[ad_1] If anything, the researchers found, YouTube has the opposite problem — it’s overly safe. The recommendations tend to clearly favor mainstream channels, including outlets labeled as partisan like Fox News and John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight. Independents and smaller outlets like The Young Turks tend to suffer regardless of their political leanings. Ledwich also […]
Category: racism
Federal study shows face recognition accuracy varies by gender and race
[ad_1] In one-to-one matches, there were dramatic increases in false positives for African American, Asian and native American faces compared to their Caucasian counterparts, with mistakes frequently happening “10 to 100 times” more often. African American women were also more likely to be the victims of false positives in one-to-many matches, and women as a […]
Healthcare risk algorithm had ‘significant racial bias’
[ad_1] The differences were sometimes acute. Scientists reckoned that eliminating the algorithmic bias would increase the percentage of black patients receiving extra help from 17.7 percent to 46.5 percent. When millions of customers were processed through the algorithm, this meant that legions of black people weren’t receiving enough support. In this case, the bias appear […]
Echo Fox co-owner sues team partners over fraud claims
[ad_1] Fox also asserted that Raizada has retaliated against him for bringing up Raizada’s use of racist language against ex-CEO Jace Hall. Riot Games cut Echo Fox from its League of Legends Championship Series after it argued that the team hadn’t addressed Raizada’s behavior, with Echo Fox eventually selling to Kroenke for just over $30 […]
Echo Fox loses its pro ‘League of Legends’ franchise spot
[ad_1] Riot Games partnered with Echo Fox and 10 other esports organizations in 2017, granting them permanent franchise status, in exchange for a $10 million fee. A lot of big players, including professional sports teams like the New York Yankees and Cleveland Cavaliers, jumped at the chance to enter. Since then, the league has been […]
YouTube declines to pull videos containing homophobic, racist attacks
[ad_1] The service said it had conducted a review of the videos and said there was language that was “clearly hurtful,” but that there hadn’t been policy violations. In a response to Gizmodo, a Google spokesperson also claimed that Crowder was only “debating” Maza’s opinions, and was off the hook as he hadn’t directly “instructed” […]
Twitter is researching whether white supremacists should stay on its site
[ad_1] The company said there had been evidence of this open approach working elsewhere, and contended that transparency was important. “Hiding things doesn’t automatically make them disappear,” Gadde said. However, the company didn’t say that it was leaning one way or the other. Proponents of both sides have been vocal. Free speech advocates have long […]
PewDiePie asks for end to ‘subscribe’ meme after synagogue shooting
[ad_1] He said he held off saying more in March since he “didn’t want to give the terrorist more attention” or to “make it about me.” Even so, he didn’t want “hateful acts” to overwhelm the “amazing things” done in his name. The internet celebrity also acknowledged that two diss songs attacking T-Series, his rival […]
Racism accusations rock esports team Echo Fox
[ad_1] Here’s how Echo Fox explains the situation (emphasis original): There have been incidents in recent weeks in which a limited partner of the Echo Fox organization, who is not an employee, officer or director of Echo Fox, used a racial epithet towards individuals both verbally and via email. One such incident was detailed in […]
Christchurch shooting videos are still on Facebook over a month later
[ad_1] One variation had been around since the time of the attack. All of the videos Feinberg found were sitting on Arabic-language pages. Facebook has removed one of the videos as of this writing, and reiterated its plans to improve its filtering technology. It’s using audio recognition to spot clips that might otherwise evade filters, […]