'Do Not Discuss the Incident,' Facebook Told Employee Fired After Speaking About Worker Suicide. ed.gr/bz1o2

Thatcher's disastrous internet decision 🤦🏾‍♂️ Facebook caught cosying up with Brett Kavanaugh 🤦🏾‍♂️ This multi-million dollar fake news factory on Google's ad platform 🤦🏾‍♂️ This week's newsletter. Happy reading! - mailchi.mp/b9b9d78540ea/p…

Labour vows to get more tax out of Apple, Amazon and Google. ed.gr/bz1o1

Facebook allows prominent right-wing website to break the rules according to Popular Info. ed.gr/bz1oz

General election: WhatsApp messages urge British Hindus to vote against Labour. ed.gr/bz1or

Hundreds of fake Facebook account admins and 1,929 Facebook advertising violations only begin to tell the story of the Epoch Times-linked, pro-Trump empire known as The BL. ed.gr/bz1n3

Tech bros in silicon valley are dopamine fasting, whatever that means. ed.gr/bz1ov

It's barely one week of the UK election and the bullshit Facebook ads are already running riot. ed.gr/bz1on

Chance to win some useful+cool free shit? ☑️ Questionably light-hearted emoji use for serious/harrowing stories? ☑️ An extremely light-on-detail update on that video game we're building? ☑️ This week's newsletter ladies and gentlemen. mailchi.mp/db10340ec94f/p…

Father of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is launching an initiative to fix the web and stop it sliding into a "digital dystopia". ed.gr/b0vnz

“We used to let gas stations pour oil down the sewer, and we let mines leave tailings on the side of the hill,” he said. “Then we realized, Wait a minute, the externalities have a very high cost, and the people who create them need to bear it.” ed.gr/b0vo4

Your last chance to win from free stuff... - eepurl.com/gK2pib

The WSJ's tech briefing podcast breaks down the not-so-boring-but-sounds-very-boring business of political advertising online, spend, laws and micro-targeting. Again, it *sounds* dry but it *is* very interesting. ed.gr/b0vmt

Porn, public transport and other..... dubious.... justifications for using facial recognition software. ed.gr/b0vng

"One transcriber working for Rev says that, for them, the recordings that graphically detail someone being abused or assaulted are the most difficult to get through." ed.gr/b0vm3

"Despite the climate crisis that our planet faces, Big Oil is doubling down on fossil fuels. Now, with the help of tech companies like Microsoft, oil companies are using cutting-edge technology to produce even more." ed.gr/b0von

Smart CCTV networks are driving an AI-powered apartheid in South Africa. ed.gr/b0vn4

"More than 60 countries will hold elections in 2020. Facebook and Google will be important variables in almost all of them. The first of these elections will be in January in Taiwan, where more than 89% of adults use Facebook regularly" Yikes. ed.gr/b0vn9

Jerold Haas was on the brink of blockchain riches. Then his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio. ed.gr/b0vmy

White nationalists are openly operating on Facebook. The company won't act. ed.gr/b0vnc