Cori Faklaris interviewed for ‘Authorities work to find the source of racist texts sent to Black people nationwide after the election’

Source: CNN

The senders likely collected personal data by buying it online and then inputted that and other data into machine-learning algorithms to attain demographic information, Cori Faklaris, an assistant professor of software and information services at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, told the Associated Press.

“All of this means it might be easier than most people realize to make a really good guess about the race or ethnicity of the person attached to that phone number,” Faklaris said.

Read the story at https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/09/us/racist-texts-black-people-investigation-what-we-know/index.html.