Episode 13: Moderation on Twitter & Online Communities Against Disinfo
In this episode, we speaking to Julia Mozer, EU Public Policy Manager at Twitter and Carlos Hernández-Echevarría Head of Public Policy & Institutional Development, Maldita Spain, about moderation strategies on Twitter, and how to utilise online communities to counter disinformation.
This episode was recorded as a live webinar on the 20th of October.
About our guests
Julia Mozer works as EU Public Policy Manager at Twitter, focusing primarily on hate speech and disinformation. Before joining Twitter, she worked as Policy and Communication Officer at CEJI, a Brussels-based NGO that tackles prejudice and discrimination of all kinds. In this role, she focused on hate speech, misinformation and online harms as well as on counter-speech and online safety. She developed and delivered training to NGOs, journalists and law enforcement agencies, engaged in policy discussion with social media companies and EU institutions, while managing several EU-funded projects. She also coordinated an EU-wide campaign on hate speech before the last EU elections.
Carlos Hernández-Echevarría is Head of Public Policy & Institutional Development, at Maldita Spain. Before joining Maldita.es, Carlos spent 15 years working on television, especially on laSexta. Carlos has been a reporter, correspondent, was a Fulbright scholar and has a master's degree in Elections and Political Campaign Management from Fordham University in New York. He analyses US politics in various media such as eldiario.es, Historia y Vida or El Orden Mundial. He saw Obama win the primary and Trump get sworn in, so he has seen it all.
Additional reading
Twitter Blog: Twitter’s new reporting process centers on a human-first design
Twitter Blog: Our ongoing approach to the war in Ukraine