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Content Moderators’ Working Conditions: Understanding the Human Cost

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15 April 2025 22h01

We collaborated with content moderators like @Fasica2025 to understand the horrific working conditions of moderators. Imagine your family going through one of the worst sieges in recorded history with nothing going in & out for 2 years,

Content Moderation Ethics: Mental Health Crisis Amid Genocide

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15 April 2025 22h01

and the longest continuous internet shutdown ever recorded & moderating genocidal content targeting your people. One moderator saw his cousin being murdered in a video routed to him. He wasn’t even allowed to take a short mental health break.

Google’s Content Moderation Gap in Under-resourced Languages

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15 April 2025 22h01

I told people @ Google about this & asked them to build language technology & have human moderation, in so-called "under-resourced languages” like Tigrinya. Although we were at Google, concerns sent to YouTube went into a void never to be acknowledged.

VP’s Anonymous Letter and AI Hate Speech Moderation Claims

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15 April 2025 22h01

The VP who sent an “anonymous” letter to HR telling me to retract my paper & setting the stage for my firing commented that plenty of work was being done in that arena. But contrary to his claims & Yann LeCun’s lies saying “95% of hate speech on Facebook is removed by ‘AI’,”

DAIR Research on Tigray Genocide and AI Ethics Concerns

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15 April 2025 22h01

Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making. When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google.

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Google Launches AI-Powered Weather Forecasts Across Africa

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15 April 2025 20h30

AI-powered weather forecasts are now on Google Search, bringing high quality forecasts to people across Africa. AI models are able to perform much better than traditional weather forecasts when ground based weather data is sparse, which it is across Africa (North America has 291