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Why do white men clam up when conversations steer toward race? Why are white women prone to crying when discussing this topic (and how can those tears ...
Facebook, social proof, and violence.
Advertisers will no longer be able to hide their ads from people interested in things like “Passover,” “Evangelicalism,” “Native American culture,” “Islamic culture,” and “Buddhism.”
“All white people have internalized a racist worldview.”
For a while now, I've been thinking about how terms like "white privilege," "inclusion" and "unconscious bias" all sound just... too nice. Don't they seem a little on the pleasant side for words used to address a system of racist oppression?
Do people display different racial biases towards black robots and white robots? A new study says yes
Nature - Computer scientists must identify sources of bias, de-bias training data and develop artificial-intelligence algorithms that are robust to skews in the data.
Facebook fails to comprehend the nature of Holocaust denial and other forms of bigotry—and so it's aiding their spread, instead of combatting them.
Although every other major website manages somehow.
Maria O’Hara (Reading List Services Support Co-Ordinator) outlines why we need to question the existing structures of the Library, namely our classification system -Dewey Decimal – a sy…
Two new books show that for the poor, privacy has never been on offer
On Wednesday, a Facebook employee in Nigeria shared footage of a minor inconvenience that he says speaks to tech’s larger diversity problem. In the video, a white man and a dark-skinned black man both try to get soap from a soap dispenser. The soap dispenses for the white man, but not the darker skinned man. After a…
On March 14th, I woke up in California to a flurry of shocking messages from friends, social media posts and press articles about the previous day's assassination of Marielle Franco, a young Brazilian politician and outspoken human rights activist. I didn’t know Marielle personally, probably becau
In order to counter systemic bias in peer production projects like Wikipedia, a variety of strategies have been used to fill gaps and improve the completeness o...
And that means they’re illegal.
Rarely has a singular entity come to control so much of our world's information so swiftly. In September 1998, the Google search engine launched. By June 2006,