Algorithms shape our beliefs
Notes and ideas for my dissertation on privacy, filter bubbles and digital democracy
Algorithms shape our beliefs
To comply with European transparency laws, Facebook came out with a replacement tool called the Meta Content Library, that it claims is better than CrowdTangle. That claim also turns out not to be true. Earlier this year, my newsroom Proof News worked with the Tau Center and the Algorithmic Transparency Institute to compare Meta's new tool with... See more
Rebecca Rand • Independent Researchers and Journalists Mourn the Loss of CrowdTangle | TechPolicy.Press
Journalists and researchers used CrowdTangle to reveal just how far propaganda and lies were spreading across Facebook
Justin Hendrix • Independent Researchers and Journalists Mourn the Loss of CrowdTangle | TechPolicy.Press
the craziest thing about this new algorithmic life we were all leading was that none of us had any idea what anyone else was seeing
Justin Hendrix • Independent Researchers and Journalists Mourn the Loss of CrowdTangle | TechPolicy.Press
The zeitgeist moved online and became personalized. My newsstand became the items in my feed and it looked entirely different from your newsstand, which was items in your feed. And that was entirely different from my mom's feed and your brother's feed and your uncle's feed. And in the beginning we felt like we had some control over these feeds by... See more
Independent Researchers and Journalists Mourn the Loss of CrowdTangle | TechPolicy.Press
Without independent public interest research and rigorous controls from regulators, it is impossible to know whether Instagram’s algorithms favors specific political opinions over others.
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Freedom of expression, association, and assembly: A functioning democracy requires open social and political discourse and the minimisation of undue influence or manipulation by any particular person or institution. AI places these values at risk where it is used to collect and process information about online and offline activity through logging... See more
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Privacy: AI can access enormous amounts of data about individuals and process it with incredible speed. AI can make predictions about a person’s behaviour, state of mind, and identity by sensing information that is not necessarily considered personal or private, such as facial expressions, heart rate, physical location, and other seemingly mundane... See more
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View of ‘Ai Theory of Justice’: Using Rawlsian Approaches to Legislate Better on Machine Learning in Government
journals.sas.ac.ukGilboa (2019), ‘AI provides us with the unprecedented opportunity to transform our society into one that is more just.’
AI systems today are often opaque and poorly understood, if they can be unpacked to show how the output was reached, algorithms can increase auditability. If people exercise judgement with access to auditable information provided by an algorithm, this could increase transparency, accountability and correct for human bias.