📰 Meet the Press: How tech workers and journalists can achieve change together - Tuesday, Mar 1st @ 8pm ET
The Tech Workers Coalition, Tech Workers Union Local 1010, and The Signals Network are hosting a live event to inform tech workers about how they can safely work with journalists and better understand how journalists are covering their industry.
The event will cover issues about rules when working with the press, what journalists consider when talking with tech employees, what journalists think about when talking with whistleblowers, how journalists can be allies in achieving impact, being careful when working with reporters, and secure communication, among other issues.
This session will be an informal and off the record conversation with tech journalists who have decades of experience covering the tech industry and working with employees who speak out about workplace harms. The forum will open with short talks from each speaker on their area of expertise and move into an open Q&A where workers will be free to chat directly with these journalists
Speakers:
- Jeff Horwitz - Technology Reporter at the Wall Street Journal
Led the Facebook Files Investigations and worked with Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen.
- Julia Carrie Wong - Technology Reporter for The Guardian
Led the series of stories from Facebook whistleblower Sophie Zhang.
- Matt Drange - Senior Correspondent at Business Insider
Led investigation into NDAs in the tech industry and worked with many tech employees on the project.
- Zoë Schiffer - Senior Tech Reporter at the Verge
Covering labor, workplace organizing, and technology investigations, including recent in-depth stories on Netflix and Apple.
RSVP for the Zoom event here: http://bit.ly/mtp-techlabor
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📰 An Ethical Google, and Other Fairy Tales
Last Wednesday, researchers Alex Hanna and Dylan Baker quit Google’s Ethical AI team and wrote letters about how Google maintains white supremacy and inequalities amongst their workforce. Both are joining the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, or DAIR, which Timnit Gebru formed after being fired in late 2020. Today, we’re reprinting both of their letters in full.
Read more: https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2022/02/08/issue-3/
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