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02 Jun Jack Dorsey: Twitter is best when it carries every voice

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Does a platform have to be neutral? That was the question posed to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday by Recode's Peter Kafka at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. The question is an important one, especially now, just a few weeks removed from a report early last month that Facebook, another important platform for publishers, was systematically suppressing conservative news and headlines from appearing in its trending topics section.

02 Jun How Google, Pinterest, And Others Use Internships To Push Their Diversity Initiatives

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"In the world of diversity, things take time," Candice Morgan, Pinterest’s diversity chief told Fast Company when she was hired back in January. Pinterest joined a growing number of companies, including Atlassian, Airbnb, Autodesk, and Twitter, in hiring a dedicated person to lead diversity initiatives; still, significant change takes time, and the numbers haven’t budged that much. Each of the new appointees acknowledge there is work to be done, not only to diversify the employee pool, but to make companies more inclusive.

01 Jun What it looks like when Google pledges to train one million Africans

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About twenty people of all ages gathered earlier this month in a chilly auditorium at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg for Digital 101. The course is aimed at youth, but people of all ages have shown up for a free crash course in web design, search engine optimization, social media and digital marketing.

01 Jun VetTechTrek is creating an e-learning platform to help veterans build careers in the tech industry

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VetTechTrek is a nonprofit founded last year with the goal of helping military veterans network with the technology industry.

01 Jun Black Founders Praise Chase’s $100 Million Investment in Detroit Businesses

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Hajj Flemings, founder of GoKit, is invested in developing the innovation economy in his hometown of Detroit

01 Jun Jedidah Isler: The untapped genius that could change science for the better

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Jedidah Isler dreamt of becoming an astrophysicist since she was a young girl, but the odds were against her: At that time, only 18 black women in the United States had ever earned a PhD in a physics-related discipline. In this personal talk, she shares the story of how she became the first black woman to earn a PhD in astrophysics from Yale — and her deep belief in the value of diversity to science and other STEM fields. "Do not think for one minute that because you are who you are, you cannot be who you imagine yourself to be," she says. "Hold fast to those dreams and let them carry you into a world you can't even imagine."