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Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by canpolat@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] tquid@kbin.social 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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Eduards Sizovs has been shown creating fake female speaker profiles for his conferences. He is claiming one of them was a test/bug, but investigation uncovered he's done this for multiple years with multiple fake speakers. This presented a fraudulent focus on diversity.

LOL.

[–] QuadriLiteral@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

This presented a fraudulent focus on diversity.

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