Facebook says WSJ's series contained deliberate mischaracterizations and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook's leadership and employees
and burying the findings Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Facebook rebukes WSJ over investigation on the platform's ability to harm, ‘toxic’ impact Parmy Olson / Bloomberg : Facebook's Beloved Growth Team Ha...
Study finds that tech companies that made #BlackLivesMatter pledges after George Floyd's murder had 20% fewer Black employees on average than those that didn't
After the murder of George Floyd last year prompted widespread protests, dozens of companies released public pledges to promote racial justice. Tweets: @johnamaechi Tweets: John Amaechi Obe / @johnama...
Black LinkedIn is emerging as a professional analog to Black Twitter since the pandemic and George Floyd's killing, with disagreements about moderation arising
Conversations on race and racism are increasingly happening on LinkedIn. Tweets: Mukhtar M. Ibrahim / @mukhtaryare : LinkedIn's tone has long reflected corporate America: staid, monolithic, white. Now...
Critics contend that predictive policing algorithms need to be dismantled due to biased training data, even as advocates say that algorithms can be made fair
and things may be getting worse. In the wake of the protests after the killing of George Floyd, some police departments are doubling down on their use of predictive tools. https://www.technologyreview...
A look at Benchmark Analytics, which wants to help identify “bad apples” in US police departments using data and faces significant challenges, like data quality
Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg : Tweets: @joshuabrustein , @iwillleavenow , and @fleurej Tweets: Joshua Brustein / @joshuabrustein : Calls for police reform in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing ...
“Neutral point of view” is a core principle of Wikipedia but racial justice protests are sparking debates among contributors on what neutrality actually means
Contributors are rethinking what Wikipedia's commitment to neutrality actually means. Tweets: @brianlzw , @iethics , @rhyslindmark , @futuretensenow , and @wikimedia Tweets: Zewen Liang / @brianlzw : ...
120+ former staff accuse Change.org of “siphoning” funds from George Floyd petition with “chip in” tool used to promote petitions; tool now temporarily disabled
The site's ‘chip in’ feature looks like a donation, but it's used to promote the petition Tweets: @stephen_douglas and @thedealwithalex Tweets: Stephen Douglas / @stephen_douglas : It's not ExactChang...
Messaging app Signal adds face blurring tool on iOS and Android to help hide protesters' identities
Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
As Blackout Tuesday posts fill Instagram feeds, many say they are drowning out vital information shared under the BLM and BlackLivesMatter hashtags
We have mixed feelings about #BlackoutTuesday, too. Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac : Apple Music joins wider music industry Black Out Tuesday awareness campaign with app takeover The Verge : Spotify, Apple M...