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Computational Propaganda Research Project One bogus posts featured an image of Eric Garner, who died after a policeman put him in a chokehold in 2014 A Senate inquiry has concluded that a Russian fake-news campaign targeted “no single group… more than African-Americans.” It says Russian operatives used social media to deter black people from voting […]
Helping your students see the possibilities of careers in STEM fields means providing them with diverse role models. Black History Month offers teachers more opportunities to feature the contributions of Black scientists, engineers and mathematicians in the context of their science instruction. We have made a list of some Black scientists, engineers, inventors and mathematicians who […]
Most iPhone users unlock their phones with a quick glance. Many of us have Ring video doorbells to see who’s outside when there’s a knock. We take for granted how Facebook knows every single person to tag in a posted photo. While this use of facial recognition technology is seemingly convenient—and cool, like something in […]
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Every few months, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) releases the results of benchmark tests it conducts on facial recognition algorithms submitted by companies, universities, and independent labs. A portion of these tests […]
Editor’s note: This paper was originally presented at the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Spring Meeting on April 8, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Introduction Governments and private companies have a long history of collecting data from civilians, often justifying the resulting loss of privacy in the name of national security, economic stability, or other societal benefits. […]
22.Nov While many parts of the world celebrate black heritage in February, Brazil commemorates Black Consciousness Day on 20 November in memory of Zumbi dos Palmares – a leader of the slave liberation movement from almost 200 years before the official abolition in 1888. Today, the racism that nevertheless continues to be an open wound […]
More than 100 years ago, American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what he understood to be social and cultural differences between different populations of people. He spoke out against the idea of “white” and “black” as discrete groups, claiming that these distinctions ignored the […]
One evening 10 years ago 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking through a Florida neighborhood with candy and iced tea when a vigilante pursued him and ultimately shot him dead. The killing shocked me back to the summer of 1955, when as a six-year-old boy I heard that a teenager named Emmett Till had been lynched […]
I was well into my thirties before I realised that The Sneetches, Dr Seuss’s fantastical story of bird-like creatures whose star-bellied variants looked down on the plain-bellied sort, was about racism. I’d known the book all my life – my mother read it to me when I was little. But it was only when started […]
Originally published on September 12, 2020. Ornithologist Corina Newsome spent the summer of 2020 in two very different worlds — studying threats to birds in the coastal marshes of Southern Georgia, while also co-launching a massive social media movement. In May of 2020, after a video surfaced of a white woman calling the police on a Black […]