Research

Investigative journalistic research from Switzerland and across Europe on algorithms and AI in our everyday lives.

12 August 2025

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The AI Revolution Comes With the Exploitation of Gig Workers 

Business process outsourcing (BPO) companies manage the human work behind AI development. However, they face accusations of worker exploitation, underpayment and wage theft. Big tech companies benefit from this work model.

Illustrations of six data workers, working at computers in isolation from each other. Painted background includes hazy image of cubicles; digital overlay of glass fractures.

July 31, 2025

Infrastructure or Intrusion? Europe’s Conflicted Data Center Expansion

A black-and-white image depicting the early computer, Bombe Machine, during World War II. In the foreground, the shadow of a woman in vintage clothing is cast on a man changing the machine's cable.

May 22, 2025

Scams and Shadow Workers: A Black Market is Selling European Accounts for AI Training

Podcast False Positives Mockup with Mobile

February 6, 2025

«False Positives»: A Podcast on Financial Discrimination & De-banking

September 18, 2024

For trans people, online transitioning can be a nightmare

June 7, 2024

Some image generators produce more problematic stereotypes than others, but all fail at diversity

April 6, 2023

AI surveillance rumors: gay adult content creators face sanctions

March 10, 2023

Reels of Fortune: Instagram-shaped memories for a bigger reach

February 23, 2023

A dollar for your face: Meet the people behind Machine Learning models

February 1, 2023

What to expect from Europe’s first AI oversight agency

December 18, 2022

Wolt: Couriers’ feelings don’t always match the transparency report

August 29, 2022

Digital Bouncers: AI in Recruiting

September 13, 2021

AlgorithmWatch forced to shut down Instagram monitoring project after threats from Facebook

March 12, 2021

Twitter apparently fixed their picture cropping

December 3, 2020

Health algorithms discriminate against Black patients, also in Switzerland

July 22, 2020

Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it

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