This week in tech: Elon Musk and Donald Trump flood the zone and deploy brinkmanship as a negotiating tactic; US Immigration and Customs Enforcement learns search engine optimization amid arrests and deportations; and Spotify tries to soften its algorithmic image with human-centric public relations.
US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) updated thousands of press releases on 24 January, making old press releases seem new in Google search results, befuddling a longtime immigration lawyer’s search for enforcement actions.
How Musk and Trump are flooding the zone Musk raids a dizzying swath of agencies with the goal of ‘slashing waste and fraud’ as the two deploy brinkmanship.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man in charge of the “department of government efficiency”, has raided an equally dizzying swath of federal agencies with the stated goal of “slashing waste, fraud, and abuse”.
Trump and Musk are doing their utmost to “flood the zone” – a tactic that the former Trump administration strategist Steve Bannon has touted as one that will purposefully overwhelm the opposition and the media.
