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📢 Announcing $400,000 USD in grants for voice technologies that leverage our open-source #Kiswahili data set. #CommonVoice
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Our latest Creative Media Awardees explore, interrogate, and reimagine the role of data in AI systems. #MozillaAwardee
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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 ⬇️
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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 ⤵️
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⏰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, , & moderator to discuss how interactions with mixed reality shape young folks in their interrogations of tech?
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🎉 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!
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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 🔻
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🗣️ #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.
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🎉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!
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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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❓Will democracy survive AI?
Join Thursday's #MozFest #DialoguesandDebates session on AI Reform with our incredible panelists: & moderator, , to discuss ⬇️
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❓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 ⬇️
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❓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 , Michael Kleinman & Moderator Shu Dar Yao will begin in 30 mins!
bit.ly/3MD7XYG
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You're invited to the world premiere of Afro Algorithms from writer, filmmaker, futurist and #MozillaAwardee
Tomorrow at
Add to your schedule ➡️ mzl.la/3HX8TTU
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⏰1 hour to go until our #MozFest #CreatorsChallenge chat with !
Join Joanne Molinaro - , Ari Melenciano - , Max Joseph - & Ayman Hariri - & our moderator right here!
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📢It's almost time for another #DialoguesandDebates session!
⬇️Join our #DialoguesandDebates panelists, , , & L. Franklin Gilliam & our #MozFest Exec Producer & Moderator in 30 mins!
P.S. bring questions!👇 bit.ly/3Kojysl
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❓How do we develop strategies for the futures we desire &/or will likely face?
Explore with our incredible #DialoguesandDebates panelists, , , , L. Franklin Gilliam & our #MozFest Exec Producer , tomorrow ⬇️
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❓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.
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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⬇️
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Join our movement for a better, healthier internet.
It's not too late to reserve your ticket to #MozFest.
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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 ![⤵️](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20220320151858im_/https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/2935.svg)
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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 in .
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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 is a research platform aimed at uncovering political censorship on TikTok.
We sat down with its head to find out what they've learned so far 🔻
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Bolstered by ’s trending algorithm, Spain-based appears to have spread disinformation in Kenya.
New research from #MozillaFellow 🔻
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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.
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Tune in Tomorrow 10am ET / 3pm GMT for a conversation on Twitter Spaces with , author of 📕 'Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition & Deceit in the New Influencer Economy' and host
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 🔻
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Research from shows that these Twitter campaigns had several key markings of inauthentic, coordinated behavior including repeated identical hashtags, phrases, and memes; or came from accounts that tweeted nothing but the hashtags; and were carefully synchronized.
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These were important conversations that frequently unfolded on Twitter, but research suggests that Spain-based organization helped steer these conversations by inserting misinformation & inflammatory rhetoric & attacking Kenyan politicians who advocated for the bills.
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