6.2024
Chika: How to Be Soft
In this relaunch of the Salty’s Cover Stars series, Chika sits down with Black, queer psychologist (and research director of the Algorithmic Bias project!), Shakira Smith, to talk about all things mental health, the internet, and radical vulnerability on the route to healing.
1.2023
Oversight Board overturns Meta's original decisions in the "Gender identity and nudity" cases
The Oversight Board has overturned Meta’s original decisions to remove two Instagram posts depicting transgender and non-binary people with bare chests. It also recommends that Meta change its Adult Nudity and Sexual Activity Community Standard so that it is governed by clear criteria that respect international human rights standards.
4.13.2022
Education as Community Capital: Documenting Discrimination on Social Media Platforms with Shakira Smith, PhD
The Brown University LGBTQ Center Queer Legacy Series and Feminists@Brown, in Collaboration with Salty, is hosting Shakira Smith, PhD for a discussion on social media censorship and the margins of digital spaces, traditional research approaches as master’s tools, and leveraging research education for accessible, community benefit. Dr. Smith will also share about her academic trajectory and curating career outside of hegemonic norms.
9.22.2021
Did you know that social media algorithms adversely affect queer people, women, BIPOCs, people with disabilities, sex workers and plus size people? It does, and we’ve got the data to back it up.
https://saltyworld.net/product/exclusive-report-censorship-of-marginalized-communities-on-instagram-2021-pdf-download/
9.21.2021
Meet Salty’s Algorithmic Bias Research Collective
https://saltyworld.net/saltyalgorithmicbiasresearchcollective/
6.21.2021
Online event: Discrimination by moderation
https://us.boell.org/en/discrimination-moderation
June 21, 2021
Panel discussion with:
Christina Dinar, Deputy Director at the Centre for Internet and Human Rights, expert on anti-discrimination strategies online
Brandeis Marshall, Data scientist and Full Professor of Computer Science at Spelman College, Black education activist for Black women thriving in data and tech careers
Tiemo Wölken, Member of the European Parliament (Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats), shadow rapporteur for the opinion of the Legal Affairs Committee on the Digital Services Act
Shakira Smith, Research Director at Salty Algorithmic Bias Collective, scholar-practitioner-advocate and dual-PhD candidate at Indiana University
Moderator: Jennifer Baker, independent journalist reporting on tech policy & digital rights
5.2.2019
Shakira Smith awarded prestigious President’s Diversity Dissertation Fellowship
https://blogs.iu.edu/iusph/2019/05/02/shakira-smith-awarded-prestigious-presidents-diversity-dissertation-fellowship/
