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Inflection Point 103: Dr. Safiya Noble on the racism and misogyny embedded in tech

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Author Dr. Safiya Noble

What if our reliance on search engines is perpetuating oppressive ideas and hateful ideologies--even swaying elections?Dr. Safiya Noble was studying Library Science when an academic colleague suggested she google ”black girls.” The top search results were images that perpetuated negative stereotypes, misogyny and exploitation. That discovery was the beginning of an investigation that eventually became Safiya’s book, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism”.

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