This is a profile of Mozilla Technology Fund awardee AI Forensics. A non-profit which investigates influential algorithms. It was previously known as Tracking Exposed, a project which had been pioneering new methods to hold big tech platforms accountable since 2016.
This is a profile of Mozilla Technology Fund awardee CheckFirst. Through their CrossOver project, they have been investigating disinformation peddled through algorithmic content recommendations on platforms such as Google News, Twitter, and YouTube in eight French-speaking countries and regions.
Tidepool is an incubatee of Mozilla’s Data Futures Lab — which this year, is funding selected projects to develop data donation initiatives for public interest innovations. Through its Big Data Donation Project, Tidepool has been supporting the advancement of diabetes research by sharing anonymized data from people living with diabetes with researchers.
New research by Mozilla Fellow Dr. Abeba Birhane and others reveals how expanding AI training datasets leads to disproportionately more bias and discrimination
A civic tech organization in India, Tattle, is buckling up to grant users more agency over how to protect themselves and report online abuse. Tattle’s latest product Uli, enables users to block and report hateful content on their social media feeds.
