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Michael Downey 🧢

"No one should be at the mercy of an algorithm they don’t control, which was not designed to safeguard their interests."

— António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General

Read more in the UN's brand-new "Global Principles for Information Integrity", announced today: un.org/en/information-integrit

@downey Isn't being at the mercy of an algorithm you don't control the nature of the legal system in most countries?

@downey Hi! Total non expert, non technical, artist creative here — who also happens to cherish equality, freedom, and communication. I have a formatting and access question:

Why do PDFs still exist?

A PDF document says to me that the original was formatted for paper. So all the UN is printing and reading long reports on paper? No one reads on screens?

I would read this UN report if it fit my screen more easily:
un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/

(I know there are ways to read PDFs.)