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At Mozilla, we have employees, volunteers, and community members that span the globe, and we aim to ensure our organization is as diverse as the communities we serve. Here’s where we are today in our journey. ➡️ mozilla.org/diversity/2021

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📢 Announcing $400,000 USD in grants for voice technologies that leverage our open-source #Kiswahili data set. #CommonVoice

Common Voice Announces $400,000 in Awards for Kiswahili Voice Technologies

Mozilla Common Voice is announcing $400,000 USD in grants for voice technologies that leverage our open-source Kiswahili data set. Awards of up to $50,000 each will be given to winning projects in...

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Want to win a #CommonVoice tote bag? There are a few days left to enter our writing competition. ⤵️

Celebrating International Mother Languages Day

Celebrating International Mother Languages Day at Mozilla Common Voice

Our latest Creative Media Awardees explore, interrogate, and reimagine the role of data in AI systems. #MozillaAwardee

10 Projects Rethinking Data Stewardship: Announcing Mozilla’s Latest Creative Media Awards

Mozilla is providing $250,000 to people and projects that reimagine the way data is governed

Alexa, why can’t you understand me? 🗣 Find out how a lack of diversity in data training directly impacts language bias in voice-based AI ⬇️

Breaking Bias — Diverse Speech Training? For Virtual Assistants It’s Virtually Non-Existent

Virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa don't understand us all equally, even when we're speaking the same language

Facebook is giving group admins new tools to reduce misinformation: techcrunch.com/2022/03/09/fac Sincere attempt to reduce misinformation, or cynical attempt to skirt responsibility?

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Non-profit PLACE is collecting data about vulnerable and inaccessible areas to enable development plans, and help prepare and respond effectively to disasters. Learn more about this member of our #DataFuturesLab ⤵️

How PLACE is Championing Community Ownership of Maps

In Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s capital, mapping and locating roads, buildings, and houses can mean the difference between fatality and relief. PLACE is a non-profit tech organization that works with...

⏰The official wrap-up of #MozFest Virtual 2022 will begin in 15 mins! 😊Join the Closing Circle to look back with gratitude for all the interactive, educational, thought-provoking (& don't forget, enjoyable!) sessions we've experienced this week! ➡️ mzl.la/3pXiuUB

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⏰ Our final #MozFest #DialoguesandDebates session is starting in 1 hour! Join Angela Chen,

@Judithoko

@MaizeLongboat

& moderator

@crystaljjlee

to discuss how interactions with mixed reality shape young folks in their interrogations of tech?

Education in a Mixed AI Reality: A Dialogues & Debates Panel

🎉 It's the fifth & final day of #MozFest Virtual 2022! Let's go out on a high!🎉 Among all of the remaining sessions we encourage you to attend, be sure to participate in our 1st ever Zine Fair, the MozFest Science Fair & tune into our Closing Circle! mzl.la/3Cw5af3

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Join our AI Reform #DialoguesandDebates panel NOW ⬇️ Share your questions & comments using the tag!

AI Reform: A Dialogues & Debates Panel

Mozilla Foundation | Call for Proposals: Alternative Data Governance Playbook

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Researcher working on #DataGovernance & #DataStewardship? We're looking for people like you to help us research the implementation of alt approaches to data governance in Germany 🇩🇪 India 🇮🇳 Kenya 🇰🇪 & the U.S. 🇺🇸! Check out the call for proposals 🔻

docs.google.com

Call for Proposals Local Legal Researchers for Alternative Data Governance Playbook Countries to be covered by the research: Germany, India, Kenya, United States Time commitment: Approximately 12-15...

🗣️ #DialoguesandDebates at #MozFest: ❓How do the upcoming generations' growth in a mixed reality shape their interactions and interrogations of technology? ⬇️ Join Angela Chen,

and moderator

to discuss.

Education in a Mixed AI Reality: A Dialogues & Debates Panel

🎉It's Day 4 of #MozFest!🎉 😃With so many exciting sessions still left to attend, we invite you to browse through the schedule & tune in to what you can! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ bit.ly/3hLaOjR

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Today, Mozilla is opening access to an anonymous telemetry dataset that will enable researchers to explore signals of network outages around the world. 1/4

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Documenting outages to seek transparency and accountability – Data@Mozilla

Today, Mozilla is opening access to an anonymous telemetry dataset that will enable researchers to explore signals of network outages around the world.

