Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

Founded by MIT graduates Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones, Pienso is a platform that allows non-specialists to build machine-learning models to address societal issues. The idea stemmed from their 2010 study at MIT's Media Lab, where they developed a content moderation tool for companies like Twitter and YouTube. The innovation got companies excited and the…

Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones, both MIT graduates, developed a tool facilitating social media content moderation as part of a class project in 2010. The project generated significant interest and was demonstrated at a White House cyberbullying summit. However, they initially struggled with their demo due to their unfamiliarity with teenage slang used in harmful…

In 2010, Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones, students at the Media Lab, collaborated to develop a tool that could assist content moderation teams in identifying concerning posts on platforms like Twitter and YouTube. Their innovation received extensive attention, leading to an invitation to present their creation at a cyberbullying seminar at the White House. However,…

In 2010, Media Lab students at MIT, Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones, embarked on a class project to create a tool aimed at aiding content moderation teams at companies such as Twitter and YouTube. The innovative project generated considerable interest, leading to an opportunity to demonstrate the tool at a White House cyberbullying summit. However,…

As students at the Media Lab in 2010, Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17 and Birago Jones SM ’12 embarked on a project to build a tool for moderating content on platforms such as Twitter and YouTube. The project received so much attention that they were invited to demonstrate it at a cyberbullying summit at…

Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17 and Birago Jones SM ’12, former Media Lab students, developed a tool in 2010 to aid content moderation teams in companies like Twitter (now X) and YouTube. While getting ready to present this project at a cyberbullying summit at the White House, the pair discovered an issue with their…

In 2010, MIT Media Lab students Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones embarked on a project to develop a tool to aid content moderation for companies like Twitter and YouTube. The original concept had difficulty identifying posts using teenage slang and other non-obvious language nuances, but after realizing those most familiar with the data should be…