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Twiggy brings in big brains in fight to clean up tech sector’s bad ads – Sydney Morning Herald
Mining magnate Andrew Forrest is adding academic firepower in his fight to clean up the tech sector after his likeness was used to swindle a Western Australian woman out of nearly $700,000 in an online scam.
“As your socially reprehensible recalcitrance has continued, a concerted international effort is required to secure independent oversight and accountability for Facebook’s operations,” he said in the letter.
The network will be made up of ‘nodes’ at the universities of Cambridge, New York, California, Oxford and Western Australia to “tackle lawlessness, empower workers, and reimagine technology”.
One star recruit is professor Professor Safiya Umoja Nobile, who in 2018 exposed the inherent raci…
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