In 2010, Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones, two students from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, collaborated on a project aimed at supporting content moderation teams for social media companies such as Twitter and YouTube. Their ambition was to develop a tool capable of identifying concerning posts online. Despite some initial struggles,…
In 2010, Media Lab students Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, Ph.D.’17, and Birago Jones SM ’12 developed a tool intended to assist content moderation teams for platforms such as Twitter and YouTube. The tool aimed to flag harmful content, with a key focus on posts that could be linked to cyberbullying. The project was warmly received,…
In 2010, Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones, students at the Media Lab, teamed up to create a tool designed to aid content moderation teams at companies including Twitter and YouTube. The project generated widespread interest and soon they were invited to the White House to demonstrate their technology designed to identify concerning posts on these…
In 2010, MIT Media Lab students Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17 and Birago Jones SM ’12 embarked on creating a tool to assist content moderation teams at companies like Twitter (now X) and YouTube. Their demo, which was presented at a cyberbullying summit at the White House, identified troublesome posts through machine learning. However,…
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been collaborating with Roxbury, Massachusetts' Camfield Estates housing development for over a decade, helping to combat systemic racial disparities in housing. Led by Associate Professor Catherine D'Ignazio, a team from the MIT Initiative for Combatting Systemic Racism (ICSR) primarily focus their research on the impact of data and…
First-year students in the Social and Engineering Systems (SES) doctoral program at MIT, Eric Liu and Ashely Peake, are interested in investigating housing inequality issues. They took the opportunity to conduct hands-on research on real-world problems at the MIT Policy Hackathon, an event that invites participants globally to find potential solutions to societal challenges. This…
First-year students in MIT's Social and Engineering Systems (SES) doctoral program, Eric Liu and Ashley Peake, have a unique interest in investigating housing inequality issues. At the MIT Policy Hackathon, they had an opportunity to apply their knowledge and conduct research on these real-world issues. The hackathon, organized by students in the IDSS and TPP,…
First year students, Eric Liu and Ashely Peake, from the Social and Engineering Systems (SES) doctoral program at MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), are researching housing inequality issues. They used a policy hackathon organized by IDSS as an opportunity for hands-on research. The annual event gathers participants from around the world to…
Eric Liu and Ashely Peake, first-year students in the Social and Engineering Systems (SES) doctoral program within the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), started their academic journey keen on overcoming housing inequality issues. They had their first hands-on research experience by participating in the MIT Policy Hackathon. Run by students from IDSS…