Research Director, Center for Democracy & Technology (he/him)
Member of the Advisory Board https://she-persisted.org/
| Bio | https://cdt.org/staff/dhanaraj-thakur/ |
| Center for Democracy & Technology | @CenDemTech |
In today’s episode, we dive into an often overlooked but incredibly important issue: content moderation in non-dominant languages, specifically Maghrebi Arabic dialects. Recently, CDT released a groundbreaking report titled “Moderating Maghrebi Arabic Content on Social Media,” which explores the challenges, gaps, and opportunities in ensuring fair and effective moderation of Arabic content on social platforms. […]
You can change the title of this chart and - with the exception of Orban - this process has been essentially identical, featuring the same people, for the last five years.
Online rumors as propaganda, advancing the goals of a political machine.
We chronicled how this worked in election 2020…and got investigated by Jim Jordan in retaliation.
In today’s episode, we tackle a fascinating question: What happens when an AI system deployed by a company decides to “resign”—stopping its recommendations or restricting access to its outputs? Can such actions help mitigate reputational or legal risks for organizations? To help us explore this, we’re joined by Dr. Umang Bhatt, Assistant Professor and Faculty […]
The simple truth is that nonconsensual porn AI "nudify" apps are viable because they get almost all of their traffic from social media ads. One of the largest one is getting *90 percent* of its traffic from Instagram ads. 90 percent! This is only going to get worse
https://www.404media.co/instagram-ads-send-this-nudify-site-90-percent-of-its-traffic/
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