Search Engine Breakdown: Are Algorithms Racist and Sexist?
Why does a widely-used internet search engine deliver results that can be blatantly racist and sexist? "Beyond the Search" tells the story of two leading information researchers who made shocking discoveries about hidden biases in the search technology we rely on every day. It begins when Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble set out to find activities to entertain her young nieces and entered the term “Black girls’’ into her search bar: pages of pornography appeared as the top results.
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