What can pole dancing teach tech companies about content governance?

Dr Carolina Are, (a.k.a. @bloggeronpole) is a London-based Italian researcher, activist and blogger with a PhD in content moderation who has received direct apologies from Instagram about shadowbanning and led international protests and campaigns against online censorship. As a result, she has published some of the first studies on Instagram’s shadowban of pole dancing, and continues to publish work on de-platforming, online abuse and content moderation.

In this talk, she will discuss algorithmic bias against nudity, its relationship with the patriarchy and with whorephobia, sharing some insights from her latest studies looking at mass reporting of sex positive activists and sex workers, as well as with tips, gossip and concerns about Big Tech’s power over our bodies.

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