How Algorithms Perpetuate Inequality

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Algorithms power so many online services we rely upon, delivering "personalized" content to us based on our personal information, actions and interactions online. But algorithms are built by people who may have biases, which in turn may distort our view of others, ourselves and the world. Join us we speak to one of the nation’s experts about racism, sexism, and the role of online algorithms in perpetuating them. ASL interpretation was provided for this event.

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