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Big Tech Calls for Biden Administration To Let Foreign Workers’ Adult Kids Stay in the U.S.

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Big Tech Calls for Biden Administration To Let Foreign Workers’ Adult Kids Stay in the U.S.
CNN Business reported: A backlog of U.S. green card applications has Silicon Valley giants calling on the Biden administration for new measures to keep adult children of high-skilled immigrant workers from being deported. Tech titans led by Google (GOOG) and including Amazon (AMZN), IBM, Salesforce (CRM), Twitter and Uber sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security on Monday urging the agency to extend the immigration benefits of green card applicants to the applicants’ children who are turning 21.… Read the rest

“Online Persona Management Services” to Allow CIA, etc., to Control Social Media Conversations

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“Online Persona Management Services” to Allow CIA, etc., to Control Social Media Conversations
CENTCOM responded to the news with its typical openness and candor: “The technology supports classified blogging activities on foreign-language websites to enable CENTCOM to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the US,” said spokesman Bill Speaks (how’s that for a sock puppet name, huh?) But of course the internet is international in nature. The contract calls for the sock puppet controllers to employ something called “traffic mixing,” which intends to blend the online presence of the false persona with that of people outside of the operation, in a way that will provide, “...excellent cover and deniability.”