In the aftermath of yet another racially motivated shooting that was live-streamed on social media, tech companies are facing fresh questions about their ability to effectively moderate their platforms. The Guardian’s Johana Bhuiyan recently interviewed BIDS Faculty Affiliate Hany Farid, a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, about the problem of barring unwanted content from online platforms, and whether tech companies are doing enough to fix the problem. Farid’s work includes research into robust hashing, a tool that creates a fingerprint for videos that allows platforms to find them and their copies as soon as they are uploaded. According to the article: “there is a tech solution to this uniquely tech problem. Tech companies just aren’t financially motivated to invest resources into developing it.”
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May 19, 2022 | Johana Bhuiyan | The Guardian
