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Fisseha and Abrham are taking Facebook to court in Kenya – in their own words

Hear them explain why they are taking this case.

Death by design: a major new case against Facebook

We are supporting the launch of a case demanding huge changes to Facebook’s algorithm, putting the safety of 500m people over Zuckerberg’s profits.

No government algorithm should decide who eats and who goes hungry – we step up challenge to the DWP’s secret benefit probes algorithm

Disabled people in Manchester threaten legal action over an algorithm that forces them into call centre “doom loops” to access vital cash.

NEW CASE: secret algorithm targets disabled people unfairly for benefit probes – cutting off life-saving cash and trapping them in call centre hell

We are supporting the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People to bring a legal challenge against disabled people being forced into gruelling and invasive benefit fraud investigations on the say-so of a secret algorithm.

We’ve made some good progress on challenging unfair government algorithms – but there’s a massive amount more to do

We’ve taken down two unjust and discriminatory algorithms so far. We’re just getting started.

We put a stop to the A Level grading algorithm!

The government has peformed a screeching U-turn on Ofqual’s unfair system.

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