NoEthicsInBigTech

Changing their name doesn't change reality: Facebook is destroying our democracy and is the world's leading peddler of disinformation and hate. Tech ethicists and branding professionals on Thursday said consumers should not be hoodwinked by Facebook's name change, which numerous observers compared to earlier efforts by tobacco and fossil fuel companies to distract attention from their
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"When you include their untaxed wealth growth in the calculation, many billionaires pay almost nothing," said Frank Clemente of Americans for Tax Fairness. JAKE JOHNSON May 19, 2022 When their astronomical wealth gains are taken into account, dozens of the top billionaires in the United States paid an average federal tax rate of just 4.8% from 2013 to
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"As the people who build the technologies that Microsoft profits from, we refuse to be complicit." Corporations that contract with President Donald Trump's immigration agencies faced harsh rebuke this week both from within their ranks and from outside critics over their complicity with the Trump administration's separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border. More than 100 employees
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In an attempt to evade the long arm of U.S. intelligence that could mark a sea change in internet privacy, Microsoft has announced plans to build two new data centers in Germany that will store user information in a secure network and not allow access to anyone—including the U.S. government and Microsoft staff themselves—without explicit
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Microsoft Corp. is currently sitting on almost $29.6 billion it would owe in U.S. taxes if it repatriated the $92.9 billion of earnings it is keeping offshore, according to disclosures in the company's most recent annual filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The amount of money that Microsoft is keeping offshore represents a significant
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Amazon should welcome our voices and our deep knowledge of the business. Want to know why there's a sudden wave of workers organizing to form unions across the country? A lot of reasons, to be sure, but more than anything, I believe: Workers want to be heard. We spend most of our waking hours on the job,
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As ordinary workers across the United States watched inflation eat away at modest wage gains in 2021, many corporations—including firms contracting with the federal government—used record-shattering profits to lavish their CEOs with bigger pay packages and reward shareholders with billions of dollars in stock buybacks. According to an analysis published Tuesday by the Institute for Policy
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The bill is being praised as "simple, bipartisan, wildly popular with voters, and a good first step toward reining in Big Tech."Amazon and tech giants are mounting a big-money push to tank bipartisan antitrust legislation its proponents say rightly takes on concentrated corporate power undermining small businesses and democracy. Introduced in October by lead co-sponsors Sens.
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"It is time for Amazon to end its blatant disregard of labor law and treat workers with the respect and dignity they deserve." COMMON DREAMS STAFF June 11, 2022 Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) Friday sent a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy urging him to drop the company's objections to the
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