Mozilla Explains

Algorithms have a lot to answer for when fake news and rumors go viral – from fake celebrity deaths to political attacks and medical mistruths, this is for you.

Have you ever been on the receiving end of a bureaucratic process that seemed to defy logic? In this episode of Mozilla Explains, Mozilla Fellow and former Google public policy attorney Richard Whitt returns to explore the third type of institutional AI: bureaucratic unseens, and how a personal AI might interact with them.

What if Alexa, Siri or Google Home were truly tailored for you, and just for you? A personal assistant that worked in your best interests, not the financial interests of a major corporation?

Ever wondered how your online activity could affect your ability to get credit? Anouk Ruhaak explains Data Brokers and the surprising ways social media might affect your finances in this episode of Mozilla Explains.

How can artificial intelligence be biased? Sometimes it’s as a result of prejudices in the training data that taught the AI.

Why are companies and governments collecting data about you? How are they keeping it safe? In this week’s Mozilla Explains, we talk data protection.

Artificial intelligence knows way more about you than you may realize. In this episode of Mozilla Explains, Panoptykon Foundation’s Katarzyna Szymielewicz explains the three layers of your digital profile.

What is the digital divide? And can we bridge it? Alice Munyua explains.

The more YouTube you watch, the more ad money the site makes. What happens when that profit model goes unchecked?

A primer on YouTube's recommendation algorithm.

Dating app usage is on the rise. If you're one of the millions of people looking for love online, you might be wondering, how does the app know who to show you next?

Mozilla Explains "What is An Ethical Artificial Intelligence?" With Cansu Canca