How Big Tech Money Talks in Academia.

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I'm Lily Dromale. A few weeks back, a former Harvard Misinformation Researcher Researcher

against the university.

It accused officials there of bowing to tech giant meta

when she was ousted from her position last year after a massive donation from the charity of

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

He of course famously launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room.

Harvard denies Donovan's accusations,

but the fallout spotlights the influence big tech

can have on academic institutions.

The Tech Transparency Project they're seeking to influence something and that may not necessarily come in the form of

you know saying something in favor of a particular policy but sometimes that also comes in the

form of how certain views are silenced.

We saw this of course with Harvard and the silencing of Joan Donovan who recently came out as

a whistleblower.

Meta is not trying to explicitly launder an ideology

for a university to say something in favor,

but they're also silencing efforts.

And since you mentioned Joan Donovan earlier, we should

mention that Harvard and the Chan Zuckerberg initiative both have denied

her allegations. Is there anything that you could add to that?

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