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Fact-Checking in the Age of Misinformation
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Fact-Checking in the Age of Misinformation

As social media becomes the basis for consuming news, misinformation is spreading faster and getting harder to verify.

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2400 1600 Anmol Irfan
Blackface in the Digital Age
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Blackface in the Digital Age

How social spaces and tech profit off the exploitative use of Blackness and racial stereotypes in a repackaged and digitized version of blackface.

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2400 1350 Nicole Cardoza
How Digital Surveillance Threatens Reproductive Freedom
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How Digital Surveillance Threatens Reproductive Freedom

The fight against Roe v. Wade underscores how digital surveillance can be used to incriminate people seeking abortion care.

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2400 1600 Nicole Cardoza
Severing the Lines of Communication
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Severing the Lines of Communication

Privatizing prison technology and communication add a costly financial burden on incarcerated people and their families.

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1920 1280 Dominique Stewart
Hold Facebook accountable.

Hold Facebook accountable.

When will Facebook hold itself accountable for the harm it causes, and how can we rally our voices?

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4695 3265 Nicole Cardoza
Support historically Black colleges and universities.

Support historically Black colleges and universities.

HBCUs are key to increasing representation of Black people in STEM. So why are they historically underfunded?

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1137 761 Tiffany Onyejiaka
Understand the TikTok strike.

Understand the TikTok strike.

Black social media creators are on strike from creating new choreography. Here’s why.

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800 533 Nicole Cardoza
Uncover racial bias in photography.

Uncover racial bias in photography.

From its beginnings to modern-day, cameras and photo technology have favored lighter-skinned subjects.

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800 409 Nia Norris

Rally for representation in AI.

Dr. Timnit Gebru is a well-respected leader in the field of ethical A.I., an industry that’s committed to making artificial intelligence more inclusive and representative of our diverse population. She co-authored a groundbreaking paper that showed facial recognition to be less accurate at identifying women and people of color. She co-founded the Black in AI affinity group. And she was the co-leader of Google’s Ethical A.I. team – that is, until they abruptly forced her out of the company (Dr. Timnit Gebru’s Twitter).

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150 150 Nicole Cardoza
The Coded Bias in Facial Recognition Technology
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The Coded Bias in Facial Recognition Technology

Facial recognition software is increasingly becoming integrated into society and policing despite coded racial bias.

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1920 1280 Nicole Cardoza
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