Stanford Law School’s Trust and Safety Research Conference – Towards Better Automated Content Moderation in Low-Resource Languages

Stanford Law School’s Trust and Safety Research Conference 2023

Hosted at Stanford University’s Frances. C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, the Trust and Safety Research Conference convenes participants working on trust and safety issues across academia, industry, civil society, and government. The event brings together a cross-disciplinary group of academics and researchers in fields including computer science, sociology, law, and political science to connect with practitioners and policymakers on challenges and new ideas for studying and addressing online trust and safety issues.

Lighting Talk track: Trust and Safety Tooling
Date: Thursday, September 28, 2023
Time: 1:30pm PT / 4:30pm ET

Lightning Talks feature five minute rapid fire presentations on research, product ideas, and survey findings presented with time for questions.

Presentations (presenters are marked with an *):

• Empowering Internet Users Through Source Credibility Ratings – Sarah Brandt* (NewsGuard)
• AI Auditing Tools: A Pathway to Operationalize Trust & Safety – Alisar Mustafa* (CivicSync)
• Preventing Tech Facilitated Gender Based Violence – Non Consensual Intimate Image Abuse – Larry Magid* (SWGfL; stopncii.org)
• Governance for End-to-End Encrypted Communities – Armin Namavari* (Cornell University); Barry Wang (Cornell University); Sanketh Menda (Cornell University); Nirvan Tyagi (Cornell University); James Grimmelmann (Cornell University); Amy Zhang (University of Washington); Thomas Ristenpart (Cornell Tech)
• Insights from The Global Disinformation Policy Database – Ryan Williams* (Global Disinformation Lab at University of Texas)
• Towards Better Automated Content Moderation in Low-Resource Languages – Gabriel Nicholas* (Center for Democracy & Technology) and Aliya Bhatia (Center for Democracy & Technology)