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The news in black and white: word embeddings quantify racism in South African news.

EPJ Data Sci · 2025 · PMC12660342 · PMID 41323296

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8 Using the same health adjectives with a race dimension created using speaker names produced a stronger and highly significant bias (WEAT = −0.59, p < 0.01), with most healthy adjectives associated with White speakers.

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