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People are engaging more on Facebook with content from outlets that publish falsehoods and distortions, even though the social network has tried limiting misinformation, new research found.

#facebook #misinformation #election #social media

Some low-income students have dropped out, and there are growing concerns about hunger and homelessness.

Is the purpose of colleges to serve communities? If so they are doing a poor job.

#generation z #homelessness #higher education #pandemic #inequality

YouTube videos prove too much for AI.

#youtube #content moderation #ai

LinkedIn is supposed to be used for professional networking and recruiting, but dot.LA reporter Ben Bergman learned that, to many users' dismay, some people are there trolling for dates.

#linkedin #metoo

Data voids on social networks are spreading misinformation and causing real world harm. Here are some ideas on how to fix the problem.

#social media #facebook #instagram #search engine #misinformation #data void

Fans of the pro-Trump conspiracy theory are clogging anti-trafficking hotlines, infiltrating Facebook groups and raising false fears about child exploitation.

#fuck qanon #qanon conspiracy #conspiracy theory #misinformation #social media

A researcher looking for gendered bias against robots found something else instead: We just don’t trust them at all.

#robotics #gender bias #racial bias #bias in tech #ayanna howard #science friday

Mozilla’s latest round of Creative Media Awards will provide $245,000 in funding to Black artists who are exploring the effects of AI on racial justice

Research collected during the pandemic backs up the national calls for racial and criminal justice. So why are we still relying on punitive software?

#wired #covid19 #predictive policing #ai #bias in tech #police #prison industrial complex #algorithmic bias #facial recognition

In allowing users to opt out of being tracked around the web, Apple might be doing what the advertising boycott against Facebook could not.

#privacy #facebook #iphone #apple

2020 has seen the emergence of a new wave of ethical AI – one focused on the tough questions of power, equity, and justice.

Carly Kind asserts “ethical AI” is finally becoming a matter of practice, not just theory, propelled forward by grass-roots, social justice activism.

#ai #ethicalai #machine learning #algorithmic bias #tech industry #philosophy of tech #social justice #activism #blacklivesmatter

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“Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognize others as persons—not by those who are oppressed, exploited, and unrecognized. It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only themselves. It is not the helpless, subject to terror, who initiate terror, but the violent, who with their power create the concrete situation which begets the “rejects of life.” It is not the tyrannized who initiate despotism, but the tyrants. It is not the despised who initiate hatred, but those who despise. It is not those whose humanity is denied them who negate humankind, but those who denied that humanity (thus negating their own as well). Force is used not by those who have become weak under the preponderance of the strong, but by the strong who have emasculated them.”

— Paulo Freire

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