Audit the Algorithims
some of the very people who are developing search algorithms and architecture are willing to promote sexist and racist attitudes openly at work and beyond, while we are supposed to believe that these same employees are developing “neutral” or “objective” decision-making tools.
Safiya Umoja Noble • Algorithms of Oppression
Meta is a company that encourages a culture of "see no evil, hear no evil," former company engineer Arturo Bejar said on Tuesday.
He was testifying in front of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing centered on how algorithms for Facebook and Instagram (both owned by parent company Meta) push content to teens that promotes bullying, drug abuse,
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“We need to open up and be transparent around how our algorithms work and how they’re used, and maybe even enable people to choose their own algorithms to rank the content or to create their own algorithms, to rank it. To be that open, I think, would be pretty incredible.”
Michael Barbaro • Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s Mistakes (Published 2020)
The biases of Google and Facebook, whether algorithmic, datainduced, commercial or political dictate what version of the worldwe get to see. Reality becomes what the models we are fed depictit to be [24]. And a reality defined by Google’s search rankingalgorithm, is one that does not and cannot capture the intricaciesand variety of human knowledge... See more
Brave • GOGGLES: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web Brave Search Team
While we often think of terms such as “big data” and “algorithms” as being benign, neutral, or objective, they are anything but. The people who make these decisions hold all types of values, many of which openly promote racism, sexism, and false notions of meritocracy, which is well documented in studies of Silicon Valley and other tech corridors.