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- "The labor union official offered an apology to Tech Inquiry for pressing for the completion of the investigative project, only to censor it just prior to release. “No one could have predicted Microsoft would become, seek to become a pro-union employer, like that would have been like flying pigs, you know. I never would have predicted that,” the official said."

That's a *revealing* non-apology. "Our conflicts of interest depend on factors beyond our control".

The nonprofit should never have accepted funding from this group. The conflicts of interests cut both ways: if it's unethical to tilt reporting because your funder is friends with the subject, it was also corrupt when the funder had interests adverse to them.




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