Digital Platforms and Societal Harms
- In June 2023, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called for effective action to end hate speech.
- In July 2023, the World Economic Forum released its Chief Risk Officers Outlook, ranking misinformation and disinformation as a top 10 external risk, highly likely to have a severe impact on organizations by the end of 2023.
- In August 2023, the Anti-Defamation League and the Tech Transparency Project released findings from two studies that concluded that Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter recommended explicitly anti-Semitic content to test personas of different ages and genders who searched for or looked at conspiracy theories and other topics.
In October 2023, we come together as a community to address these rising issues.
Digital Platforms and Societal Harms
2 and 3 October 2023
American University, Washington, D.C.,
Keynote panels can also be joined online
We invite you to join us at Digital Platforms and Societal Harms, taking place 2 and 3 October at American University in Washington, D.C. and with keynote panels also available in hybrid mode to enable online attendance.
Featuring international speakers with backgrounds in public policy, government, artificial intelligence, and other computing technologies, this event will focus on solutions to the challenges of hate speech, extremism, exploitation, misinformation and disinformation on digital platforms.
As a member of IEEE SSIT you are invited to participate in this forum which we are proud to support. As an IEEE member you also qualify for special pricing. For our chapter leaders, we invite you to consider hosting an in-person meeting to watch one of the keynote panels online together and then discuss it with your local members and wider community – more information is available online.
Register today to ensure you are part of the solution as we shape the future of policy and science in stopping societal harm via digital platforms.
Sincerely,
Luis Kun, Ph.D., FAIMBE, Life Fellow IEEE, FIAMBE, FIUPESM
President, IEEE Society on Social implications of Technology (SSIT) 2023-24
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