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Inherited bias: The trouble with algorithms

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Konstantinos Kakavoulis and the Homo Digitalis team are taking on tech giants in defence of our digital rights and freedom of expression. In episode 2, season 2 of Defenders of Digital, this group of lawyers from Athens explains the dangers of today’s content moderation systems, and explores how discrimination can occur when algorithms inherit the biases of their programmers.

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The threats to our digital world are real and they are happening every day all around the globe. Unchecked, digital will spiral into a dark and dangerous place. But there are people fighting back to protect everything we all rely upon to survive - keeping the digital world, safe, open, free and functional... meet the Defenders of Digital.

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