Guracha Belachew Bersha, a now-freed Ethiopian man, details scamming hundreds while he was enslaved for 16 months in a pig butchering scam center in Myanmar
A multibillion-dollar cyberfraud industry operating out of Southeast Asia relies on forced labor and torture X: @felizysolo , @mikesmithwriter , @silvermanjacob , @jchengwsj , @jchengwsj , and @jcheng...
An interview with AI researcher Timnit Gebru on her controversial sacking by Google in 2020, biases in AI and Big Tech, racism in Silicon Valley, and more
The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI.
The son of a murdered Ethiopian professor files a lawsuit against Meta in Kenya, alleging Meta's algorithms promote hateful and violent content for engagement
Lawsuit alleges the social media giant is fueling violence and hate across Eastern and Southern Africa.
Researchers and journalists in Ethiopia say Meta has done little to stop hate speech amid Ethiopia's civil war, claiming moderation often falls to volunteers
which Facebook has designated its highest risk level and repeatedly made assurances it is dedicating resources to monitoring — researchers and journalists say that hate is still spreading unabated and...
Activists say ethnic violence in Ethiopia in recent months has been supercharged by hate speech on Facebook, which says it has increased monitoring of content
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The tragedy of Ethiopia's internet: an instrument of surveillance, and only 3.7% have access
Justin Lynch / Motherboard : Tweets: @lpolgreen , @smith_jeffreyt , @sallyhayd , @thebanderson , @ilana_u and @pschwartzstein Tweets: Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen : Just 3.7% of Ethiopians have intern...