"In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data ...

Noble, the director of UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, googled “Black girls,” and pornography turned up first in her search. UCLA professor-scholar-author Safiya Noble is speaking out ...

Nov 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly a decade has passed since Safiya Noble googled "Black girls" and found the search results were mostly pornographic - a discovery that drove her to explore ...

When Frances Haugen blew the whistle on Facebook, she thrust algorithm—a clunky Silicon Valley buzzword—into mainstream conversation. Facebook’s algorithm, the mathematical map for how the platform ...

Imagine you’ve forgotten once again the difference between a gorilla and a chimpanzee, so you do a quick Google image search of “gorilla.” But instead of finding images of adorable animals, photos of ...

On this week’s episode, we dive into the hidden biases of the digital age with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble, author of the groundbreaking book, Algorithms of Oppression. Dr. Noble unpacks how search engines ...

Scholar Safiya Noble says algorithms used in a whole suite of technologies tend to single out minorities for unfair treatment Nov 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly a decade has passed since ...