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Articles tagged algorithmic bias (4)

A user with greater health literacy is more likely to discover usable medical advice from a reputed health care provider, such as the Mayo Clinic.
“Journalists in every field need to have more skills to investigate those types of decision-making that are embedded in technology.”
The algorithm that ranks content can make some truly strange decisions. What set of signals is Google News looking for?
“I’ve long wanted to build a newsroom around this concept of pairing technical experts with journalists. So that is what this newsroom will be about.”