Update
Our conference in 2018 has led to a new initiative called the Trust & Safety Professional Association, a new, nonprofit, member-based org that will support the global community of professionals who develop and enforce principles & policies that define acceptable behavior online. Please follow them on Twitter @TSPAInfo. We’ll leave the video and photos from the COMO II up for posterity.
The COMO Summit on May 7, 2018 was a followup to the “Content Moderation And Removal At Scale Conference” held at Santa Clara Law in February 2018. The DC COMO Summit further explored the vexing challenges that Internet platforms face in moderating content online. Recent phenomena like #deepfakes, Russian election interference, and extremist content are just some of the challenges that our experts explored at COMO.
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Featured Participants
Jesse Blumenthal Manager of Technology & Innovation, Charles Koch Institute
Casey Burton Senior Corporate Counsel, Match Group
Frank Carey Machine Learning Engineer, Vimeo
Becky Foley Director of Content, TripAdvisor
Eric Goldman Director, High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara Law
Del Harvey Vice President for Trust & Safety, Twitter
Shirin Keen Associate General Counsel, Twitch
Ryan Kennedy Senior Manager & Head of Moderation, Twitch
Kevin Koehler Trust & Safety, Automattic
Tiffany Li Resident Fellow, Information Society Project at Yale Law School
Emma Llanso Director, Free Expression Project, Center for Democracy & Technology
Tim Lordan Executive Director, Internet Education Foundation
Rebecca MacKinnon Director, Ranking Digital Rights, New America's Open Technology Institute
Mike Masnick President and CEO, Techdirt
Sean McGilvray Director, Legal Affairs and Trust & Safety at Vimeo
Tal Niv Vice President of Law & Policy, GitHub
Pablo Peláez Europol Representative to the United States
David Post Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute
Nora Puckett Senior Litigation Counsel, Google
Jacob Rogers Legal Counsel, Wikimedia Foundation
Peter Stern Policy Manager for Risk, Facebook
Kaitlin Sullivan Content Policy Manager, Facebook
Dan Sutherland Associate General Counsel, National Protection and Programs Directorate, U.S Department of Homeland Security
Clara Tsao Chief Technology Officer, Interagency CVE Task Force, Department of Homeland Security
Alex Walden Counsel, Free Expression and Human Rights, Google
The Organizers Of COMO
The COMO Summit is organized by the following organizations. The organizers believe that effective content moderation practices are ones that maximize free expression and personal liberty while maintaining a civil society.
