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Fasica is an incredibly gifted writer and storyteller, and it’s been such a joy and privilege to watch her vision come to life.
Congrats, @fasica.bsky.social! So well deserved! ❤️
Congrats, @fasica.bsky.social! So well deserved! ❤️
🎉✨ Huge congrats to @fasica.bsky.social for being shortlisted for the True Story Award!
Her brilliant piece on content moderation stood out among over 1000 submissions from around the world, placing in the top 3%.
truestoryaward.org/story/508
Her brilliant piece on content moderation stood out among over 1000 submissions from around the world, placing in the top 3%.
truestoryaward.org/story/508
July 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Fasica is an incredibly gifted writer and storyteller, and it’s been such a joy and privilege to watch her vision come to life.
Congrats, @fasica.bsky.social! So well deserved! ❤️
Congrats, @fasica.bsky.social! So well deserved! ❤️
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🎉✨ Huge congrats to @fasica.bsky.social for being shortlisted for the True Story Award!
Her brilliant piece on content moderation stood out among over 1000 submissions from around the world, placing in the top 3%.
truestoryaward.org/story/508
Her brilliant piece on content moderation stood out among over 1000 submissions from around the world, placing in the top 3%.
truestoryaward.org/story/508
July 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🎉✨ Huge congrats to @fasica.bsky.social for being shortlisted for the True Story Award!
Her brilliant piece on content moderation stood out among over 1000 submissions from around the world, placing in the top 3%.
truestoryaward.org/story/508
Her brilliant piece on content moderation stood out among over 1000 submissions from around the world, placing in the top 3%.
truestoryaward.org/story/508
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April 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Thank you to @prithvi97.bsky.social for covering our research on the failures of content moderation in the context of #TigrayGenocide and how to prevent genocidal speech from being proliferated by social media platforms.
www.techpolicy.press/what-a-new-s...
www.techpolicy.press/what-a-new-s...
What a New Study Reveals About Content Moderation in Tigray | TechPolicy.Press
Prithvi Iyer looks at new research into the failures of content moderation in the context of the conflict in Tigray.
www.techpolicy.press
April 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Thank you to @prithvi97.bsky.social for covering our research on the failures of content moderation in the context of #TigrayGenocide and how to prevent genocidal speech from being proliferated by social media platforms.
www.techpolicy.press/what-a-new-s...
www.techpolicy.press/what-a-new-s...
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My painting TROUT WATER
April 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
My painting TROUT WATER
I would choose the bear too 😆
April 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I would choose the bear too 😆
The Earth provides enough for every living being. Same flower, both the bee and butterfly ate from it without putting a fight. I think something humans should learn from.
I'm spending more time in nature, & I'm happy to experience this 😊
I'm spending more time in nature, & I'm happy to experience this 😊
April 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The Earth provides enough for every living being. Same flower, both the bee and butterfly ate from it without putting a fight. I think something humans should learn from.
I'm spending more time in nature, & I'm happy to experience this 😊
I'm spending more time in nature, & I'm happy to experience this 😊
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And if you do nothing else, please watch this short video narrated by Fasica, the lead author of the CHI paper, Nuredin Ali, and exiled Ethiopian journalist @zekuzelalem.bsky.social:
peertube.dair-institute.org/w/wTpAFSQkB2...
peertube.dair-institute.org/w/wTpAFSQkB2...
Effective Moderation of Social Media Content to Curb Genocidal Content
The 2020-2022 Tigray war is reported to be the deadliest armed conflict of the 21𝑠𝑡 century, with an estimated 600 to 800,000 documented deaths and more than 100 thousand victims of rape as a weapo...
peertube.dair-institute.org
April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
And if you do nothing else, please watch this short video narrated by Fasica, the lead author of the CHI paper, Nuredin Ali, and exiled Ethiopian journalist @zekuzelalem.bsky.social:
peertube.dair-institute.org/w/wTpAFSQkB2...
peertube.dair-institute.org/w/wTpAFSQkB2...
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Please send it over to anyone who will listen and can do something about it. Our people can’t afford another war.
Our first academic paper on the topic will be presented at CHI in May: drive.google.com/file/d/1gPcU....
