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Kairos organizes at the intersection of race, democracy, and techonology. And we build Black & brown political power in the digital realm. Until tech works for all kairosfellows.org

No matter what tech CEOs say in shiny advertisements and in closed-door meetings, Big Tech will not solve the climate crisis, writes Matt Williams, a resident of Vineland, New Jersey, where community members are questioning a massive data center under development to serve Microsoft.

Big Tech Will Not Save Us From the Climate Crisis

No matter what tech CEOs say in shiny advertisements and in closed-door meetings, Big Tech will not solve the climate crisis, writes Matt Williams.

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AI 🤝ICE We cannot forget the ways Big Tech will gladly jump in to support violence against our communities. Kairos’ senior campaigner on AI, Irna, said it best: “Ultimately, ICE is using cloud technology and AI to centralize power.” Read the piece: www.techpolicy.press/how-ice-uses...

How ICE Uses AI to Automate Authoritarianism

From the frontlines of ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis, Kairos Fellows senior campaigner Irna Landrum considers the use of AI in the immigration crackdown.

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Today Amazon released its “Sustainability” report. Predictably, what it leaves out is vastly more important than what it says. Amazon is building a dirty energy empire, spending literally hundreds of billions on data centers that will rely primarily on new fossil fuel infrastructure.

PRESS RELEASE: Amazon Sustainability Report Hides Gas & Coal Empire Powering Company’s AI Ambitions

PRESS RELEASE July 16, 2025 Contact: hello@amazonclimatejustice.org Amazon Sustainability Report Hides Gas & Coal Empire Powering Company’s AI Ambitions Nearly three-quarters of Amazon’s data cente...

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We are witnessing the standards of our major social platforms be negatively altered like never before. Meta gutted fact checking. Meanwhile, X is overrun with disinformation, and TikTok is always teetering on the edge of existence in the U.S.

Big Tech's data centers have real impact: increased electricity prices, power outages, staggering cancer and asthma rates, fewer tax dollars for our schools, and even scarcer water availability in desert communities. Want to know how to fight back? Join us: bit.ly/MJ_WTF_Series

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From our friends at USCPR: Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University has been abducted by the Trump administration after protesting genocide. Demand that universities fight back against fascism and establish themselves as sanctuary campuses: actionnetwork.org/letters/prot...

Tell Universities: Protect Student Rights, Reject Trump's Order

Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting university students who protest Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people.   This order doesn’t just threaten non-citizen and internat...

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Meta is outright allowing people on to use hateful & false statements to harass, discriminate against, and enact violence against women, queer people, and Black and brown communities. The risks aren’t just digital, online threats often result in offline harms. actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Tell Meta: Reinstate Protections for Women, LGBTQ+ People, Black and Brown People on Your Platforms NOW!

On the morning of January 7, less than two weeks before Trump's inauguration, Meta took a gigantic step backward at the expense of every single one of us. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a set of rol...

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"By abandoning fact-checking, Meta is opening the door to unchecked hateful disinformation about already targeted communities like Black, brown, immigrant and trans people, which too often leads to offline violence." -- our Campaign Manager, Nicole in @theverge.com www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...

Meta is leaving its users to wade through hate and disinformation

Meta’s decision to eliminate fact-checking could unleash a flood of disinformation, experts warn.

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