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This month we’ve added a new “Expert’s Corner” feature starting with an interview with our own Kyle Dent, who recently joined Checkstep. He answers questions about AI ethics and some of the challenges of content moderation. AI Ethics FAQ with Kyle Dent If you would like to catch up on other thought leadership pieces by…

Checkstep interviews expert in online community building Todd Nilson leads transformational technology projects for major brands and organizations. He specializes in online communities, digital workplaces, social listening analysis, competitive intelligence, game thinking, employer branding, and virtual collaboration. Todd has managed teams and engagements with national and global consultancy firms specialized in online communities and the…

Wondering what all the fuss is around the Facebook Papers? Get the lowdown here. A large trove of recently leaked documents from Meta/Facebook promises to keep the social platform in the news, and in hot water, for some time to come. While other recent “Paper” investigations (think Panama and Paradise) have revealed fraud, tax evasion,…

This month we were very happy to sit down with one of the brains behind Checkstep who is also a recognized talent among European academics. She is the co-head of research at Checkstep and also an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen. She currently holds a prestigious DFF Sapere Aude Research Leader fellowship on ‘Learning to…

“The efforts to downplay and deny what happened are an attempt to brazenly recast reality itself.” After twelve months of hard work debunking hundreds of misleading and false claims, the good folks at Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact take a moment out of their normal schedule to award the Lie of the Year, and for 2021 that dubious…

This month’s expert is Checkstep’s CEO and Co-Founder Guillaume Bouchard. After exiting his previous company, Bloomsbury AI to Facebook, he’s on a mission to better prepare online platforms against all types of online harm. He has a PhD in applied mathematics and machine learning from INRIA, France. 12 years of scientific research experience at Xerox…

Early stage startup gets funding for R&D effort to develop advanced content moderation technology We’re thrilled to announce that Checkstep recently closed a $1.8m seed funding round to further develop our advanced AI product offering contextual content moderation. The round was carefully selected to be diverse, international, and with a significant added value to our business. Influential personalities…

Preslav Nakov has established himself as one of the leading experts on the use of AI against propaganda and disinformation. He has been very influential in the field of natural language processing and text mining, publishing hundreds of peer reviewed research papers. He spoke to us about his work dealing with the ongoing problem of…

The birth of the digital public sphere This article is contributed by Ahmed Medien. Online forums and social marketplaces have become a large part of the internet in the past 20 years since the early bulletin boards on the internet and AOL chat rooms. Today, users moved primarily to social platforms, platforms that host user-generated content. These…

 In 1993 The United Nations declared May 3 as World Press Freedom Day recognizing that a free press is critical to a healthy, functioning democracy. According to the UN, media freedom and individual access to information is key to empowering people with control over their own lives. It seems the global population mostly believes it…