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“Our demands have been ignored by Amazon, and we’ve had enough.”

Aug. 17, 2022

Inland Empire Amazon Workers United, commenting after 160 Amazon employees walked out of a San Bernardino, Calif., warehouse on Aug. 15 to demand higher wages, safer working conditions and the end of retaliation at the facility. (The Hill — Aug. 16, 2022)

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“This is going to be the beginning of the end, where they stop everything under the guise of security and contraband.”

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[Combating misinformation is crucial] "to protect the civic conversation on Twitter, and to make it easier to find reliable information about elections."

Twitter spokesperson Elizabeth Busby on the social media company’s plans to roll out safeguards early in the election season, with protections for "real-time election information from state election officials, plus local news outlets and journalists." There is mounting concern about how misinformation could impact the upcoming elections. (CNET — August 11,2022)

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“Just because this is a digital financial product doesn’t mean that established law on the books is no longer applicable.”

Senior Researcher at the Revolving Door Project Timi Iwayemi, regarding the attempt to create new banking and finance laws for cryptocurrencies and how most laws already adequately address digital assets and protect consumers compared to proposed alternatives. (CQ-Roll Call — Aug. 9, 2022)

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