There are fewer Pokemon Go locations in black neighborhoods, but why?

Posted by motardo on Saturday July 16, 2016 @02:12PM
from the bnd.com dept.

http://www.bnd.com/news/nation-world/national/article89562297.html

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Re:There are fewer Pokemon Go locations in black neighborhoo... by waterphone on Saturday July 16, 2016 @08:22PM (#12108422)

There's also virtually nothing in rural areas. The game is certainly biased for certain areas over others, and people outside of those areas are effectively excluded from participating.

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Re:There are fewer Pokemon Go locations in black neighborhoo... by motardo on Saturday July 16, 2016 @02:12PM (#12107316)

The pokeman locations where crowd-sourced, and unsurprisingly the crowd was skewed white.

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