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In this Medium post, BKC Fellow Ben Green calls for the disentanglement of the concepts of unfairness and injustice within the Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency movement.

"[H]ighlighting fairness at the expense of justice reinforces the dangerous presumption that technical systems are politically-neutral tools. While this view is appealing to computer scientists, it denies the well-established fact that algorithms exist in a social, political, and legal context where technical systems can bolster power, alter perceptions, and shroud behavior."

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