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Amazon’s "moratorium" on selling facial recognition tech to cops expires this June... and our countdown begins today with the #EyesOnAmazon campaign & ending with a Week of Action to demand Amazon stop fueling our country’s violent police state. Register to join us and learn more here on our site: https://mediajustice.org//eyesonamazon-countdown-to-week-/

"In applying a vague, standardless penalty and then referring this case to the Board to resolve, Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities. The Board declines Facebook’s request and insists that Facebook apply and justify a defined penalty." The Facebook Oversight Board's decision is generating a lot of buzz, but here's the tl;dr: they took 5 months to say they won't take the case after all, then gave FB 6 months for additional performance and stalling. Waiting until the Capitol was overrun by white supremacists to ban Trump was too little, far too late. The Oversight Board decision isn't a victory, it's passing the buck. Read our full statement on our site: https://mediajustice.org//upholding-of-trumps-facebook-su/ It's past time to #FireZuck.

Starting May 12, the Emergency Broadband Benefit program will begin offering a monthly broadband service discount to eligible households. This is huge. Let’s spread the news far and wide about the benefit & how to apply: https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandbenefit

LIVE NOW: Join us as we uncover carceral innovations and what’s at stake for the millions on probation and parole and their communities with Columbia University School of Social Work 's Vincent Schiraldi, MediaJustice's James Kilgore, and freelance journalist Victoria Law. https://bit.ly/3gEzUBw

What do ankle monitors, facial recognition software & pretrial risk assessment tools all have in common? They’re part of the surveillance state net keeping our communities trapped in the criminal legal system. Learn this and more at "E-carceration 101" Tue, 4/27 hosted by our own James Kilgore. https://mediajustice.zoom.us//tJEqc-irqzkpGt22MwIUtbkyV-Pl

Racially biased algorithms aren’t just unfair or deceptive, they support white supremacy by design and result in the ongoing traumatization of our people. #CodedBias