Challenging technology to serve the public good.
Show Your WorkAutomated Censorship
We found that Instagram heavily demoted nongraphic images of war, deleted captions and hid comments without notification, suppressed hashtags, and limited users’ ability to appeal moderation decisions
Show Your WorkOrgan Failure
We found Native Americans were listed for a transplant significantly less often than other racial groups compared with their number of deaths from liver disease
Show Your WorkNeighborhood Watch
In Los Angeles, residents in Whiter and wealthier areas post more often on Neighbors, but do not report a higher crime rate
Show Your WorkPrediction: Bias
We found that Geolitica’s crime prediction algorithm had a success rate of less than 1% in Plainfield, New Jersey
Show Your WorkOrgan Failure
We found that new requirements led to plummeting transplants in some poorer states while New York and California saw big gains
Show Your WorkInvestigation
Year after year, White people have been rated highly “vulnerable” more often than Black people
Show Your WorkStill Loading
AT&T, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyLink disproportionately offered the worst deals to lower-income areas and communities of color across the country—while charging the same for faster speeds in higher-income and Whiter areas
Show Your WorkPixel Hunt
The first large-scale, crowdsourced study that monitors how Meta tracks people across the internet
Show Your WorkPrediction: Bias
A trove of unsecured data allowed the first-ever independent analysis of actual crime predictions across the U.S. by the self-described software leader, PredPol
Show Your WorkCitizen Browser
We found that Facebook's popularity metric obscures how well ultra-conservative content does on the platform
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