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China is Scrutinizing the Big Tech Algorithms

Should the US and the EU follow suit?

Clark Boyd
8 min readAug 22, 2022

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China’s data watchdog (the Cyberspace Administration of China, or CAC) released a list of 30 algorithms that have been submitted for analysis by the country’s biggest technology firms, including Alibaba and ByteDance. This comes after the Chinese government passed new regulations that compel the tech giants to agree to…

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Clark Boyd

Tech/business writer, CEO (Novela), lecturer (Columbia), and data analyst. >500k views on Medium. I used to be with it, but then they changed what ‘it’ was.