As Google removes nonconsensual deepfake porn video URLs after complaints, experts urge Google to remove the biggest deepfake sites from search results entirely
Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web.
Research renews concerns about gender bias in image recognition services offered by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon
A new paper renews concerns about bias in image recognition services offered by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. — MEN OFTEN JUDGE women by their appearance. Turns out, computers ...
Sources: Facebook ceased research into racial bias in Instagram's moderation tools after finding problematic results; Facebook says the methodology was flawed
In mid-2019, researchers at Facebook began studying a new set of rules proposed for the automated system that Instagram uses …
WhatsApp's private group structure encourages spread of misinfo and conspiracy theories as it enables higher levels of trust and solidarity among group members
A virtual May Week Tweets: Soraya Chemaly / @schemaly : 100% this. Shift to private social is deliberate, strategic, profitable. WhatsApp's already implicated in the rapid spreadin...
Snap apologizes and disables its Juneteenth filter that allowed users to “smile and break the chains”, saying it didn't go through its usual review process
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Many US government and banking systems still use a 60-year-old COBOL, which makes it hard to find programmers to fix the systems when they break under pressure
Retired engineers are coming to the rescue — ver the weekend, New Jersey governor, Phil Murphy, made an unusual public plea during …
How database schemas from the 1950s through the 1990s, which encoded gender as a binary value, are affecting non-binary persons today
Meredith Broussard / Slate : Tweets: @libshipwreck , @futuretensenow , @bmatb , @schemaly , @roavingxss , and @espiers Tweets: Librarianshipwreck / @libshipwreck : “Over and over ...
Girls Who Code study of 1,000 young women highlights the challenges faced when seeking internships, often an unpleasant experience in a male-dominated workplace
Nitasha Tiku / Wired : Tweets: @angichau , @rickybloomfield , @_dianakris , @kylebrussell , @ayahbdeir , @taylor_atx , @elenielstorm , @resourcefulsqrl , @girlswhocode , @feminist...