Analysis of Google search results for 50+ trans celebrities shows transphobic suggestions, such as “before surgery” or “as a guy”; Google says it fixed an issue
When the world has a question, we Google it. Processing more than three billion searches a day … Tweets: @mpjinstitute , @histoftech , @histoftech , @jenniolsonsf , @histoftech , @histoftech , @histo...
Profile of Chris Gilliard, aka @hypervisible, who has helped coin concepts like “digital redlining” to highlight the impact of tech on marginalized groups
Chris Gilliard grew up with racist policing in Detroit. He sees a new form of oppression in the tech we use every day. Tweets: @willoremus , @ruchowdh , @ethicsoftech , @bostonjoan , @clancynewyork ,...
Facebook's AI model SEER was designed to exclude Instagram images from the EU in its dataset, likely to avoid GDPR violations
Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : Tweets: @histoftech , @samgregory , @kimcrayton1 , and @profcarroll Tweets: Mar Hicks / @histoftech : Facebook's earliest iteration, Facemash, also scraped (stole) pics Zuc...
A person involved in Twitter hack may have gained access to Twitter's internal dashboard using credentials pinned in one of the company's Slack channels
one of whom says he lives at home with his mother ... 19 and lived in the south of England with his mother.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Eric Geller / @ericgeller : Wow. Just seeing this. Twitter says...
Tech platforms, which had mostly resisted calls for strict moderation, are now taking a “harder line” when it comes to moderating content related to COVID-19
and just in time. On coronavirus, they're working proactively to push good information while trying to contain the bad stuff. Thank gd. https://www.nbcnews.com/... April Glaser / @aprilaser : We talke...
Tech platforms, which had mostly resisted calls for strict moderation, are now taking a “harder line” when it comes to moderating content related to COVID-19
and just in time. On coronavirus, they're working proactively to push good information while trying to contain the bad stuff. Thank gd. https://www.nbcnews.com/... Mar Hicks / @histoftech : “Choosing ...
Two Google employees who helped organize walkouts say they've faced demotions or dramatically changed roles, plan a town hall to share stories of retaliation
both at research institutions like @AINowInstitute, and at places like Google, which need calls for change and self-reflection from strong voices within. http://www.nytimes.com/... Kate Conger / @kate...
Kids googling themselves for the first time face shock, frustration, and sometimes excitement at content parents had been posting about them since their birth
Googling yourself has become a rite of passage. — For several months, Cara has been working up the courage to approach her mom about what she saw on Instagram. Tweets: @theatlantic , @histoftech , @...
A look at the human cost of Facebook's rise in the Philippines: truth matters less, propaganda is ubiquitous, lives are wrecked, and some have died as a result
In August 2016, a handful of crude images began circulating widely throughout Facebook's Filipino community … Tweets: @daveyalba , @dcurtis , @histoftech , @kevinroose , @cwarzel , @buzzfeednews , @si...
Leaked docs and sources describe Facebook's content moderation apparatus and the logistics of trying to moderate billions of posts a week in 100+ languages
tasked with enforcing values for the whole friggin' world—have a McDonald's level turnover rate https://motherboard.vice.com/ ... Mathew Ingram / @mathewi : As this Motherboard piece makes clear, tryi...