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Key components of counterdata include (1) the correction of misrepresentative data, (2) the 1 Stefania Milan and Miren Gutierrez, “Technopolitics in the age of Big Data,” Networks, Movements and Technopolitics in Latin America: Critical control of data collection and production, and (3) the strategic use of data to Analysis and Current Challenges, eds. [...] Her collection of data disaggregated by race dared to fill the missing information on the landscape of lynching in the United States.5 In this process, she was able to debunk myths surrounding the nature of Black life that were often used to falsely justify killings. [...] Created in reaction to the lack of accurate reporting on the impacts of COVID-19 on Black communities, Data for Black Lives created a network of scientists at various city hubs in the country to collect and report on local COVID-19 data. [...] The maps that Val presents in this paper center the emotions of feminist activists on the front lines of reporting and data collection. [...] But what can data outside the con- text of resistance afford communities? Indigenous data practices have often pushed back against the limitations of counterdata in favor of data practic- es that primarily serve their own communities.22 Nonetheless, the rhetoric around counterdata is still constrained by the construct of the statistical dataset — an inherently quantitative tool.