Algorithmic Accountability Reporting: On the Investigation of Black Boxes

I'm indebted to a number of people who were generous with their time in providing feedback and helping me to think through and shape the ideas presented here. I'm grateful to those whom I interviewed about their experience reverse engineering stories, including and Cliff Stein, whose collective feedback greatly improved the work. I've also benefited from the intellectual environment at the Tow Center at Columbia University, created by Emily Bell and Taylor Owen, the helpful feedback from other Tow Fellows, and the copyediting of Abigail Ronck. Any mistakes left are on me. 1 " We should interrogate the architecture of cyberspace as we interrogate the code of Congress. " – Lawrence Lessig