| | | | | | IRL Podcast Episode 4 is out today! Online disinformation has reached new highs because it's not just a human problem. It’s an algorithmic problem too. Big tech is failing democracies worldwide, by allowing lies and attacks to flourish in many languages, across many platforms.
Who’s fighting back? Grassroots groups are building their own datasets and AI tools to investigate information ecosystems in their regions and push big tech to do better.
With so many important elections held this year around the world, we need companies to be even more transparent about their recommender systems, content moderation practices, and political ads.
In this episode you’ll meet Justin Arenstein from Code for Africa who is working to dismantle disinformation across more than 20 countries. You’ll meet Tarunima Prabhakar who is fighting disinformation on WhatsApp in India, and Raashi Saxena who oversees a crowdsourced database of online hate speech in 98 languages.
Just waiting for companies to do better by their global users isn’t going to work. You’ll also hear former Facebook data engineer, Sahar Massachi, is working to get platform integrity workers clued into global research through the Integrity Institute.
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How people discovered videos they “regret” on YouTube |  | This shows how YouTube users arrived at videos they regretted viewing based on 3,362 videos shared with Mozilla via data donations.
YouTube Regrets, Jesse McCrosky and Brandi Geurkink. Mozilla, 2021
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Link Round-up Dive deeper into this episode’s theme + more with these additional resources from Mozilla. | 
| 🗳 Based on Mozilla's elections-related research, we have compiled a list of requirements that governments and populations should demand of platforms before any major election. |
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| 💪Take back control by installing Mozilla’s YouTube Regrets Reporter browser extension helping you eliminate harmful YouTube recommendations — the clickbait, the outrage, and all the other content you wish you never saw. |
Stay tuned for IRL Episode 5, coming September 12th!
J. Bob Alotta
Executive Producer IHR/IRL
VP, Global Programs
Mozilla Foundation
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