Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

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A new common sense has emerged regarding the perils of predictive algorithms. As the groundbreaking work of scholars like Safiya Noble, Cathy O’Neil, Virginia Eubanks, and Ruha Benjamin has shown, big ...

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