Confronting Algorithms of Bigotry - Julia Angwin | The Open Mind

Award-winning investigative reporter Julia Angwin talks about her new journalism venture exposing technologies that injure society.
(Taped: 05/03/2018)

Premiered in May 1956, Open Mind was created and hosted by Richard D. Heffner, American historian, broadcaster, and University Professor of Communications and Public Policy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Fifty years after its first broadcast, Open Mind continues with a new host, Mr. Heffner's grandson, Alexander Heffner. Open Mind as a weekly public affairs program was designed to elicit guests' most meaningful insights into the challenges Americans face in a variety of contemporary areas of national concern.

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This is a pretty terrifying video about social networking and the data they sell on people.

Important facts to understand are that for example Facebook had categories for advertising that allowed advertisers to select or deselect people who were Nazis, or people who had an African-American affinity, or users who were over a certain age.

The ability to make these choices means that corporate America or political groups can acts secretly with certain groups without anyone else knowing in a mass automated manner.

They talk about trying to fix this in Facebook by not allowing these certain pre-set menu choices, but this is not going to go away and the data is already out there in the hands of a lot of groups. We can never know, this is happening behind the backs of we who are responsible for being good citizens.

These abilities leave Orwell far behind in the dust.