This came out of a lot of collective thinking from the incredible group of platform scholars at the Institute for Advanced Study, convened by @alondra.bsky.social.
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The Hidden Dangers of Eliminating Taxes on Tips | Opinion
Instead of holding consumers accountable for sharing their data responsibly as privacy laws currently do, we must hold platform companies and our government accountable for the responsible stewardship...
"No taxes on tips" was supposed to help low-wage workers, but because of the platforms used for tipping and Trump's steamrolling of data protections, it may instead
have dire consequences for them.
@hannahwohl.bsky.social, Lindsey Cameron, & I in Newsweek today. tinyurl.com/yc27dah7
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Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
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