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movement. After the firing, Civis Analytics initially released a statement claiming that had not fired any employees for tweeting academic papers, but later retracted that statement and replaced it with a new statement that omitted that claim. In 2021, Wasow was quoted as having concluded from his
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Civis Analytics helps businesses "understand their data, use that data to make predictions, and get recommendations on what steps to take next". Civis works with Fortune 500 companies and the country's largest organizations, including
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conversations with Civis Analytics and Shor that "at the heart of it was how was treated on Twitter by people who essentially shot the messenger"; Wasow dismissed accusations of racism or otherwise acting improperly as "baseless".
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Eleven employees were laid off on October 30, 2020. In December, seven of them filed
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Mounk, Yascha. Stop Firing the Innocent. The Atlantic, June 27, 2020.
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for wrongful termination. In July 2021, the NLRB dismissed the claim.
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In 2020, the company faced controversy for firing employee
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after he tweeted a short summary of an academic paper by
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Index

Eric Schmidt
Dan Wagner
data science
Dan Wagner
Eric Schmidt
Barack Obama
Verizon
Airbnb
Discovery
FEMA
Boeing
American Red Cross
David Shor
Omar Wasow
Princeton University
Black Lives Matter
unfair labor practice
NLRB
Dan Wagner (data scientist)
ORCA (computer system)
Project Houdini
Project Narwhal
Psychographic
Predictive Analytics


"Eric Schmidt-backed data science startup Civis Analytics raises $ 22M"
"How Obama's Team Used Big Data to Rally Voters"
"Civis Analytics takes Obama data lessons to next level"
"Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting"

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