š¤ User research for consumer tech startups
š§ Innovation in social systems
Making it easier for people to lodge their disagreements doesn't change the distribution of power; it only amplifies the voices of people who already have it.
āThe reality is that tech companies have been using automated tools to moderate content for a really long time and while itās touted as this sophisticated machine learning, itās often just a list of words they think are problematic,ā said Ćngel DĆaz, a lecturer at the UCLA School of Law who studies technology and racial discrimination.
Nervous about joining an early stage startup? Let's talk about risk. There are two types of risk: job risk and career risk. People think they are the same. They aren't. They are very different.
Algospeak refers to code words or turns of phrase users have adopted in an effort to create a brand-safe lexicon that will avoid getting their posts removed or down-ranked by content moderation systems.