Cybersecurity & Tech

Lawfare Daily: Charlotte Willner and David Sullivan on Content Moderation in the Age of AI

Kevin Frazier, Quinta Jurecic, Charlotte Willner, David Sullivan, Jen Patja
Monday, June 10, 2024, 8:00 AM
Discussing the tradeoffs involved in content moderation
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Charlotte Willner, Executive Director of the Trust and Safety Professional Association, and David Sullivan, Executive Director of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership, join Lawfare's Tarbell Fellow Kevin Frazier and Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic to discuss content moderation in the age of AI. Following 97 self-described data labellers, content moderators, and AI workers publishing an open letter describing deplorable working conditions, Charlotte and David break down what's new and what's not about the ongoing trade-offs involved in content moderation. The group also dives into the evolution of content moderation and analyzes the effects of relatively recent regulations, such as the EU's Digital Services Act, on trust and safety work.

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Kevin Frazier

Kevin Frazier

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Kevin Frazier is an Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and Senior Research Fellow in the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin. He is writing for Lawfare as a Tarbell Fellow.
Quinta Jurecic

Quinta Jurecic

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Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.
Charlotte Willner

Charlotte Willner

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Charlotte Willner is the executive director of the Trust and Safety Professionals Association, an organization that brings together the professionals that write and enforce the rules for what’s fair game and what’s not on online platforms. She previously worked in Trust and Safety at Pinterest and before that she built the very first safety operations team at Facebook.
David Sullivan

David Sullivan

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David Sullivan is the founding Executive Director of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership. He previously served as program director at the Global Network Initiative.
Jen Patja

Jen Patja

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Jen Patja is the editor and producer of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security. She currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics, a nonprofit organization that empowers the next generation of leaders in Virginia by promoting constitutional literacy, critical thinking, and civic engagement. She is the former Deputy Director of the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier and has been a freelance editor for over 20 years.

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