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April 8, 2020 02:44 pm
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/8/21213357/clearview-ai-alt-right-racism-ceo-ton-that-facial-recognition
Clearview AI CEO disavows white nationalism after expos on alt-right ties
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Two employees of controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI have been found to have ties to white nationalism, according to an exhaustive report by HuffPost published on Tuesday.
The report found that one investigator for the company belonged to a white nationalist group based in Washington, DC who continued to work for the company as recently as last month. Another employee had enthusiastically endorsed “Islamophobia, Eurocentrism and anti-Semitism” in online writings in 2015.
Reached by The Verge, Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That said he was unaware of the online writings and that neither employee remains with the company.
“I am not a white supremacist or an...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/8/21213357/clearview-ai-alt-right-racism-ceo-ton-that-facial-recognition
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