Algorithms are increasingly playing a significant role in facilitating connections on social media platforms, from powering recommendations that help businesses connect with users, to amplifying movements like #MeToo that enable positive socio-cultural shifts. However, they have also been deployed as vectors of harm, both intentionally and unintentionally. In this blog we take a quick look into what some of these harms might be, what governments are doing to mitigate them, and what can be done to ensure that algorithms are developed with safety, fairness and ethics in mind.

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