Algorithmic Accountability Reporting Fellowship Stories

The following stories have been developed by journalists, researchers, ethicists and policy experts who have participated in AlgorithmWatch's fellowship program. Fellows from previous cohorts have also published their stories in other media outlets, such as IRPI Media, El País or EUobserver.

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The AI Revolution Comes With the Exploitation of Gig Workers

An illustration of a mountain resembling a data center and the affected community at the bottom.

Infrastructure or Intrusion? Europe’s Conflicted Data Center Expansion

A black-and-white image depicting the early computer, Bombe Machine, during World War II. In the foreground, the shadow of a woman in vintage clothing is cast on a man changing the machine's cable.

Scams and Shadow Workers: A Black Market is Selling European Accounts for AI Training

Podcast False Positives Mockup with Mobile

False Positives: A Podcast on Financial Discrimination & De-banking

“All Rise For the Honorable AI”: Algorithmic Management in Polish Electronic Courts

Generative Artificial Intelligence is slowly entering children’s lives

Automated navigation systems are still wreaking havoc on small towns’ streets

Peeking into the Black Box

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200 students failed their exams. Automated proctoring could be to blame, but doubts remain

The Automated Hunt for Cybergroomers

ChatGPT-like models boom, but small languages remain in shadows

The algorithm that blew up Italy’s school system

Basque Country: how an algorithm to assess the risk of gender-based violence sees people from “different cultures”

Reels of Fortune: Instagram-shaped memories for a bigger reach