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AlgorithmicBias 3 - 10 Oct 2017 - Main.MadihaZahrahChoksi
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The Real Bias Built In At Facebook - Zeynep Tufekci | | | I worked for the New York Public Library for about 1.5 years - after which I could not help but feel repulsed by the way the system handles, disseminates, and treats access to books and information. Within the Harlem Network of libraries where I worked, there was little to no attention given to working with patrons in navigating a basic research process. Questions we would receive on conducting "safe" research online as mandated by schools in the area were ignored, and time I spent running workshops and tutoring sessions with teens were eventually phased out because they were "time consuming" and required "too much prep". | |
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< | This anecdote speaks to a societal issue that we face: the assumption that thinking critically about information we interact with online is intuitive, that we will know the difference between a "fake" fact or story, and a real one. But it is 2017, and the proliferation of misinformation is a worldwide trend. We are already late in thinking about the impact of algorithms, of disseminating sources and pieces of information that may not entirely be true, and have to some degree, completely missed the facts. As Richard Stallman described, the success of misinformation is most effective when, as mentioned above in the words of Richard Stallman, people are enslaved by the opaque programs with which they interact and depend on. | >
> | This anecdote speaks to a societal issue that we face: the assumption that thinking critically about information we interact with online is intuitive, that we will know the difference between a "fake" fact or story, and a real one. But it is 2017, and the proliferation of misinformation is a worldwide trend. We are already late in thinking about the impact of algorithms, of disseminating sources and pieces of information that may not entirely be true, and have to some degree, completely missed the facts. As Richard Stallman described, the success of misinformation is most effective when, as mentioned above, people are enslaved by the opaque programs with which they interact and depend on. | | | A quote from the article linked above: |
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