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A Professor Put Her Class on TikTok. Thousands Enrolled in a Digital H.B.C.U.

Leah Barlow, a liberal studies professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, prepared to teach her Intro to African American Studies...

Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring of Daniel Penny to Its Investors

Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, the blue-chip venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, defended to investors their decision to hire Daniel Penny, a Marine...

As Musk Attacks Diversity, Tesla Addressed Racism Complaints

In Washington, Elon Musk has been at the forefront of Trump administration efforts to gut programs designed to promote diversity.At the same time,...

Is Waymo Friend or Foe to Uber?

In 2020, Uber was at a crossroads: The company had made an expensive bet on robot taxis, but the project was laden with...

Google Unwinds Employee Diversity Goals, Citing Trump’s D.E.I. Orders

Google tried for years to diversify its work force, saying it would hire and promote more women and people from racial minorities.On Wednesday,...

In the Eyes of Right-Wing Media, Trump Just Keeps On Winning

President Trump’s first weeks back in the White House have included government groups scrambling to figure out their funding and Wall Street investors...

‘The Antiquities’ Review: Relics of Late Human Life in 12 Exhibits

By a campfire on the shore of Lake Geneva in 1816, five friends take up the challenge of telling the scariest story. Mary...

TikTok, RedNote and the Crushed Promise of the Chinese Internet

The Chinese social media app RedNote is full of cute, heartwarming moments after about 500,000 American users fled to it last week to...

TikTok Starts Working Again After Trump Says He Will Stall a Ban

TikTok flickered back to life in the United States on Sunday after President-elect Donald J. Trump said that he would issue an executive...

Russian Disinformation Campaigns Eluded Meta’s Efforts to Block Them

A Russian organization linked to the Kremlin’s covert influence campaigns posted more than 8,000 political advertisements on Facebook despite European and American restrictions...

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