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Michigan’s “Fair and Reasonable” Reforms Allowed Car Insurers to Charge More in Black Neighborhoods
An investigation by The Markup and Outlier Media found lawmakers created loopholes big enough to drive through
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Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless
Benchmarks used to rank AI models are several years old, often sourced from amateur websites, and, experts worry, lending automated systems a dubious sense of authority
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Colectivo de inmigrantes indígenas se organiza ante la falta de servicios gubernamentales
El Concejo de Pueblos Originarios combate la desinformación sobre las vacunas, realiza traducciones para las y los compañeros migrantes en la corte, y trabaja con lingüistas para crear nuevas palabras indígenas.
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When Government Bureaucracy Fails Them, a Collective of Indigenous Migrants Figure It Out Themselves
The Concejo de Pueblos Originarios combats vaccine misinformation, translates for fellow migrants in court, and works with linguists to create new Indigenous words.
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How California’s ‘once in a century’ broadband investment plan could go wrong
A nearly $2 billion initiative to remedy the digital divide is designed to fail, advocates say
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A New, Dirty Vision for Higher Education
An interview with Julia Schleck, who argues that rather than serving the public good, universities should be a forum to define and debate the public good
These Wrongly Arrested Black Men Say a California Bill Would Let Police Misuse Face Recognition
Three men falsely arrested based on face recognition technology have joined the fight against a California bill that aims to place guardrails around police use of the technology. They say it will still allow abuses and misguided arrests.
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How a Defrocked Armenian Preacher Uses YouTube to Spread Misinformation to His Flock
Barthev Gulumian uses his daily videos to discuss the Bible, as well as QAnon-style conspiracy theories and why COVID vaccines are “poison”
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The Secret To Beating Political Disinformation Is Knowing When Not To Fact-Check
A conversation with Sasha Issenberg about his book on how to win elections in the new normal of omnipresent fake news
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