Digging Into Facebook's File on You

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🗓️ 28 September 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Algorithms are everywhere in our daily lives. But most of the time, we have no idea how they work. In this week's episode, ProPublica investigative journalist Julia Angwin explains how Facebook's algorithms categorize us. Plus, Note to Self listeners, we want you to get involved. Try out ProPublica's new tool, and tell us what you discover.

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0:00.0	So it's almost like that game that I play when I go out to a restaurant with my husband
0:05.4	and we watch people and we try to predict what we think their life really is.
0:09.9	Yeah, but just to pretend you and your husband were God and you already knew everything
0:15.0	and your guesses were really good.
0:17.2	If you think about what Facebook knows about that couple, they know a lot more, right?
0:21.4	They know all their past, they know all their friends, they know which friends probably
0:26.7	set them up.
0:29.2	Facebook has a lot of information it's using to make these guesses.
0:36.8	It's note to self, the tech show about being human, I'm a new summer Odie.
0:42.2	And this is a special episode that we are doing with our friends at ProPublica.
0:47.0	We are helping them launch a big and important project.
0:50.4	They need your input to make it work.
0:52.9	Listeners, so I want to introduce you to Julia Anguin.
0:56.5	She is the award-winning investigative journalist who tackles privacy issues at ProPublica.
1:02.5	Her latest book was Dragonet Nation.
1:05.0	Maybe you read it, maybe you heard her on another show here at WNYC.
1:08.5	In any case, though, she is a wonderful woman and she is sitting here in the studio with
1:11.8	me.
1:12.8	Hi, Julia.
1:13.8	So great to be here.
1:14.8	Okay.
1:15.8	So, broad brush strokes.
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