone claiming to practice Journalism should be doing already.
It fits a larger, apparently organized campaign to suppress any counter-disinformation efforts, in government, academia, and private organizations. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/30/biden-f... The U.S. government has stopped warning some social networks about foreign disinformation campaigns ... ... University academics and disinformat…
(I don't need a fix here, just pointing out some apparent bug.)