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Toronto, Ontario
Joined November 2018
Jack Poulson retweeted
🚨Some PROFESSIONAL news🚨 I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve accepted a deputy editor position at @ConsumerReports’ Digital Lab. I’ll be leading evolution of @SecPlanner, reporting on privacy and security, and working on digital rights investigations as part of a fantastic team.
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Jack Poulson retweeted
Critics of Big Tech are alarmed at Biden's top contender for D0J antitrust chief: Renata Hesse worked alongside Ted Cruz defending Google a decade ago, & helped shepherd through the Amazon/Whole Foods merger— her husband currently represents Google. prospect.org/cabinet-watch/b…
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Jack Poulson retweeted
This Friday, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force. A collaboration of activists and diplomats made the #nuclearban a reality - and will help fulfill its potential for nuclear abolition. For more of this story: bit.ly/2M0sJX9 📷: @Bike_at_W4
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I love that the Bitcoin community pretends it is about fighting the government when Coinbase has exercised about $300k in contracts from the FBI and Secret Service. techinquiry.org/explorer/ven…
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Also, Coinbase sent @tech_inquiry a takedown notice this morning for...checks notes...a phone number they provided to the US government.
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Here is a link to the USASpending.gov $250k exercised / $650k potential award to Coinbase from the FBI that lists their phone number as (415) 405-5365 on the FPDS.gov equivalent. usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A…
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Jack Poulson retweeted
NEW: President Joe Biden plans to kill #keystonexl pipeline through an Executive Order *the day* he takes office, according to Transition documents reviewed by @CTVNews. More to come
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This is one of most salient times to recall corporate parentage of media cos. A CNN (owned by AT&T) journalist is calling on his parent co, AT&T, and Comcast (which owns NBC) to stop broadcasting far-right news media. Journalists have beliefs, but their corporate parents do not
Replying to @oliverdarcy
Just a reminder that neither @Verizon, @ATT, nor @comcast have answered any questions about why they beam channels like OAN & Newsmax into millions of homes. Do they have any second thoughts about distributing these channels given their election denialism content? They won't say.
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