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Without Google training programs, marginalized groups in the U.S. like Black girls wouldn’t be able to code.

Fears of AI come out of anxieties that technology would replace the need for human labor during the Industrial Revolution.

The U.S. used rigorous, scientific methods like racial “stock” to determine who should not be permitted to enter U.S. ports of entry as immigrants during the end of the 1800s and into the 1900s.

One reason that people are motivated to believe in misinformation is to protect their wider group’s identity.

Social media is most effectively used in a social movement when the movement is human-centered.

Henry Jenkins, an influential author on Civic Media, also writes about Fandom Studies because he sees Fandoms as a distraction from civic engagement.

Algorithms are biased because they are trained with biased data and because people who create data are biased.

When content moderation is systematic, it can transform into censorship.

Most people who oppose content moderation live outside the U.S., and are strong supporters of free speech absolutism.

When a media company purchases businesses across different types of media companies, such as a movie theatre and a Hollywood-themed restaurant and a Disney theme park, this is called a horizontal merger.