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World Service,3 mins

How do you fight a nameless, faceless algorithm?

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Virginia Eubanks is a professor of political science at the University at Albany in upstate New York. She’s also the author of a book called Automating Inequality. It was while she was writing this book that the power of algorithms became shockingly evident. (Image: Professor Virginia Eubanks, Credit: Sadaf Rassoul Cameron)

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