2022-11-16 –, Spaceship 001
The session will bring online takedown transparency best practices to the Arabic and English speaking communities, and will evaluate how these best practices can be modified to meet the participant's research and activities needs.
Additionally, we also hope that local/national online platforms in the Arabic speaking region that are committed to transparency and informing their user communities will want to deepen this commitment by sharing the takedown request they receive with the Lumen Database.
Lumen is a research project based out of Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, devoted to collecting and analyzing requests to remove online materials.
Over the years, the Lumen database, a repository of online takedown requests, has been used by journalists, academics, policy analysts, investigative reports and researchers the world over to break news, analyse trends and accuracy in takedown notices, and inform policymaking ideas for platform governance and content moderation online. In our 45 minute session at Bread&Net, the Lumen team would like to open the workshop with a brief introduction to Lumen and then dive into the transparency best practices for online content removal.
We will discuss the highlights of the Takedown Transparency Best Practices that Lumen is currently developing and will create breakout rooms for brainstorming sessions for the participants to discuss the strengths and other areas to work on for the transparency best practices.
Relatedly, we would like to discuss the possible research opportunities Lumen’s database affords re: government takedowns and on other fronts; how Lumen can both facilitate such research and expand the research community using it and finally, ways in which we might most successfully seek out other sources of notices to make the database more comprehensive and useful.
"""لومن (Lumen) هو مشروع بحثي أطلقه مركز بيركمان كلاين للإنترنت والمجتمع في جامعة هارفارد، وهو متخصّص في جمع طلبات إزالة المحتوى عبر الإنترنت وتحليلها.
سنناقش أبرز ممارسات الشفافية في مجال الإزالة التي يطوّرها مشروع "لومن" حاليًا وسننشئ غرفًا جانبية لجلسات العصف الذهني للمشاركين لمناقشة نقاط القوة والمجالات الأخرى التي يجب العمل عليها لتحسين أفضل ممارسات الشفافية.
The Lumen database collects and analyzes legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law. These data enable us to study the prevalence of legal threats and let Internet users see the source of content removals.