Presented at
The Circle Of HOPE (2018),
July 21, 2018, 8 p.m.
(60 minutes)
The algorithm gives a personalized experience to each of us: the only way to understand its agenda, priorities, and values is through collective observation. With the https://facebook.tracking.exposed project, Claudio did some black box testing of the Facebook algorithm. It can be replicated by other researchers or among your group of friends. Spoiler: there is no algorithm neutrality; every user should be in control of their algorithm.
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Claudio Agosti
**Claudio Agosti** (@_vecna) began as a hacker in the late 1990s, passionate on low-level networking and operating systems, and therefore paranoid about surveillance. That was the driving force to shift into becoming a privacy hacktivist and, later on, solely addressing corporate surveillance, web tracking, and algorithm manipulation. His last project began in 2016, is https://facebook.tracking.exposed, and has been used in time of turmoil, or during electoral campaigns (Italy, France, and Argentina) to monitor how the algorithm influences public discourse.
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