UltraViolet, as well as other gender justice, tech accountability, and pro-democracy organizations, have launched a joint campaign in response. In a petition with over 29,000 signatures at the time of this writing, they call on Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram head Adam Mosseri to stop censoring posts about the Cornell case.
Last week, Apple’s Siri for iPhone 4S ignited a firestorm when the personal assistant failed to locate local abortion clinics.
Last week’s abortion “glitch” was the latest in a series of embarrassments for Apple’s bot. Apple apologized(-ish) for the issue, but the half-hearted statement and unchanged software has yet to quell the anger. The criticisms still continue via petitions , including one at SignOn.org that got over 30,000 signatures in 48 hours, petition author Nita Chaudhary told CBS News. Unfortunately, the abortion-query problem is just a micro representation of a macro problem: Siri just doesn’t work that well.
Last week a firestorm broke out over the iPhone 4S’s personal assistant Siri’s omission of abortion clinics.
In the past 24 hours, more than 27,000 people have signed a petition asking Apple to stop iPhone voice assistant Siri from directing women to anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” when they ask where to get an abortion.
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