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CSUF, UCI and Cal Poly Pomona professors team up for study to fight bias, racism in social media

Bai, Mark Wu, professor of communications at CSUF; Alex Madva, associate professor of philosophy at Cal Poly Pomona; and Chen Li, professor of computer science at UCI, submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation asking for $1.5 million for their three-year study titled “Harvesting Social Media Data to Detect and Prevent Biases in Smart and Connected Communities.” The proposal was sent in September, and they are still hopeful their project — or at least part of it — will be approved.

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