This talk will delve into many topics, from memetic warfare to online harassment and from the livestreaming of terrorist attacks to influencer vlogs promoting racial hate, moderating digital content with respect to extremism is an increasingly important aspect of security practices and online safety. In this context, automated content moderation technologies are often presented as the ideal solution to our digital problems, but research and practice show crucial limitations to their applicability and success. Moreover, content moderation, as a socio-political practice, remains a highly contested particularly with respect to free speech concerns. This presentation offers an overview of the content moderation landscape in three parts, 1) mapping the contours of existing moderation practices, regulations, and debates, 2) outlining how Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can best support content moderation, and 3) detailing the complexities of content moderation through a
case example focusing on gender in extremist propaganda.

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The event is scheduled to take place on 15th of May at 4.00pm (GMT)/ 5.00pm (CET) with the participation of Dr. Ashley A. Mattheis

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Dr. Ashley A. Mattheis

Ashley A. Mattheis, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University working on the Tech Against Terrorism Europe (TATE) project. Her work brings together cultural studies, media studies, and visual rhetorical criticism, through the lens of feminist theory to explore the rhetorical and persuasive force of extremist digital cultures’ propaganda materials, gendered communicative approaches, and media circulation practices. Her areas of inquiry include the digital cultures of the Manosphere, the Far/Alt-Right, #Trad and QAnon. Her publications include: “#TradCulture: Reproducing Whiteness and Neofascism through Gendered Discourse Online,” in the Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness,” “Does the Institution have a Plan for That?: Researcher Safety and the Ethics of Institutional Responsibility,” in Researching Cybercrimes: Methodologies, Ethics, and Critical Approaches, “Disrupting the Digital Divide: Extremism’s Integration of Offline / Online Practice” in Interventionen, The Greatness of Her Position’: Comparing Identitarian and Jihadi Discourses on Women, a report for the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization, and “Shieldmaidens of Whiteness: (Alt)Maternalism and Women Recruiting for the Far/Alt-Right,” in the Journal for Deradicalization.