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Guide to Investigating Social Media Algorithms
Featuring tips, techniques, and best practices for covering the algorithms — and their corresponding impacts — used by tech giants’ social media platforms.
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GIJC23 – Holding Algorithms Accountable Through Collaboration
Governments and corporations worldwide are quietly deploying AI technologies that can discriminate and harm the most vulnerable members of society. Yet the impact of predictive and surveillance technologies on communities around the world often goes unreported and remains invisible. How can we bridge the gap? And what is the best way to investigate AI? In […]
Data Journalism Data Journalism Top 10
Data Journalism Top 10: Algorithm Bias, Mapping Femicide, India’s Deadly Cold, Bisexual Superman
GIJN’s weekly round-up of the best in data journalism looks into algorithmic bias in welfare investigations in Rotterdam, mapping the rise of femicides in Europe, and the deadly impact of cold temperatures in India.
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Q & A: Investigating TikTok Content Across the Russia-Ukraine Border
To investigate what the Russian invasion looked like to TikTok users in Russia and Ukraine, and how the content available differed from one side of the border to the other, a team of journalists from the Norwegian broadcasting company NRK set out to investigate the social networking site’s algorithms and how a user’s location provides differing digital narratives about the war.