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    AlgorithmWatch
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    Jan 16, 2024
    👋 Bye bye X/Twitter! We have decided to pause our activities here. Our decision follows the continuous decline of the platform, which no longer serves as a public space where we as a civil society organization can contribute to a constructive discourse.
    AlgorithmWatch suspends activities on X, formally known as Twitter - AlgorithmWatch
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    AlgorithmWatch
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    Aug 13, 2021
    1/9 ⚠️ AlgorithmWatch was forced to shut down its #Instagram monitoring project after threats from #Facebook! 👉🏻 Read our story: algorithmwatch.org/en/instagram-r… ✍🏻 And sign our open letter to European lawmakers to protect future research on online platforms: algorithmwatch.org/en/defend-publ… 🧵
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    AlgorithmWatch
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    Jul 11, 2023
    Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the biggest Panic-creator of them all? Inspired by @DrTechlash, check out our Taxonomy of AI Panic Facilitators and those fighting against the fearmongering. Who have we forgotten to add? Let us know! ⬇️
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    AlgorithmWatch
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    Jun 15, 2020
    We spent the last 6 months investigating Instagram's algorithm, talking to professional content creators, reading through patents and analyzing the newsfeed of 26 donors who volunteered their data. Read our findings ⤵️
    Undress or fail: Instagram’s algorithm strong-arms users into showing skin - AlgorithmWatch
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    AlgorithmWatch
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    May 11, 2023
    BREAKING NEWS – and it's good news! 🎉 The @Europarl_EN leading committees have just voted on the #AIAct and have sent a strong signal against surveillance. Surveillance systems that are incompatible with human rights have no place in the EU. ✊
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    AlgorithmWatch
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    Oct 28, 2020
    ‼️ OUT NOW: The #AutomatingSociety Report 2020 by @algorithmwatch & @algoethik, covering the current use of & policy debates around automated decision-making #ADM in 16 European countries & at #EU level. Read the PDF & explore the report on our website ⤵️
    Automating Society Report 2020
    From automatingsociety.algorithmwatch.org
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    AlgorithmWatch
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    Sep 17, 2020
    A new experiment by AlgorithmWatch shows that Google Translate systematically changes the gender of translations when they do not fit with stereotypes. Google says it's because translations between non-English languages pivot over English. algorithmwatch.org/en/story/googl…
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    AlgorithmWatch
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    Sep 1, 2020
    The #COVID19 pandemic has spurred the deployment of a plethora of automated decision-making (ADM) systems all over Europe. The NEW REPORT by @algorithmwatch and @algoethik gathers detailed examples of #ADM-based responses from 16 European countries. 1/3 algorithmwatch.org/en/project/aut…
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    AlgorithmWatch
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    Oct 19, 2020
    #Facebook, and possibly #Google, "optimize" ad delivery in discriminatory ways, even when advertisers do not target. This could be in breach of the law. Read the story by @nicolaskb – available in English and German ⤵️ algorithmwatch.org/en/story/autom…
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    AlgorithmWatch
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    Apr 29, 2020
    We're very excited to release the new version of our '#AIEthics Guidelines Global Inventory'! We designed a new interface, which includes a faceted search feature, to browse through the 160 (and counting!) #EthicsGuidelines. (1/3)
    AI Ethics Guidelines Global Inventory by AlgorithmWatch
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    AlgorithmWatch
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    Jun 20, 2023
    Breaking news we are not surprised by: @OpenAI and Sam Altman are investing heavily into lobbying the most comprehensive AI legislation in the world, the EU's #AIAct — to influence the Act in their company's interest, @TIME reports. ⬇️
    Exclusive: OpenAI Lobbied E.U. to Water Down AI Regulation
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    AlgorithmWatch
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    Oct 7, 2019
    Austria's employment agency is rolling out a sorting algorithm that gives lower points to women and the disabled, in the name of efficiency. A textbook example of automated – and possibly illegal – discrimination.
    Austria’s employment agency rolls out discriminatory algorithm, sees no problem - AlgorithmWatch
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    AlgorithmWatch
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    Oct 30, 2020
    A coalition of 46 civil society orgs & academics joins @algorithmwatch & @epc_eu in calling for binding transparency rules for online platforms. Today we’re urging the @EU_Commission to put meaningful transparency at the heart of the #DSA. Full statement⤵️
    Putting Meaningful Transparency at the Heart of the Digital Services Act - AlgorithmWatch
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    AlgorithmWatch
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    Apr 17, 2023
    Italy has a problem with teachers. An #algorithm was supposed to save time by allocating teachers on short-term contracts to schools automatically. Failures in the code and design severely disrupted teachers’ lives, reports our fellow @PierluigiBizz. ⤵️
    The algorithm that blew up Italy’s school system  - AlgorithmWatch
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