Digital Governance Lab

governance of technology and governance through technology

Class Two: Content Moderation

Announcements

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML) seminar

Evaluating Differentially Private Machine Learning in Practice

• Bargav Jayaraman
  • Department of Computer Science
  • University of Virginia
• 12:00 PM Friday September 13th, 2019 in Rice 242

Abstract: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/pubs/usenix2019/

Re-Introductions (5 minutes)

Some folks have dropped and some have added. Let’s do a brief introduction

Review of Assigned Media + New Media (40 minutes)

• Patriot Act
  • Law allowing companies to moderate content
  • Incentives
  • Mechanisms
  • Regulations
• New Yorker
  • Psychology of content moderators
  • Labor rights
• EFF
  • Challenges of implementing content moderation
  • Geo-political influences
  • Transparency
  • Steps forward

Feedback (5 minutes)

• Did we like using Github?
• Course site issues?