Platforms vs. PhDs: How tech giants court and crush the people who study them from NYU and Facebook
Platforms vs. PhDs, The increasingly tense relationship between tech businesses and academia is revealed by a legal dispute between researchers from NYU and Facebook. I realised I had a small role to play in the panic that Laura Edelson was experiencing. During one of many panicked phone calls this week, Edelson said to me, “If…