AI-powered moderation promises safety but delivers injustice. This article diagnoses inequities: tech monopolies hoard data and models privilege English, all reinforcing the digital marginalization rooted in colonialism.
By @farhana-shahid.bsky.social at @aaai.org.web.brid.gy
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Are you an HCI researcher from or who studies the Global Majority? Reviewed research about Global Majority for HCI venues?
@farhana-shahid.bsky.social & I are conducting research on peer review experience of research by and about Global Majority.
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Graphic for CDT Research report, entitled “Moderating Quechua Content on Social Media.” Illustration of Pachamama in purple, with green hair and golden earrings, with a digital texture in the background and small persons in the foreground.
How do content moderation systems treat Indigenous languages online? CDT’s research report from @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social dives into how platforms moderate Quechua, a widely spoken but low-resource Indigenous language of South America—& reveals linguistic inequities. cdt.org/insights/mod...
We’re hosting #COMPASS2025 workshop to uncover hidden curriculum & implicit writing norms for interdisciplinary computing audience ✍
We’re inviting early career researchers—new to academic/ interdisciplinary writing/ from Global Majority to apply: forms.gle/2Rr8fymNpxCP...
#FAccT2025 keynote 3: Kristian Lum highlights how abstract benchmarks of bias may not be relevant to any use case at all until we consider the context! She encourages to integrate human-centric evals with current eval efforts on model capabilities
5/n #FAccT2025 plenary panel: Yannis Ioannidis talks about the importance of sustaining our efforts to do open science research within ACM and FAccT community!
4/n #FAccT2025 plenary panel: AJung Moon questioned the scattered use of “audit” in venues like FAccT, critically engage with what should audit mean, and operationalize audit at a global level to ensure participation by everyone
3/n #FAccT2025 plenary panel: Sorelle Friedler emphasizes taking action: creating standards & intellectual norms to put pressure on industry, encouraged researchers to talk to journalists to disseminate their work!
2/n #FAccT2025 plenary panel: Rohit Chopra highlights how history has shown that laissez faire & no regulation don’t lead to better innovation, How in the US & EU debate around AI regulation is framed as losing geopolitical fights against adversaries!
1/n #FAccT2025 plenary panel: Brent Hecht talks about how we need to turn our focus to “material harms” beyond “representational harms” & think beyond “name-&-shame” approach to not lose our fight against AI harms!
Fascinating article from two researchers who have been studying right wing media with recommendations for how the left can/should build new media infrastructure to compete: jacobin.com/2025/03/left...
Reflection as a 4th yr PhD:
1. warmed up to possibility of academic rejection! I make a large tiramisu following rejection & look forward to waking up in the morning to breakfast w tiramisu 🥹🫶🏽
2. learning what’s not a good fit for my interests & slowly giving up on fomo 🙌🏾
I had a great time w CDT Research team 🙌🏾
I bonded w my academic identity more🤝🏾
realized how the fabrics of academia & civil society align & differ!
met amazing people in DC policy space!
💯 recommended to anyone int!
happy to answer ques!
