Humans in the Loop, Not Just the Dataset
When Meta and other tech giants scale back content moderation, the gap isn’t just technical—it’s societal. Civil society organizations (CSOs), not corporations, are increasingly on the frontlines of monitoring online extremism. But they’re often armed with clunky tools, academic prototypes, or opaque black-box models. A new initiative—highlighted in Civil Society in the Loop—challenges this status quo by co-designing a Telegram monitoring tool that embeds human feedback directly into its LLM-assisted classification system. The twist? It invites civil society into the machine learning loop, not just the results screen. ...