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- Algorithms Are People
The secret sauce of search engines gives tech companies an abundance of plausible deniability.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Amazon, Google, and other tech platforms deny interfering with their respective search algorithms, to boost profits or sidestep regulations. Because of the murky mechanics of how search works, proving the allegations is nearly impossible.
- Censorship By Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
- Cowardly New World: Alternative Media Under Attack by Algorithms
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
An insidious assault is underway against alternative media on the internet. Leftist and progressive websites have been suffering significant declines in traffic. Some have had online income sources cut. Many others have been publicly defamed.
The only voices speaking the truth, says Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, are those on the fringes and we must amplify them however we can. Some suggestions:
* Read/view alternative media stories and share them in whatever venues you can.
* Stop consuming mainstream media and stop posting links to it.
* Actively support alternative media by donating money, time or other resources.
* Stop using Google as your search engine; I recommend DuckDuckGo. You will be surprised at how much you've been missing.
* Become the media: take your own photos or video and write up stories yourself for whatever outlet will take your work, even if that's only your own blog.
- Dear Al Gorithm
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
A look at search engine optimization (SEO) spam and the algorithms behind them.
- Even the Machines Are Racist. Facial Recognition Systems Threaten Black Lives.
The use of surveillance technology for "security" comes at the expense of civil liberties for Black and Brown people.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Politicians and companies pushing facial recognition technology say that, like the near-certainty of DNA and the exactness of fingerprint matches, the software is a precise, unbiased alternative to human bigotry in policing. Yet in reality, facial recognition technology is prone to false positives that target Black and Brown people, and then tracks them when they're on parole.
- Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity
Big Brother is watching...
Resource Type: Unclassified
Published: 2016
FindFace, new app developed by 26-year-old Artem Kukarenko and 29-year-old Alexander Kabakov,compares photos to profile pictures on social network Vkontakte and works out identities with 70% reliability.
- Facebook announces latest step in censorship campaign, prioritizing "local news"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media giant will prioritize news from 'local sources' in the News Feed displayed to users. This is the third move this year in a roll-out of updates by Facebook aimed at censoring online information.
- Facebook will soon filter out RT news, so this is how you fix it… probably
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In light of recent changes to Facebook's news feed, this RT article demonstrates what is needed to secure access to RT content.
- Google will 'de-rank' RT articles to make them harder to find - Eric Schmidt
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The Executive Chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet states that the company will engineer specific algorithms for news services RT and Sputnik to make their content less prominent on the search engine's news delivery services.
- Google's Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search results
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Recent remarks by the Executive Chairman of Google's parent company confirm charges that the company has been deliberately altering its search algorithms and taking other measures to prevent the public from accessing information that is critical of the US government.
- Google's new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
New data suggests that the implementation of changes in Google's search evaluation protocols resulted in a massive loss of readership of socialist, anti-war and progressive web sites.
- A health care algorithm affecting millions is biased against black patients
A startling example of algorithmic bias
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
A health care algorithm makes black patients substantially less likely than their white counterparts to receive important medical treatment. The major flaw, which affects millions of patients, was revealed in research published in the journal Science.
- If you work for Uber or DoorDash, your boss isn't a person but an algorithm
App-driven jobs in the gig economy can mean constant surveillance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Gig-economy apps claim that their workers are contractors or even another kind of customer but human-devised algorithms strictly control their work conditions.
- Is it already too late to say goodbye?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
My blog posts once attracted tens of thousands of shares. Then, as the algorithms tightened, it became thousands. Now, as they throttle me further, shares can often be counted in the hundreds. "Going viral" is a distant memory.
- Screened out by a computer?
What job interviews are like without human beings
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2021
Experts predict "asynchronous" one-way interviews will outlast the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 'Shadow banning' written into Twitter's new terms of service, may 'limit visibility' of some users
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
With the addition of those four words, the company is telling users it reserves the right shadow ban or "throttle" certain accounts. On what basis will it make those decisions – or whether they will be made solely by an automated algorithm – remains unclear.
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