Responsible Tech Mixer Recap: Taskforce For a Trustworthy Future Web
(June 28, 2023, New York, NY) All Tech Is Human is thrilled to release its panel discussion to celebrate the release of Task Force For a Trustworthy Future Web featuring Yoel Roth, Maya Wiley, Mike Masnick, and Kat Duffy.
All Tech Is Human celebrated the release of Atlantic Council's DFR Lab's Task Force For a Trustworthy Future Web with a panel discussion featuring Yoel Roth, Maya Wiley, MIke Masnick, and Kat Duffy on Monday, June 26, at Betaworks in New York City as part of its ongoing Responsible Tech Mixer Speaker Series.
The internet is changing. Legacy media platforms are fracturing as the economic environment has led to layoffs. Audience preferences about where they spend time and how they interact are changing. In the face of an uncertain internet future, Atlantic Council’s Task Force For a Trustworthy Future Web provides comprehensive research about the ways we can co-create a healthier internet. This panel discussion convenes key leaders and report contributors to ask: How can we chart a roadmap for future online ecosystems to protect users’ rights, support innovation, and center trust and safety principles?
“One of the things that we focus on in this Task Force report is that we have to assume that what happens offline will happen online, period. It is how things are and online spaces are not built to accommodate that. The choices that you make in building technologies, when you do not consider the inequities in the society in which that technology is being deployed, you are choosing to scale malignancy.” Kat Duffy said.
The report and panel provide a comprehensive overview about the existing internet ecosystem alongside key insights and recommendations for a large group of stakeholders about how to build a more safe, inclusive, and trustworthy internet.
“Every recommendation is a Civil Rights recommendation,” Maya Wiley said. “So I hope when you read the report…look at it with that lens and say, why did Maya say that?”
About the panelists
Maya Wiley
Maya Wiley is a nationally respected civil rights attorney and activist who has dedicated her life to the fights for justice, equality, and fairness.
Wiley’s father was a leader in the civil rights and economic justice movements, and she has been a leader inside and outside government. Serving as the first Black woman counsel to the mayor of New York City, she helped deliver on civil and immigrant rights. During her tenure, the city also saw an expansion of minority/women-owned business enterprises contracts. Following her time at City Hall, Wiley moved to academia as a faculty member and senior vice president for social justice at the New School University. While there, she chaired the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB). As chair, she led the release of the “hold” on proceedings against Daniel Pantaleo whose illegal chokehold killed Eric Garner. That move led to the CCRB’s successful administrative prosecution of Pantaleo that resulted in his firing. Wiley’s tenure at the CCRB was marked by increased case closure rates, increased transparency, and an intense focus on public outreach so that potential victims of police abuse were aware of ways to seek the board’s assistance. In 2021, Wiley was a candidate for New York City mayor.
Yoel Roth
Yoel Roth is currently a Technology Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley, and a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Roth's research is focused on how to address collective security challenges on distributed and decentralized social media platforms. He's also working on a book project about the field of trust and safety, and how technology companies navigate complex policy and governance challenges.
At Twitter, Roth was the Head of Trust & Safety, leading Twitter’s content moderation, integrity, and platform security efforts — including policy development, threat investigation, product, design, research, and operations.
Before joining Twitter, Roth received his PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Roth's research and teaching examined the technical, policy, business, and cultural dynamics of social networking and dating apps at the dawn of the “App Store” age.
Mike Masnick
Mike Masnick is the founder and CEO of Floor64 and editor of the Techdirt blog.
Kat Duffy
Kat Duffy is a visiting senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab the Director of the Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web. She advises companies, governments, and international nongovernmental organizations on building socially responsible business practices within the technology sector, developing strategies to align emerging technologies with democratic norms and human rights, and implementing best practices for civil-society engagement in the tech and human-rights space.
📸 Scenes from June’s Responsible Tech Mixer
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