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Statement on Meta’s Announcement to Gut Moderation and Fact-checking
Mark Zuckerberg says that he will roll back “censorship” on Meta platforms, but the changes will lead to the opposite. They may have severe consequences for users in the EU as well. What options do the European Commission and the Member States have to counter these developments?
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Press release: Joint Statement
Upcoming Commission Guidelines on the AI Act Implementation: Human Rights and Justice Must Be at Their Heart
The Artificial Intelligence Act establishes rules for the development and use of AI concerning the EU. Now that the law is being implemented, civil society calls on the EU Commission to put human rights and justice at the forefront when interpreting the law.
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False Positives: A Podcast on Financial Discrimination & De-banking
Agence France-Presse released a podcast that was based on a six-month investigation conducted in the framework of the AlgorithmWatch Algorithmic Accountability Reporting fellowship.
New study: Researching chatbots ahead of 2024 state elections
Large Language Models Continue To Be Unreliable Concerning Elections
By our research on Large Language Models and election information, we were able to substantially improve the reliability of safeguards in the Microsoft Copilot chatbot against election misinformation in German. However, barriers to data access greatly restricted our investigations into other chatbots.
Digital Services Act
AlgorithmWatch’s input on New EU Data Access Rules
AlgorithmWatch has responded to the European Commission’s consultation around achieving greater access to data from Very Large Online Platforms and Search Engines, via Article 40(4) of the Digital Services Act.
Algorithmic Accountability Reporting Fellowship
New Cohort of Fellows to Research the Political Economy Behind AI
Two years after launching our Algorithmic Accountability Reporting Fellowship, we are excited to introduce a new cohort of journalists and data scientists who will work on stories about the foundations of Artificial Intelligence and its supply chain.
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