Conference For Truth And Trust Online (TTO) 2022

Wed Oct 12 2022 at 08:30 am to Fri Oct 14 2022 at 05:30 pm

George Sherman Union | Boston

Truth and Trust Online
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Conference For Truth And Trust Online (TTO) 2022 The annual Conference for Truth and Trust Online facilitates collaboration between practitioners, technologists, academics, and platforms.
About this Event

This year's Conference for Truth and Trust Online (TTO) will be held in-person at Boston University as well as online on October 13-14, 2022. Pre-conference workshops will be held online, on October 12, 2022.

For the latest updates, visit www.truthandtrustonline.com.


TTO 2022 Program

Truth and trust online is pleased to bring you an exciting program of invited and contributed talks. Please visit the TTO program page for the listed workshops, talks, and panels.

Keynote speakers
#HashtagActivism – Networks of Race and Gender Justice

TTO 2022 is excited to announce that the authors of #HashtagActivism – Networks of Race and Gender Justice. Sarah J. Jackson (University of Pennsylvania), Moya Bailey (Northwestern University), and Brooke Foucault Welles (Northeastern University) will be presenting a keynote at TTO 2022.

A winner of the 2020 McGannon Book Award, #HashtagActivism has received wide-ranging praise for its “well-researched, nuanced” examination of the role of Twitter as a central platform for marginalized groups – including Black Americans, women, and transgender people – to organize sociopolitical action. The book has also been noted for its “methodological sophistication and theoretical nuance”, and its “ground-breaking” examination of how social media has shaped US politics in recent years.


Event Photos

Sarah J. Jackson (center), Moya Bailey (left), and Brooke Foucault Welles (right), authors of #HashtagActivism – Networks of Race and Gender Justice. Photo Credit: Northeastern University.


Speakers

Sarah J. Jackson (University of Pennsylvania) is Presidential Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work focuses on the use of media, journalism, and technology by marginalized groups – with a particular focus on the impact of Black, feminist, and activist online spaces on US politics and society.

Moya Bailey (Northwestern University) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Her research examines the use of digital media by marginalized groups as a means of promoting social justice. Bailey’s work also investigates representations of race, gender, and sexuality in media and medicine.

Brooke Foucault Welles (Northeastern University) is an associate professor and interim chair of the department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. Her work investigates power and amplification in online social networks, leveraging an interdisciplinary blend of network science and social science theory to highlight how these networks can be used to mitigate or aggravate marginalization.


Pre-Conference Workshops
  • When: October 12th, 2022
  • Where: Online

Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation

Presenter: Rob Hawkins (Founder of Reveddit.com)

Several online forums, including Facebook and Reddit, show users their removed content as if it is not removed. This workshop will seek to answer questions such as: What happens when content is removed without notifying the user? What happens when you show users their secretly removed content? How many people are impacted by shadow moderation? Rob Hawkins reviews the implications of this style of moderation using real world examples.


Tracking Exposed: a tool for TikTok algorithmic audits and shadow-ban detection

Presenter: Salvatore Romano (Head of Research, Tracking Exposed)

TikTok Tracking Exposed is a free (and open) software to monitor TikTok's recommendation algorithm behavior and personalization patterns.

In this tutorial, we'll collect data and then display our toolchain for data analysts (based on Gephi and Python Notebook) or with a more straightforward tool such as Excel.

TikTok Tracking Exposed is under the umbrella project https://tracking.exposed.


Talks | AMA ("Ask Me Anything")

Sophia Smith Galer, Senior News Reporter, Vice World News

What do you get when medical manufacturers still call speculums "virgin size", when YouTube pickup artists try to give tips on "how to turn a girl’s no into a yes", when Amazon classes dilators that help women fix psychosexual disorders as "sex toys"?

What do you get when campaign groups spreading inaccurate information about the body are allowed to speak at schools, or when "fixers" for "hymen repair doctors" are allowed to get hundreds of thousands of YouTube and TikTok followers?

You get a sex misinformation crisis.

Sophia Smith Galer explores some of the research she gathered for her book Losing It: Sex Education for the 21st Century. Smith Galer not only charts a worldwide sex misinformation crisis but – crucially – looks at the problem-solvers and solutions that could fix this crisis, and also the obstacles of such solutions. Obstacles include internet censorship, out of control engagement-optimisation tools, and a lingering taboo around the "horizontal tango."


Panels

Examining the spread of gendered health misinformation; panel led by Jenna Sherman, Digital Health Lab Program Manager, Meedan.

General approach: Women, trans, and nonbinary people experience the impacts of health misinformation in unique and disproportionate ways. With less access to quality healthcare, these individuals often turn to harmful online information ecosystems, which can lead to high risk health outcomes.

For example, people seeking out information online about infant feeding may be led to create homemade baby formula that can stunt growth and development of their children. People seeking out information online about coping with chest dysphoria may be led to unsafely bind which can cause permanent damage to chest tissue, lungs, and ribs. And people seeking out information about abortion access may be led to use herbs that can cause problems from seizure to septic shock.

While social media platforms are still working on building out their health misinformation policies, the stakes for leaving up harmful content online is growing more urgent as more people turn to the internet for answers to gendered health questions.

In this panel, experts in medicine, health misinformation, online ecosystems, and education speak to the unique challenges of unregulated gendered health misinformation online, its impacts, and potential solutions.

