This session will allow participants to share information about courses they teach related to trust and safety and hear from instructors around the country about innovations in teaching in this field.
Alexios Mantzarlis, Cornell Tech
Laura McLester, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Juliet Shen, Columbia University
Olga Belogolova, Johns Hopkins University
Anthony Mensah, Stanford Engineering
Étienne Brown, San Jose State University
Jeff Lazarus, Trust & Safety Professional Association
This session will introduce Trust and Safety researchers to the Meta Content Library and demonstrate new data fields and functionalities available within the latest version of Meta Content Libraryʼs user interface (UI) and API. The hands-on demonstration will deploy research use cases to demonstrate how the data from the API and the UI can be used to shed light on questions relevant to trust and safety researchers. We will also provide an overview for how individuals and research teams can apply for access to these tools, as well as provide an opportunity for attendees to share feedback with us about our products and services.
Meta Content Library gives researchers comprehensive access to posts, videos, photos, and reels posted to public Pages, Groups, and Events on Facebook. For Instagram, the library includes content from public posts, albums, videos, and photos from personal, creator and business accounts. Robust metadata about each of these data types (e.g. view count, reshares, reactions, etc.) enables in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis.
Facilitated by Yair Rubenstein and Phil Edwards, Meta
Over the past few years, Trust & Safety teams worldwide have learned hard lessons that can now inform new efforts to develop a proper, purpose-built technology stack for Trust and Safety. The tools available today are designed and built for the internet of the 2010s but the online landscape has changed dramatically, bringing novel user behaviors and harm patterns. This space is now ripe for innovation and investment, with a clear opportunity to build and provide essential open “bricks” of this tooling stack. Join the T&S Tooling Consortium to learn how academics, researchers, and professionals can benefit from open source software and contribute to the movement.
Facilitated by Camille Francois, Eli Sugarman, Juliet Shen, Dave Willner, Rama Elluru
Outside researchers bring valuable insights and expertise when conducting studies related to Google products, including Maps, Play, Search, Shopping and YouTube particularly when it comes to Trust & Safety challenges. This workshop has three main purposes:
Weʼll aim to demonstrate the current ways in which academics and think tanks can leverage existing Google and YouTube data;
Weʼll shed light on the topics and products that researchers have already requested data to explore;
Weʼll facilitate a conversation to better understand the needs of researchers in academia, and discuss how we can address those while simultaneously adhering to regulatory requirements and protecting user data privacy and security.
The workshop will also feature a discussion centered on end-to-end data needs (e.g., what are the types of data researchers are most interested in, what formats do they need that data in, what additional information do academics need in the form of documentation to make sense of raw data).
Facilitated by Brent Besson and Angela McKay, Google
