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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.
- Date it happened
- 2016-03-01
- Organisation involved
- Niantic Labs
- Product, system or model
- augmented reality (AR) game Pokémon Go that blends virtual creatures from the Pokémon franchise with real-world locations
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