In 2010, Media Lab students Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17, and Birago Jones SM ’12 wanted to develop a tool to assist content moderation teams at companies like Twitter and YouTube. The project prompted excitement, earning them a demo at a White House cyberbullying summit. When Dinakar struggled to create a working demo, Jones…
In 2010, Media Lab students Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17 and Birago Jones SM ’12 began a project to develop a tool to help content moderators at Twitter (now X) and YouTube spot troubling posts. While preparing for a cyberbullying summit at the White House, they realized that their model was missing nuances in…
In 2010, Media Lab students Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones began a class project to create a tool for content moderation teams at major corporations like Twitter and YouTube. The technology, which generated significant interest, was presented at a White House cyberbullying summit as a mechanism for identifying concerning posts on social media platforms. During…
In 2010, Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones began a project to develop a tool helping content moderation teams at companies like Twitter and YouTube. The aim was to assist these teams in identifying inappropriate or harmful content. The project created considerable interest and the researchers were invited to present their work at a cyberbullying summit…
In 2010, Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones, while working on a class project at Media Lab, developed a tool targeting content moderation for social media. The project, aimed at identifying harmful posts on platforms such as Twitter and YouTube, landed them a presentation at a White House cyberbullying summit. They realized before the event, however,…
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,…
