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Today, Gina Neff and Rumman Chowdhury, Affiliate of the Minderoo Centre and previously Director of Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability at Twitter, have co-written an article for WIRED.

In the article, they write how platforms are focusing on tackling the wrong kind of online harassment.

They write about the need for tools to fight chronic online harassment and that if platforms and policymakers do not address this issue now, countless unseen others will be silenced.

Read the article 

 

About the authors

Rumman Chowdhury is a Responsible AI Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and a visiting researcher at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge. Previously, she was the Director of Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability at Twitter. 

Gina Neff is Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, and formerly the Professor of Technology & Society at Oxford.