Don't Google It (With Safiya Noble)

Episode Transcript

UCLA Associate Professor, author of Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Noble joins the WBI show to discuss the mythologies of commercial search engines and digital redlining. How can we collectively reimagine an alternative public interest technology to off-loading societal knowledge onto commercial platforms like Google? What are the challenges of content moderation in the textual realm of search on Google as compared to their video based content on YouTube?

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel and Stanley Muñoz
Music: Drew Lewis

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