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EVENT

RIGHTSCON 2025

 
WHEN: 24-27 February, 2025
WHERE: Taipei, Taiwan
WEBSITE: rightscon.org
 
Reach out to set a time to meet or come find us at one of the following sessions:
 
Towards Principles on Accountability and Transparency in Social Media Monetization
Feb 24 | 11:30-3pm | Room 201C
Social media companies are deciding over the distribution of over $20 billion a year - and we bet you have no idea where this money is going or how these decisions are being made. It's high time we start talking about the governance of social media monetization.
Join us for a Day 0 consultation to help define what a principled approach to monetization governance should entail - and flesh out key transparency and accountability asks
From Content to Payment: How Social Media Companies are Financially Subsidizing Disinformation
Feb 25 | 9am | South Lobby
Did you know that over 6 million social media accounts are generating revenue directly from platforms?
Social media companies process millions of fund transfers worth billions every month - with no oversight or accountability.
The very same algorithms and classifiers that Mark Zuckerberg called out for making too many mistakes are being used to decide who cashes in and how much. What could possibly go wrong?! I promise to make it worth you getting out of bed to find out!
Behind the Apps: Transparency Regarding Authority Requests
Feb 26 | 10:15am | Room 101D
Ever looked into platforms' disclosure of government requests? What if we told you that those are massively under-reported?Join us for a workshop hosted by R3D to explore how platforms are under-reporting government requests and discuss strategies on how to expose the scale of this under-reporting.
The Price of Hate: Evaluating the Economic Impact of Online Hate Speech on Digital Platforms
Feb 27 | 10:15am | Room 401
Did you know that Meta took in $ 160.6 billion in ad revenue in 2024. Facebook alone is believed to have generated over $ 100 billion (a more than 30% increase since 2023).
So long as platforms keep experiencing double digit revenue growth, and reporting profit in the $ billions, can we really expect them to care about what goes on on their
platform?
Can we quantify the financial impact of hate and disinformation?  And how do we go about increasing the cost to their bottom line?
Join us for this interactive workshop hosted by Shhor AI.
Ad-vantage Points: Digital Ad Transparency through the Lens of Asia's Trends and Europe's Rules
Feb 27 | 12:45pm | Room 101B
Social media has been a game changer for the advertising industry - making it easier than ever to target you. But it's not just brands that are taking advantage of it - and paid distribution is creating a whole new array of challenges.
As Europe is leading the charge to regulate the space - platforms are inconsistently rolling out tools and solutions (or resisting doing so) in various contexts, with critical (and at times unintended) consequences.
Join us for a thought provoking panel, hosted by Reset Tech.
 
 

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