Our first academic paper on the topic will be presented at CHI in May: drive.google.com/file/d/1gPcU....
April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Please send it over to anyone who will listen and can do something about it. Our people can’t afford another war.
Our first academic paper on the topic will be presented at CHI in May: drive.google.com/file/d/1gPcU....
Our first academic paper on the topic will be presented at CHI in May: drive.google.com/file/d/1gPcU....
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➡️ Find our work thus far on www.dair-institute.org/tigray-genoc....
➡️ More importantly, we have a statement describing the unbridled war mongering currently spreading on ALL social media platforms, setting the stage for all out war between Ethiopia & Eritrea:
www.dair-institute.org/blog/tigray-...
➡️ More importantly, we have a statement describing the unbridled war mongering currently spreading on ALL social media platforms, setting the stage for all out war between Ethiopia & Eritrea:
www.dair-institute.org/blog/tigray-...
Social Media Platforms Are Spreading Violent Warmongering Content Encouraging All-Out War Between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Again
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
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April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
➡️ Find our work thus far on www.dair-institute.org/tigray-genoc....
➡️ More importantly, we have a statement describing the unbridled war mongering currently spreading on ALL social media platforms, setting the stage for all out war between Ethiopia & Eritrea:
www.dair-institute.org/blog/tigray-...
➡️ More importantly, we have a statement describing the unbridled war mongering currently spreading on ALL social media platforms, setting the stage for all out war between Ethiopia & Eritrea:
www.dair-institute.org/blog/tigray-...
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I will never forget the genocidal mania among the Ethiopian intelligentsia. It was a popular genocide, with your “progressive” diaspora falling over themselves to deny and justify it. The least we can do is raise awareness about what has happened and what is about to happen.
April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I will never forget the genocidal mania among the Ethiopian intelligentsia. It was a popular genocide, with your “progressive” diaspora falling over themselves to deny and justify it. The least we can do is raise awareness about what has happened and what is about to happen.
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and the longest continuous internet shutdown ever recorded & moderating genocidal content targeting your people.
One of the moderators saw his cousin being murdered because that was a video routed to him. He wasn’t even allowed to take a short mental health break.
www.noemamag.com/the-human-co...
One of the moderators saw his cousin being murdered because that was a video routed to him. He wasn’t even allowed to take a short mental health break.
www.noemamag.com/the-human-co...
The Human Cost Of Our AI-Driven Future | NOEMA
Behind AI’s rapid advance and our sanitized feeds, an invisible global workforce endures unimaginable trauma.
www.noemamag.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
and the longest continuous internet shutdown ever recorded & moderating genocidal content targeting your people.
One of the moderators saw his cousin being murdered because that was a video routed to him. He wasn’t even allowed to take a short mental health break.
www.noemamag.com/the-human-co...
One of the moderators saw his cousin being murdered because that was a video routed to him. He wasn’t even allowed to take a short mental health break.
www.noemamag.com/the-human-co...
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We collaborated with content moderators like Fasica to understand the horrific working conditions of moderators. Imagine your family going through one of the worst sieges in recorded history with nothing going in & out for 2 years,
data-workers.org/fasica/
data-workers.org/fasica/
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April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We collaborated with content moderators like Fasica to understand the horrific working conditions of moderators. Imagine your family going through one of the worst sieges in recorded history with nothing going in & out for 2 years,
data-workers.org/fasica/
data-workers.org/fasica/
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all social media is 4chan in these languages & contexts.
We've spent 3 years documenting these failures. We had no language technology to do this–not even the equivalent of a spell checker. So we partnered with Lesan founded by Asmelash Teka to create those tools.
restofworld.org/2023/3-minut...
We've spent 3 years documenting these failures. We had no language technology to do this–not even the equivalent of a spell checker. So we partnered with Lesan founded by Asmelash Teka to create those tools.
restofworld.org/2023/3-minut...
The AI startup outperforming Google Translate in Ethiopian languages
"Chatbots like ChatGPT are utterly broken or useless for these languages."
restofworld.org
April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
all social media is 4chan in these languages & contexts.
