2024-06-12 –, Ethical Dilema Cafe
Join us in an interactive session where we showcase our prototype - the Data Knowledge Hub - to reduce the hurdles for the use of social media monitoring. By crowdsourcing vital information, legal frameworks, and innovative tools, we aim to democratize access to critical insights while fostering a collaborative network of practitioners.
Our session goals are to gather diverse perspectives, ideas, and feedback to enhance the inclusivity and effectiveness of our initiative. No prior expertise is necessary; we welcome insights from all fields intersecting with data science, disinformation, and democracy work.
Charlotte Freihse is a project manager in the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Upgrade Democracy project, where she focuses primarily on platform governance and disinformation, as well as the impact of digital technologies on public opinion-forming and discourse. Before joining the foundation, she was a freelancer in the newsroom of Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). In parallel, she was a research assistant in the European research project NETHATE and developed a categorization system for intervention measures against online hate speech with the University of Jena and Das NETTZ. Charlotte holds a Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies with a focus on digital technologies in conflicts as well as peace processes.
Georgia Langton works as a Junior Project Manager for the Bertelsmann Foundations Upgrade Democracy project in Berlin, Germany. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Media from Philipps University in Marburg and is completing her master’s degree in International Affairs with a specialisation in Human Rights and Global Governance. Georgia is voluntarily engaged with the Amnesty International Digital Verification Corps as a senior member of the Berlin chapter, conducting open source investigations into potential human rights abuses using open source investigation tools.