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From what I gathered, they didn't simply switch leadership, they removed it entirely, along with the person doing the most work, replacing them with nothing, wh
by ImPostingOnHN 3y ago
From what I gathered, they didn't simply switch leadership, they removed it entirely, along with the person doing the most work, replacing them with nothing, which effectively shut down the project.
Is there someone continuing it that I missed?
- jcheng 3y agoAccording to the complaint, "the project" was FB Archive, which Dr. Donovan came up with the idea for and was the only person in the room with the actual source material. The Public Interest Tech Lab was the organization actually tasked with building out FB Archive, which they did, and it shipped: https://fbarchive.org https://fbarchive.org I think Dr. Donovan's complaint is not that it didn't happen, so much as she was not allowed to play a larger role in it despite having the desire, the people, the funding, and the right--as the person who came up with the idea and the person who provided the material, without which there would be no project. (And then worse, history rewritten to exclude her contributions)
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agoWho exactly did the university get to replace the lead researcher they dismissed*? Who remains at the university doing the research halted by the dismissal* of the lead researcher? * – whether overtly or via constructive dismissal