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So, when Bill Ackman says he wants a list of students names who are ‘pro Hamas’, he can easily get one?

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There are deep connections between some of the organizations mentioned in this article and the firing of the university presidents, but that is a separate article. And, as linked in this article, Hetz board member David Magerman received national press for pulling his donations to UPenn.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/18/business/upenn-donor-israel/index.html

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Have you heard of a firm HireRight? I just heard about it on System Update with Glenn Greenwald. Apparently, HireRight is a firm that Sullivan &Cromwell are using to weed out pro Palestinian ivy league law students.

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Yes, HireRight had partnered with Fama Technologies when I last looked into it several years ago, and Fama was doing very questionable AI "background checks" of candidates' social media feeds, including very puritanical (and often wrong) flags of twitter likes.

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