Tag: race

• The Wikipedia War That Shows How Ugly This Election Will Be

  August 15, 2020

  An editing battle over Kamala Harris’s race is a sign of what’s to come. At 4:14 p.m. Delaware time Tuesday, Joe Biden’s campaign sent out a mass text message announcing… more ›

• Google’s Advertising Platform Is Blocking Articles About Racism

  August 15, 2020

  On Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year, the Atlantic decided to recirculate King’s famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” which the magazine had run in its August 1963 issue and… more ›

• Black lives will not matter until the economy does

  August 6, 2020

  In the wake of George Floyd’s killing by police officers in the United States and the global movement for Black lives, there has been a resounding call to re-examine the… more ›

• Deepfakes are the most worrying AI crime, researchers warn

  August 6, 2020

  Deepfakes are the most concerning use of AI for crime and terrorism, according to a new report from University College London. The research team first identified 20 different ways AI… more ›

• A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism

  August 29, 2019

  In more than twenty years of running diversity-training and cultural-competency workshops for American companies, the academic and educator Robin DiAngelo has noticed that white people are sensationally, histrionically bad at… more ›

• (via Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect…

  August 9, 2017

  (via Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children – ProPublica) more ›