Last fall, shortly after completing his purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk sent a message to a skittish corporate community: Trust me.“Twitter aspires to be the most respected advertising platform in […]
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Back to news homeBlack Americans Are Much More Likely to Face Tax Audits, Study Finds
WASHINGTON — Black taxpayers are at least three times as likely to be audited by the Internal Revenue Service as other taxpayers, even after accounting for the differences in the […]
Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Under Elon Musk Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find
On Twitter itself, researchers said the increase in hate speech, antisemitic posts and other troubling content had begun before Mr. Musk loosened the service’s content rules. That suggested that a […]
California Panel Sizes Up Reparations for Black Citizens
The state and local efforts have faced opposition over the potentially steep cost to taxpayers and, in one case, derided as an ill-conceived campaign to impose an “era of social […]
CUNY Graduates With Tech Degrees Struggle to Land Tech Jobs
The technology industry has been a leading engine of growth for good-paying jobs in New York City over the past decade. That trend continued through the pandemic, but a new […]
After Hollywood’s #MeToo Reckoning, a Fear It Was Only Short-Lived
The movement led to increased diversity and representation in the entertainment industry, but now there is worry that executives have turned their attention elsewhere. Read More
Inflation Reduction Act Rewrites Embattled Black Farmer Relief Program
WASHINGTON — A $4 billion program to help Black and other “socially disadvantaged” farmers that never got off the ground last year amid legal objections will be replaced with a […]
Inflation Reduction Act to Rewrite Embattled Black Farmer Relief Program
WASHINGTON — A $4 billion program to help Black and other “socially disadvantaged” farmers that never got off the ground last year amid legal objections will be replaced with a […]
Microsoft Plans to Eliminate Face Analysis Tools in Push for ‘Responsible A.I.’
For years, activists and academics have been raising concerns that facial analysis software that claims to be able to identify a person’s age, gender and emotional state can be biased, […]
Racist and Violent Ideas Jump From Web’s Fringes to Mainstream Sites
“The fact that this act of barbarism, this execution of innocent human beings, could be livestreamed on social media platforms and not taken down within a second says to me […]