🎉✨ Huge congrats to our community researcher Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan for being shortlisted for the True Story Award, one of the most prestigious honors in narrative journalism! Her brilliant piece on content moderation, written for Data Workers’ Inquiry, stood out among over 1000 submissions from around the world, placing in the top 3%.
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Content moderation - True Story Award
The Global Reporter Prize in Bern, Switzerland
🚨 Attention Berlin! Next Monday, June 30th, I am thrilled to welcome @Alex Hanna to the [@Weizenbaum_Institut](
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 ) for a conversation about her book, THE AI CON (co-authored with Prof. Emily M. Bender). Don't miss it! Register here to attend:
Book presentation "THE AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want"
Mon, June 30, 2025
Meta is pouring $15 billion into Scale AI for a near-controlling stake. This move puts immense power into the hands of one of the world’s largest tech giants. It is a quiet but colossal deal to secure dominance over the data pipelines behind Meta's AI ambitions.
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Meta's $15 Billion Scale Deal Could Leave Gig Workers Behind
Scale AI built its business on the labor of gig workers. But those workers likely won't benefit from their new deal with Meta.
📢NEW INQUIRY‼️ Data workers see the internet’s worst, so the rest of us don’t have to. Former content moderator and clinical psychologist, Kauna Malgwi, collaborated with DWI to design a mental health plan tailored to data workers' needs:
Data Workers' Inquiry
A Mental Health Intervention for Data Workers, by Kauna Ibrahim Malgwi
A scalable mental health intervention designed for data workers, grounded in hands‑on insight and evidence‑based practice from my dual perspect...
📢We're proud to support the launch of the Data Labelers Association of Kenya with an online event! Join us to meet the workers and support their struggle. 📅February 13 ⏰8pm Kenya/ 6pm EU/ 12pm ET ✅Watch and submit your questions to the speakers:
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📢 This Thursday, I’ll be speaking at the European Parliament alongside MEP @npub1krnx...wkxm and Prof. @npub1ymu2...almj. We’ll be joined by data workers from 🇪🇸🇨🇴🇮🇹🇺🇸🇸🇾 to discuss the labor behind AI and what worker-centric regulation could look like. 🎥 Watch live, 2:30pm CET: https://www.youtube.com/live/U4692ygg6l4 image