July 20, 2021
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Councils’ “hidden algorithms” profile millions on benefits, Big Brother Watch investigation finds
Big Brother Watch’s new report “Poverty Panopticon: the hidden algorithms shaping Britain’s welfare state”, published today, reveals that 540,000 benefits applicants are secretly assigned fraud risk scores by councils’ algorithms before they can access housing benefit or council tax support…250,000+ people’s data is processed by a range of secretive automated tools to predict the likelihood… Continue reading
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Breaking through the Western Media Propaganda Coverage of Cuba Protests
While there are plenty of reasons for ordinary Cubans to currently feel disenchanted about life on the island, there are also strong suspicions that these protests were not quite the grassroots uprising they were made out to be in the U.S. press. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 