Google’s Real Biases

Google’s Real Biases

On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser discuss California’s landmark decision to eliminate cash bail for defendants in criminal cases--and the controversial algorithmic “risk assessment” system that will partially replace it. They also hash out a fresh debate over who gets to fact-check the news that appears in your Facebook feed following an outcry in media circles on Tuesday, after Facebook flagged a story in the liberal outlet ThinkProgress as “false”--all because the conservative Weekly Standard had taken issue with its headline.

The hosts are then joined by Professor Safiya Umoja Noble, author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. Lately, media coverage - and congressional hearings - have focused on potential anti-conservative bias among the big tech companies, but professor’s Noble’s work suggests we may actually have a much different problem.

17:50 - Interview with Safiya Umoja Noble36:36 - Don’t Close My Tabs

Don’t Close My Tabs:

Anatomy of an AI System by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler

The New Yorker: Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before it Breaks Democracy?

Podcast production by Max Jacobs

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