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YouTube’s Algorithms Aren’t Racist, Judge Says
A US federal judge in California has dismissed a racial discrimination lawsuit brought against YouTube and its parent company Google by non-white YouTube content creators who alleged the platform’s recommendation algorithms unfairly throttled and even removed their content. The judge, according to Reuters, said the plaintiffs in the case “do not come close” to proving…
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Minneapolis Cops Used Fake Accounts to Spy on Innocent Black People
Officers of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) engaged in surveillance of local Black leaders and organisations “without a public safety objective,” the Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) found. The racist misuse of state authority was just one among a litany of other abuses that included “killing community members of colour and Indigenous community members”…
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Facebook Unblocks Kyle Rittenhouse, Says He Can Open Accounts Now
Facebook has rescinded its block on searches for Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenaged gunman who killed two and wounded another with an AR-15-style rifle during Black Lives Matter protests and civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020. The decision comes after Rittenhouse was found not guilty of two counts of murder and one charge of…
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Most Police Killings in the U.S. Aren’t Officially Counted, Study Finds
Police officers are killing more Americans every year than official statistics indicate, new research out Thursday concludes. The study compared government data to other records maintained by outside organisations and found a wide gap, suggesting that more than half of police killings have been unreported by the federal government in the last 40 years.