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Fed Tech Roundup November 4

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of Energy CTO, Principal. Dodging 'fatal errors' for Census 2020 tech - FCW.com. DISA tees up new round of contracts - FCW.com. Task force to hammer out drone registration guidelines - GCN.com (blog). Former DOE CTO Tseronis joins Deep Water Point - FCW.com (blog). MarketWatch. We have a budget deal.

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Parler, the “free speech” Twitter wannabe, explained

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Open the app, there are profiles pushing doubt about the 2020 election’s results and declarations that the mainstream tech platforms are targeting free speech. In the final days of the 2020 election, Parler’s popularity exploded. pic.twitter.com/pzUFvhipBZ — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 25, 2020. Currently, Parler is No.

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Parler, the “free speech” social network, explained

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You may have heard more about Parler in the runup to the 2020 election when conservatives touted it as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook. Open the app, and there are profiles pushing doubt about the 2020 election’s results and declarations that the mainstream tech platforms are targeting free speech. Let’s speak.

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What Meta employees really think about their company’s brutal year

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The survey results came around the time that rumors of layoffs started to swirl and the company had instituted a hiring freeze. After the tech giant aggressively hired more than 27,000 employees in 2020 and 2021 combined, it had over 80,000 employees before its November layoffs. You are down 71.1%

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