Becca Ricks
Becca Ricks is the Head of Open Source Research & Investigations at Mozilla Foundation, where she explores how people engage in forms of resistance and exercise control over platform algorithms. She is a researcher-programmer-artist taking a critical approach to the design of AI/ML technologies.
Latest research
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Mozilla’s Elections Casebook
Feb. 27, 2024Elections / Platform accountabilityMozilla's Elections Casebook scrutinizes what steps platforms have taken to protect election integrity globally. Case studies explore the impact of platform policies and interventions.
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Does This Button Work? Investigating YouTube's ineffective user controls
Sept. 20, 2022Platform accountability / AI fairness, accountability, and transparency / Tech policy & regulationPowered by 22,722 volunteers, Mozilla scrutinized YouTube to determine how much control people actually have over the platform’s recommendation algorithm. This is what we learned.
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Trustworthy AI White Paper
Dec. 15, 2020AI fairness, accountability, and transparencyA Mozilla white paper on challenges and opportunities in the AI era.
