“You wouldn’t like this job,” she says she was told. Facebook is only 3.9 percent Black and is facing an EEOC investigation
Sam Biddle
With the ink still drying on their landmark $52 million settlement with Facebook over trauma they suffered working for the company, many outsourced content moderators are now being told that they must view some of the most horrific and disturbing content on the internet
Ready to Snitch on People Who Don’t Distance
It’s impossible to determine exactly what information will be collected about you and your life if you decide to use the product
“What makes us essential is that if we were not to do this it would cause an inconvenience for Facebook.”
— While Staff Stay Home
The ACLU Says It’s Unconstitutional
Rather than clamoring for a dead sprint toward some sort of national AI supremacy, defined however and by whomever, our time might be better spent worrying in earnest about what lies at the finish line
Elizabeth Warren’s new plan — well, for now it’s just a Medium post — to break up some of the world’s biggest tech firms provides the rarest sign that someone seeking power wants to use that power to weaken Silicon Valley
What’s worse than bad science passing judgment on anyone within camera range is that the algorithms making these decisions are kept private by the firms that develop them,