We've spent 3 years documenting these failures. We had no language technology to do this–not even the equivalent of a spell checker. So we partnered with Lesan founded by Asmelash Teka to create those tools.
restofworld.org/2023/3-minut...
We've spent 3 years documenting these failures. We had no language technology to do this–not even the equivalent of a spell checker. So we partnered with Lesan founded by Asmelash Teka to create those tools.
restofworld.org/2023/3-minut...
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The VP who sent an “anonymous” letter to HR telling me to retract my paper & setting the stage for my firing commented that plenty of work was being done in that arena. But contrary to his claims & Yann LeCun’s lies saying that “95% of hate speech on Facebook is removed by ‘AI’,”
April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The VP who sent an “anonymous” letter to HR telling me to retract my paper & setting the stage for my firing commented that plenty of work was being done in that arena. But contrary to his claims & Yann LeCun’s lies saying that “95% of hate speech on Facebook is removed by ‘AI’,”
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I told people @ Google about this & asked them to build language technology & have human moderation, in so-called "under-resourced languages” like Tigrinya. Even though we were at Google, any concerns sent to YouTube went into a void never to even be acknowledged.
restofworld.org/2021/why-fac...
restofworld.org/2021/why-fac...
Why Facebook keeps failing in Ethiopia
Leaked documents show the company can't keep up with the volume of hate speech on the platform, which is leading to real-world violence.
restofworld.org
April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I told people @ Google about this & asked them to build language technology & have human moderation, in so-called "under-resourced languages” like Tigrinya. Even though we were at Google, any concerns sent to YouTube went into a void never to even be acknowledged.
restofworld.org/2021/why-fac...
restofworld.org/2021/why-fac...
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Unlike Tigrayans in the diaspora whose sisters were being raped & parents murdered, I didn’t know what was happening on the ground & who to believe. But I did see the genocidal speech targeting them on social media, particularly from Eritreans, in Tigrinya.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
In Plain Sight: 2nd Edition: Seeking justice for sexual…
"A searing, distressing and graphic account of probably…
www.goodreads.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Unlike Tigrayans in the diaspora whose sisters were being raped & parents murdered, I didn’t know what was happening on the ground & who to believe. But I did see the genocidal speech targeting them on social media, particularly from Eritreans, in Tigrinya.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
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🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making.
When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵
english.elpais.com/internationa...
When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵
english.elpais.com/internationa...
Ethiopia’s forgotten war is the deadliest of the 21st century, with around 600,000 civilian deaths
Estimates by European institutions and academics say over half a million non-combatants have died during the Tigray conflict as a result of a government blockade that kept out humanitarian aid
english.elpais.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making.
When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵
english.elpais.com/internationa...
When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵
english.elpais.com/internationa...
Our paper for ACM CHI 2025 is out, I'm super proud to collaborate with multidisciplinary scholars and researchers assessing social media's role in spreading genocidal content during the Tigray war.
www.dair-institute.org/tigray-genoc...
www.dair-institute.org/tigray-genoc...
Tigray Genocide
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
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April 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Our paper for ACM CHI 2025 is out, I'm super proud to collaborate with multidisciplinary scholars and researchers assessing social media's role in spreading genocidal content during the Tigray war.
www.dair-institute.org/tigray-genoc...
www.dair-institute.org/tigray-genoc...
Imagine that! #Teachers #Education #Students #the future #Technology #modernsoulutions #Peopleover processes
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Possible Futures: A Future of Thriving Students and Teachers
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April 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Imagine that! #Teachers #Education #Students #the future #Technology #modernsoulutions #Peopleover processes
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www.dair-institute.org/blog/a-futur...
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February 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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And who they didn't like
February 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
And who they didn't like
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Golden hour, Pacific time.
February 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Golden hour, Pacific time.
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The sun bows low in crimson grace, kissing waves in soft embrace. Shadows dance on golden shore, whispering tales of days before. The ocean hums a lullaby, as stars awaken in the sky. Night arrives on painted seas, carried home by the twilight’s breeze.
February 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The sun bows low in crimson grace, kissing waves in soft embrace. Shadows dance on golden shore, whispering tales of days before. The ocean hums a lullaby, as stars awaken in the sky. Night arrives on painted seas, carried home by the twilight’s breeze.