Who is responsible for anti-racist technology?

<v ->I’d like to think all of us, you know,</v> I would like to say that we can put this responsibility on the teams creating tech, and that’s certainly where my work falls. Putting pressure on tech companies, whether that’s leadership, engineering teams, marketing teams, but the reality is we don’t live in a version of capitalism that’s optimising for equity, or belonging, or anti-racism. We live in a version of capitalism that kind of, really matured on a foundation of the things we’re now fighting against. So, if we want anti-racism to be the default quickly, and I certainly do, I wish it happened yesterday, then I think we also need to take some responsibility as end users and consumers.

And, I think we have more power than we think, you know?

Like, 1/3 of a billion people are using Facebook products every few weeks you know, if not like 1/2 a billion every month, like, it’s ridiculous across Instagram, WhatsApp, and all that kind of platforms, there’s a lot of collective power there. If people were to decide to push for greater transparency, push for more work, to challenge the bias within algorithms, and I think it’s really important for us as end users, and individuals, consumers, to do more and more of that if we can.