www.turing.ac.uk
Detecting East Asian prejudice on social media
8 may. 2020 - Evidence suggests that there has been an uptick in the amount of prejudice against East Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
 · black-struggle · covid-19 · harassment · hate-speech · racist-technology · social-media · united-kingdom

www.theguardian.com > Julia Carrie Wong and Sophie Zhang
How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account
12 apr. 2021 - The inside story of Sophie Zhang’s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected.
 · azerbaijan · democracy · disinformation · elections · engagement · facebook · harassment · honduras · internet-research-agency · mexico · philippines

rms-open-letter.github.io
An open letter to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership positions
23 mar. 2021 - Richard M. Stallman, frequently known as RMS, has been a dangerous force in the free software community for a long time. He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety. These sorts of beliefs have no place in the free software, digital rights, and tech communities. With his recent reinstatement to the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation, we call for the entire Board of the FSF to step down and for RMS to be removed from all leadership positions.
 · free-software · harassment

www.propublica.org > Ariana Tobin, Justin Elliott and Ken Armstrong
Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You
2 oct. 2020 - Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers. Now the pandemic is creating a boom in the industry.
 · airbnb · arise · at-and-t · black-struggle · comcast · covid-19 · disney · gig-economy · harassment · intuit · labour-rights · sexual-violence

www.lilithmag.nl > Clarice Gargard
Block Party: an app to help you kick internet trolls to the curb
3 nov. 2020 - Lilith’s oog viel onlangs op Tracy Chou, een jonge, Amerikaanse software engineer én diversiteitsstrijder die een app genaamd Block Party heeft gebouwd waarmee je jezelf kan verdedigen tegen online trollen, bijvoorbeeld op Twitter. Tijd om erachter te komen hoe Block Party precies werkt.
 · block-party · harassment · social-media