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Dhanaraj Thakur
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Research Director, Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org

Board Member: #shepersisted and the Baltimore Digital Equity Coalition.
Member: Global Majority Research Committee (Trust and Safety Foundation).
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Advocating with Evidence: Lessons for Tech Researchers in Civil Society.
Join us on November 13 for an online discussion featuring @alicetiara.bsky.social @mkgerchick.bsky.social @jordanaut.bsky.social and me.

Organized by @cdt.org @datasociety.bsky.social @aclu.org

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Advocating with Evidence: Lessons for Tech Researchers in Civil Society November 13, 2025, 10-11am ET online Civil society is struggling to address how technology and the tech industry contribute to eroding democracy, amplifying bias, and accelerating hateful ideologies. Timely, accessible findings are necessary to inform policy and advocacy, but it can be challenging to produce research that is simultaneously rigorous and high-impact. This panel brings together research experts and practitioners who bridge policy and academia to advance civil rights and challenge tech injustice. Drawing on their experience as research leaders, the panelists will discuss how to conduct effective research on the harms of digital technologies and for developing solutions that center marginalized and vulnerable communities.
October 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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New publication alert: "Intersectionality and the problems of using artificial intelligence to address online gender-based violence and gendered disinformation"

This is a chapter in the "Routledge Handbook of Social Media, Law and Society" edited by @kimbarker.bsky.social and Prof. Olga Jurasz.
Cover image for the book "Routledge Handbook of Social Media, Law and Society" Social media companies use automated content moderation techniques to address harmful content on their platforms such as online gender-based violence and gendered mis- and disinformation. While these platforms may recognize that it is important to assess users based on different identities, they do not acknowledge the reality of intersectionality, nor the ways in which their use of AI (artificial intelligence) to target users and recommend content based on inferences about users can propagate multiple forms of oppression. Thus, their AI-driven solutions and interventions may in fact exacerbate the problem. The chapter examines this problem and offers recommendations for how social media companies can incorporate an intersectional lens into their automated content moderation systems and how policymakers can support that approach.
October 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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#TechPromCDT is back this October! It’s a night of connection, conversation, and celebration of 30+ years of tech policy. Can’t wait to see this incredible community come together again.
Oct 23 | 📍 The LINE DC
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October 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Please join us (September 29) for Mainstreaming Trust and Safety in Online Games. Organized by @cdt.org, NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, and @csint-au.bsky.social

Register for the livestream here: www.eventbrite.com/e/mainstream...

#gaming #trustandsafety
Poster for the conference Mainstreaming Trust and Safety in Online Games
September 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Really looking forward to attending the Trust and Safety Research Conference next week. I will be presenting research we did at @cdt.org on how content moderation (including the use of large language models) work in low-resource languages in the Majority World.

#TSRConf #contentmoderation #LLMs
Speaker poster with an image of Dhanaraj Thakur for the Trust and Safety Research Conference (September 25-26, 2025).
September 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Please join us! A webinar in collaboration between @globalvoices.org Voices and the @cdt.org with @ameriqo.bsky.social, Emma Vadillo Quesada, Nicaela Leon Coico, and Marco Antonio Martínez; organized by Eddie Avila.

August 14, 2025, at 11 am EDT/3pm UTC/5pm CET

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LIVE on August 14: Digital spaces for the Quechua language: safety and inclusion online The session will be live streamed on YouTube and available on Zoom for those that need interpretation
August 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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I will be at the #IGF2025 next week discussing some of our recent research at @cdt.org on LLMs and content moderation in low resource languages and how to address CSEA on livestreaming platforms.
Poster describing sessions the poster will be attending at the IGF 2025: Generative AI & LLMs in Content Moderation: Rights & Risks June 24, 16:00 CEST Protecting Children from Online Sexual Exploitation including livestreaming spaces June 25, 10:45 CEST
June 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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It was great to participate and speak this week at the Politics and Gender Conference at Rutgers university, organized by
@politicsgenderj.bsky.social

I joined Prof. Müge Finkel who presented our paper on "Intersectionality and Gender Based Online Hate Speech in 2024 US Congressional Elections."
Lanyard from the Politics and Gender conference, Rutgers 2025.
May 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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1st place photo from this year's Rest of World contest on the impacts of technology:
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#surveillance #immigration #facialrecognition
Copied media URL: https://restofworld.org/2025/tech-photography-contest-winners/#/grace-yoon "U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials collect facial scans from migrants crossing into the country from the U.S.-Mexico border as part of processing procedures'
April 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM