Amira Galal
Amira Galal is a specialist in online harmful speech and its various manifestations. She works at Internews on digital rights projects covering the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, and Latin America. Amira is a former BBC journalist that transitioned to working in the humanitarian sector in Iraq, Syria, and Greece. She has brought these experiences together to adopt a holistic approach to multiregional digital rights and media development programming at Internews. She holds a Master's degree in Modern Middle East Studies from the University of Oxford and a second in International Journalism from City University, London.
Sessions
Participants will have a stronger understanding of how harmful speech on social media manifests and how it fuels conflict regardless of context.
Participants will gain insight into the limitations of AI content moderation and current practices
Panellists will discuss solutions (policy, advocacy, capacity building, awareness raising) and how these could contribute to improving conflict situations.