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. […]

Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast · Episode

Romance scams cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As people grow increasingly isolated, and generative AI helps scammers scale their crimes, the problem could get worse.

Do the possibilities presented by an innovative, open, and free internet inspire you? Do you find yourself engaged in passionate discussions about privacy policies? If so, you might be a great fit for our team.

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ByteDance now has to show that it’s making significant progress on a deal to sell TikTok to a US-based company.

[ PDF version ] Introduction Africa, a continent with over 2,000 languages and home to more than one-third of the world’s linguistic diversity, has many languages that remain beyond the reach of both automated and human content moderation (Shiundu, 2023). Social media platforms have a limited physical presence in Africa, operating only a few offices […]

Press freedom NGO describes Israeli killing of reporters working in Gaza as an ‘unprecedented bloodbath’

Language models developed by big technology companies consistently underperform in African languages. It’s time to focus on local solutions. Language models developed by big technology companies consistently underperform in African languages. It’s time to focus on local solutions.

Unicode Consortium says details of emoji design are up to device manufacturers

This report is also authored by Robert Gorwa. [ PDF version ] Executive Summary  In recent years, a range of new online services have emerged that facilitate the ‘livestreaming’ of real-time video and audio. Through these tools, users and content creators around the world can easily broadcast their activities to potentially large global audiences, facilitating […]