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❓Will democracy survive AI? Join Thursday's #MozFest #DialoguesandDebates session on AI Reform with our incredible panelists:

& moderator,

, to discuss ⬇️

AI Reform: A Dialogues & Debates Panel

❓As the internet evolves, what will it look like — and who will it benefit? Let's discuss! 💡Join our live stream #MozFest #DialoguesandDebates Mozilla Plenary with

& moderator

for a deeper conversation ⬇️

metaverse or Metaverse™? - March 9, 2022

❓Is it fair to say that traditional VC is fundamentally at odds with a vision of tech that is healthier for all? ⬇️Our next #MozFest #DialoguesandDebates session with

@JZieger

, Michael Kleinman & Moderator Shu Dar Yao will begin in 30 mins! bit.ly/3MD7XYG

Mar 8

You're invited to the world premiere of Afro Algorithms from writer, filmmaker, futurist and #MozillaAwardee

@anatolaaraba

Tomorrow at

Add to your schedule ➡️ mzl.la/3HX8TTU

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⏰1 hour to go until our #MozFest #CreatorsChallenge chat with

@verotruesocial

! Join Joanne Molinaro -

, Ari Melenciano -

, Max Joseph -

& Ayman Hariri -

& our

moderator

right here! bit.ly/3pNRx5E

📢It's almost time for another #DialoguesandDebates session! ⬇️Join our #DialoguesandDebates panelists,

@biglovely1

@ameliawb

@celinecelines

& L. Franklin Gilliam & our #MozFest Exec Producer & Moderator

@jbobalotta

in 30 mins! P.S. bring questions!👇bit.ly/3Kojysl

It's Day Two of our festival & during today's initial #MozFest Studio we'll be looking at ‘Decolonizing AI Futures’ with Uffa Modey -

@Fafa416

- in our Community Spotlight & learn about Afro Algorithms. ⬇️ See you in 15mins!

Mozfest Studio - Morning Update Day 2

❓How do we develop strategies for the futures we desire &/or will likely face? Explore with our incredible #DialoguesandDebates panelists,

@biglovely1

@ameliawb

@celinecelines

, L. Franklin Gilliam & our #MozFest Exec Producer

@jbobalotta

, tomorrow ⬇️

Building Ancestral AI

❓Is it time for an AI reckoning? ⬇️Join our first #MozFest 2022 #DialoguesAndDebates panel with Adam Bly,

Moderator

in 30 mins to explore this question further.

Can AI ever be the people’s tool? Is it beholden to existing systematic structures? Is it time for an AI Reckoning? THRILLED to bring our first #DialoguesAndDebates session to the #MozFest community THIS Monday March 7. ⬇️ See you there⬇️

Join our movement for a better, healthier internet. It's not too late to reserve your ticket to #MozFest.

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How to avoid sharing bad information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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Mozilla Festival is a virtual celebration that unites tech activists from around the world. Packed with immersive technical focused sessions, we invite you to join us in supporting the movement towards a healthier internet. Secure your #MozFest ticket now

We are all absorbing an overwhelming amount of information right now and it can be hard to tell what’s real, so we put together a list of helpful resources to help you navigate it all. 🧵

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"Already, bad information about the Russian invasion has found large audiences on platforms fundamentally designed to promote content that gets engagement," cautions

@abbyohlheiser

@techreview

technologyreview.com

Even well-meaning attempts to participate in the news can play into bad actors’ campaigns.

Here's a good example of war misinfo that's plaguing TikTok right now. This video of a parachuting soldier has 20 million views on TikTok. The top comment? "Bro is recording an invasion." But he isn't. This video is from 2016.

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#MozillaAwardee TikTok Observatory by

@trackingexposed

is a research platform aimed at uncovering political censorship on TikTok. We sat down with its head

@MarcFaddoul

to find out what they've learned so far 🔻

A New Way to Keep TikTok Accountable

TikTok Observatory is a new research initiative and Mozilla Technology Fund awardee. It scrutinizes what trends — and what doesn’t — by way of Tiktok’s algorithm and moderation policies.

Join now!

Starting in 15 minutes ⌛️

Bolstered by

’s trending algorithm, Spain-based

@CitizenGO

appears to have spread disinformation in Kenya. New research from #MozillaFellow

@Odangaring

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Exporting Disinformation: How Foreign Groups Peddle Influence in Kenya through Twitter

New research by Mozilla's Odanga Madung reveals how platforms like Twitter can be weaponized by bad actors — sometimes continents away — to manipulate a country’s public discourse.

New 🚨 Twitter has permanently suspended over 240 accounts from its platform after an investigation we

did uncovered how groups with ties to the European far right have been running influence operations on Kenyan Twitter. 🔗mzl.la/3HcoIG7

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New research from #MozillaFellow, @Odangaring, finds foreign groups are peddling influence in Kenya (helped by @Twitter’s trending algorithm) with the aim of corrupting the integrity of civic debate that happens on the platform. Read on

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Tune in Tomorrow 10am ET / 3pm GMT for a conversation on Twitter Spaces with

@symeonbrown

, author of 📕 'Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition & Deceit in the New Influencer Economy' and host

@iamxavier

Set a reminder now ⤵️

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Upon presenting this research to Twitter, the platform permanently suspended over 240 accounts associated with the campaigns, deeming it a violation of their Terms of Service. Read the full research 🔻