Podcast: At Liberty (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Google This: Algorithmic OppressionPub date: 2021-02-18Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:Is Google an ad company, not an information company, that’s replicating the discrimination of the world it operates in? How can this discrimination be addressed and who is responsible for it?Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationImagine you’ve forgotten once again the difference between a gorilla and a chimpanzee, so you do a quick Google image search of “gorilla.” But instead of finding images of adorable banana-obsessed animals, photos of a Black couple pop up.

Is this just a glitch in the algorithm? Or, is Google an ad company, not an information company, that’s replicating the discrimination of the world it operates in? How can this discrimination be addressed and who is accountable for it?

Our guest today, UCLA professor and best-selling author of “Algorithms of Oppression,” Dr. Safiya Noble answers these questions.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ACLU, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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