Accepted Talks
  • When: October 13th and 14th, 2022
  • Where: George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA

Paper presentations

Fact-checking multidimensional statistic claims in French, Oana Balalau, Simon Ebel, Théo Galizzi, Ioana Manolescu, Quentin Massonnat, Antoine Deiana, Emilie Gautreau, Antoine Krempf, Thomas Pointillon, Gérald Roux, and Joanna Yakin.

ToxEx: Zero and few-shot natural language explanations for toxicity detection, Alexander Gaskell, Marina Fomicheva, and Lucia Specia.

"Gettr-ing" user insights from the social network Gettr, Filipo Sharevski, Amy Devine, Emma Pieroni, and Peter Jachim.

The role of online attention in the supply of disinformation in Wikipedia, Anis Elebiary and Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia.

YouTube COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter: Platform interactions and moderation blind spots, David Axelrod, Brian Harper, and John Paolillo.


Technical Talks

Is personalised content moderation a Good Idea? Bertie Vidgen and Paul Röttger.

vera.ai - Verification assisted by Artificial Intelligence, Kalina Bontcheva, Symeon Papadopoulos, et al.

The Data Access and Transparency (DATA) Index: Evaluating transparency in online social platforms, Shayne Longpre, Cameron Hickey, Manoel Ribeiro, and Deb Roy.

Identification and characterization of misinformation superspreaders on social media, Matthew DeVerna, Rachith Aiyappa, Diogo Pacheco, John Bryden, and Filippo Menczer.

The Audience Initiative: Assessing what drives trust and public value in online media, Maha Taki, Sonia Whitehead, and Alasdair Stuart.

Public reasoning towards truth and community trust: regulating online deliberative spaces for participatory AI and data governance, Willow Wong.

Designing for Trust and Truth in digital intimacy, Vaughn Hamilton, Gabriel Kaptchuk, Allison McDonald, and Elissa Redmiles.

Crowdsourced fact-checking: How is BirdWatch doing? Mohammed Saeed, Gianluca Demartini, and Paolo Papotti.


Additional panels, workshops, and community labs

Disinformation and online abuse targeted at communities of color, led by Dhanaraj Thakur, Research Director, Center for Democracy & Technology

How to operationalize trust and safety values, and create trustworthy products, led by Pushkar Mishra, Artificial Intelligence Research Engineer, Meta

Broadening the global scope of mis- and disinformation studies, led by TTO 2022 PC Chairs

Submitting papers for special- issue global mis- and disinformation research journals, led by Dr. Jo Lukito (University of Texas-Austin). Dr. Jo Lukito with the support of the TTO 2022 organizers, will offer a half-day workshop to build community around submitting papers for a special issue on Global Misinformation and Disinformation. You can learn about the special issue here: https://academic.oup.com/ijpor/pages/special-issue-call-for-papers

Early bird registrations (ends Sept 15th)
20% discount is automatically applied to all ticket tiers during early-bird registrations
  • Corporate tickets - $240
  • Startups, Academia tickets - $120
  • Non-profits tickets - $80
  • Undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students tickets - $40
  • TTO 2022 Digital Pass - $40
Standard registrations
In-person registrations end October 13th
  • Corporate tickets - $300
  • Startups, Academia tickets - $150
  • Non-profits tickets - $100
  • Undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students tickets - $50
  • TTO 2022 Digital Pass - $50
Become a Sponsor (TTO 2022)

Truth and Trust Online conferences offer expert panels, workshops, paper presentations and posters, and networking events with some of the most innovative minds in the trust and safety online industry and the study of misinformation online, including faculty members and professors, a wide spectrum of civil society organizations, big platforms policy and engineers managers, entrepreneurs and the media industry.

Our conferences offer our sponsors, and supporters space and opportunities to connect with the credibility community on a virtual platform with additional offerings such as:

  • Being a part of the deeper discussion
  • Contribution to programming and sessions
  • Clear, focused networking times and options
  • Recruitment sessions

To inquire about our sponsorship packages and other ways to support Truth and Trust Online and TTO 2022, send an email to [email protected].


Financial support for non-profit employees and students

Students, postdoctoral researchers as well as local non-profits and members of grassroots movements in the Boston area may receive a fee ticket waiver.

  • To apply for this ticket fee waiver, fill out your information in this . We will reply to applicants on a rolling basis until all tickets are sold out.
Contact Us

For all information regarding TTO, for questions, comments and requests regarding the programme, sponsorships and registrations, write us an email to [email protected].



About TTO

Now in its fourth year, Conference on Truth and Trust Online acts as an interdisciplinary space aimed at improving the truthfulness and trustworthiness of online communications. TTO is an annual forum for academia, industry, non-profit organisations, and other stakeholders to discuss the problems facing (social) media platforms and technical solutions to understand and address them.

The Conference for Truth and Trust Online (TTO) is supported by Hacks/Hackers, a US-registered 501(c)(3).


About Hacks/Hackers

Hacks/Hackers is an international grassroots community of journalists, researchers, technologists, and others who collaborate to build credible media. Starting with a small personal donation in 2017, MisinfoCon has received additional support from Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla Foundation, Stanford University, and others. Local group activities currently include talks, events, hackathons and demo days.

Hacks/Hackers is the organizer of the MisinfoCon global summit on misinformation convened at MIT (2017), in London (2017-2019), in Kyiv (2018), in Washington, D.C. (2018, 2020), at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia (2022), online in partnership with MozFest in 2022, MisinfoCon Brasil in partnership with Agência Lupa (2022) and the Misinformation Village @ DEF CON 30 (2022).

Event Venue

George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, United States

Tickets

USD 0.00 to USD 1500.00

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