History

The history of the Social Data Science Alliance

The Social Data Science Alliance is an initiative started by members of the Social Media Governance Project at the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI).

Some key past reports of this GPAI project are linked below.

2024

  • Social Media Governance project: Summary of work in 2024 (November 2024) – Read here
  • Crowdsourcing annotations for harmful content classifiers:
    An update from GPAI’s pilot project on political hate speech in India (November 2024) – Read here
  • How the DSA can enable a public science of digital platform social impacts (Policy Brief) – Read here

2023

  • Social Media Governance project: Summary of work in 2023 (October 2023) – Read here
  • Crowdsourcing the curation of the training set for harmful content classifiers used in social media:
    A pilot study on political hate speech in India (November 2023) – Read here
  • State-of-the-art Foundation AI Models Should be Accompanied by
    Detection Mechanisms as a Condition of Public Release
    (July 2023) – Read here

2022

  • Transparency mechanisms for social media recommender algorithms: From proposals to action (November 2022) – Read here

2021

  • Responsible AI for social media governance:
    A proposed collaborative method for studying the effects of social media recommender systems on users (November 2021) – Read here