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Friday, March 28, 2025

Letter to Columbia University Detailing Conditions for Restoration of Funding - Part 7 (Zoom leak)

Various newspapers such as the Wall St. Journal have referred to a mysterious "transcript" of remarks made by the interim Columbia U president in which she seemed to contradict the deal she made with the feds. Below is apparently the source of the transcript:

...The Washington Free Beacon obtained a transcript of the meeting, which seems to have been created because Columbia administrators were unable to disable the Zoom function that generates an audio transcript. The transcript itself captures administrators struggling to prevent the software from creating a transcript and then moving forward without success.

"I am unable to turn it off, for technical reasons, so we’re all just going to have to understand," an unnamed administrator said at the outset. "This meeting is being transcribed. If you are the requester of this, I would ask you to turn it off."

"Yeah, that seems to be the default. I keep telling my people to stop this thing," Olinto, the provost, responded...

Source: https://freebeacon.com/campus/what-columbia-university-president-really-told-faculty-members/.

Moral: it's not just secret military conversations on Signal that leak out. Be careful what you Zoom!

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