I can confirm this is true and I can also say that the lack of an eviction moratorium is fueling this trend.

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Ok but this energy regarding the concentration camps and secret police

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Those *same* authoritarian tycoons have destroyed the jobs of *fifty times* as many workers in the tech industry in the last 3 years as have lost jobs in journalism. (I say that for scale, not comparison — I know journalism has been suffering longer.) Those workers are targeted for the same reasons.

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I think people outside of tech don't understand that the workers who have been cut are disproportionately from underrepresented and marginalized groups, are those doing "soft" (more human) roles like design, HR (especially inclusion), and product work, and were often quiet targeting of advocates.

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Everybody doing work to protect people on tech platforms, in fields like trust & safety, or trying to make sure systems were more responsible or accountable, often by taking on the most thankless and soul-wrenching work — that's who has borne the brunt of these layoffs. Which were executed cruelly.

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