Open letter from content moderators re: pandemic

Full text of the letter from 200 Facebook content moderators.

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.

Area of work: Challenging unfair algorithms

YouTube is breaking the law by harvesting children’s data for targeted advertising – our work to stop them!

YouTube, and its parent company Google, know that millions of children watch YouTube. They’re making money from unlawfully collecting data about children and targeting them with ads that aren’t apporpriate for them.
A Levels Algorithm

We put a stop to the A Level grading algorithm!

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

Area of work: Challenging unfair algorithms

Home Office says it will abandon its racist visa algorithm – after we sued them

This is the first successful judicial review of a UK government algorithmic decision-making system.

Why I’m so keen to talk to Facebook content moderators

Cori explains why Foxglove is fighting for the rights of Big Tech’s real, but often invisible, workforce.
algorithmic justice

Update: papers filed for judicial review of the Home Office’s visa algorithm

Foxglove is supporting the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) to challenge the Home Office’s use of a secret algorithm that effectively gives “Speedy Boarding” for a visa to white people.

BREAKTHROUGH: UK government releases NHS Covid 19 data deals with big tech

Along with openDemocracy, we have forced disclosure of deals made between government and private companies giving them access tot NHS data.