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Is Pokémon Go racist? How the app may be redlining communities of color

Through a crowdsourcing social media campaign in 2016, several journalists and researchers demonstrated that augmented reality locations in the popular smartphone game Pokemon Go were more likely to be in white neighborhoods.

Severity: HighUnfair discrimination and misrepresentation

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