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Wonder if they'll follow Gates Foundation's investment model (& similarly avoid taxation) http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2013/12/gates-foundations-24-most-egregious-investments https://twitter.com/mat/status/671847623347826688
@archive_tweet work your magic please:)
Facebook also seems to be installing itself as the layer between us & democracy &/or dissent. #loligarchy https://twitter.com/nitashatiku/status/720073104131665920
How different would this election have been/felt if Facebook had a (default on) fact-check filter for the newsfeed? http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/6/13509854/facebook-politics-news-bad?
Related: just because billionaires say its "charity," doesn't mean don't ask ?s. Especially when its structured as an LLC. In their names.
Also, why do folks think its inappropriate to ask critical ?s about what billionaires will do with their wealth in the name of charity?
Zuck's Biohub (unlike the Gates Foundation)will not open-source all its work.
Can we stop calling it charity now? https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/chan-zuckerberg-biohub-contract?
Can we stop calling it charity now? https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/chan-zuckerberg-biohub-contract?
So is 'Definitely open' a reversal (or revision) of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's prior policy on open data?
And why the deletions?
And why the deletions?
Good on @lazerow; I hope more of Thiel's peers speak up both publicly & privately. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/peter-thiel-violates-core-principles-silicon-valley-michael-lazerow #loligarchy
Leaving "outing" aside, this from @StephenMarche is spot-on. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/opinion/i-stand-with-gawker.html? #loligarchy
Oddest about the Panama Papers: why didn't these folks just start foundations? #loligarchy http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/the-panama-papers-how-the-worlds-rich-and-famous-hide-their-money-offshore?CMP=share_btn_tw
Amazing Panama Papers map from @BKilmartinIT; would love to see tax rates...& who made donations to CGI or Hillary:) https://briankilmartin.cartodb.com/viz/54ddb5c0-f80e-11e5-9a9c-0e5db1731f59/embed_map?ref=producthunt
wonder if there are so few In US because billionaires are so successful at making tax evasion legal here #loligarchy https://briankilmartin.cartodb.com/viz/54ddb5c0-f80e-11e5-9a9c-0e5db1731f59/
Few from the US are implicated because the wealthy here don't need to bother; they paid to pass laws to not pay tax https://theintercept.com/2016/04/04/a-key-similarity-between-snowden-leak-and-panamapapers-scandal-is-whats-been-legalized/
