Invisible Hands, Visible Futures
The Rise of Africa’s Data Worker Movement in the Age of AI
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What If Sharing Was Training?
On social platforms and the legibility stack
- Big Tech Watch
On Humans In The Loop
A filmmaker’s view on telling the story of AI from the margins
- Big Tech Watch
Dirty Laundry: My Journey Through the Algorithm from Soweto to Nairobi’s Tech Hub
A former Meta content moderator opens up about working in the Global South “digital sweatshops” that keep Big Tech running.
- Big Tech Watch
The Algorithm’s Ghost Workers and the Illusion of Opportunity
The testimony of a data worker
- Big Tech Watch
The Data Workers’ Inquiry
Lessons learned from the core team
- Big Tech Watch
Platforms and the Risk of Precarity
Examining the benefits and challenges of platform-enabled data work in Venezuela.
- Big Tech Watch
Social Relations under Surveillance Capitalism: Is Solidarity Still Possible?
In George Orwell’s 1984, the state used its absolute power to disrupt human connections, even to eliminate love. Are we now living in a real-world version of 1984 where Big Brother is Big Tech? What does this mean for the world of work and is resistance still possible?
- The New Precariat
‘Crowds as Code’ in the Global Data Value Chain
The hidden human labor behind the world’s most complex AI systems
- Big Tech Watch
- Inside Intelligence
- The New Precariat