Matt Katsaros

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Director of the Social Media Governance Initiative • matthew.katsaros@yale.edu

Matt Katsaros

Matt Katsaros is the Director of the Social Media Governance Initiative at the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School.

Before this, he spent the past decade working in the tech industry (two years at Twitter and seven years at Facebook). During that time, he worked as a Researcher and Advisor supporting product teams on various online governance issues from developing machine learning, automation of detection of offensive content, and reshaping systems to better incorporate principles of procedural justice theory after users violate platform rules. Outside of his research interests, Matt is deeply engaged in his art practice working in textiles, natural dyes, and print making.

Projects

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SMGI Spring 2023 Convening: Beyond Moderation
SMGI Spring 2023 Convening: Beyond Moderation

The SMGI/JC hosted a two-day in person conference on Thursday and Friday March 30th and 31st, 2023 at Yale Law School. This two-day conference included presentations from a cross-disciplinary group of scholars and industry practitioners discussing their work exploring a range of issues of online governance.

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Community Moderation Project
Community Moderation Project

The Community Moderation Project (CMP) is a qualitative study of how community moderation facilitates online discourse and how such moderation might be used in the future.

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Online Trust & Safety Course
Online Trust & Safety Course

Sponsored by the Justice Collaboratory’s Social Media Governance Initiative, this course on Trust, Safety, and Governance helps prepare participants to be effective practitioners of governance and leaders within Trust & Safety teams. The three-day intensive workshop provides state of the art training on ways to use digital technologies to create and maintain prosocial environments.

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Latest Publications

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A framework for promoting online prosocial behavior via digital interventions

Journal Article | Grüning, D. J., et.al. (2024). A framework for promoting online prosocial behavior via digital interventions. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-023-00052-7

Online Content Moderation: Does Justice Need a Human Face?

Journal Article | Katsaros, M., Kim, J. & Tyler, T.R. (2023).Online Content Moderation: Does Justice Need a Human Face?, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2023.2210879

A framework of digital interventions for online prosocial behavior

Journal Article | Grüning, D. J., Kamin, J., Panizza, F., Katsaros, M., & Lorenz-Spreen, P. (2023, February 9). A framework of digital interventions for online prosocial behavior.

Promoting Online Civility Through Platform Architecture

Journal Article | Kim, J., McDonald, C., Meosky, P., Katsaros, M., & Tyler, T. (2022, September 20). Promoting Online Civility Through Platform Architecture. Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 1(4).

Procedural Justice and Self Governance on Twitter: Unpacking the Experience of Rule Breaking on Twitter

Journal Article | Katsaros, M., Tyler, T., Kim, J., & Meares, T. (2022). Procedural Justice and Self Governance on Twitter: Unpacking the Experience of Rule Breaking on Twitter. Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 1(03).

Reconsidering Tweets: Intervening During Tweet Creation Decreases Offensive Content

Journal Article | Katsaros, M., Yang, K., & Fratamico, L. (in press). Reconsidering Tweets: Intervening During Tweet Creation Decreases Offensive Content. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media.

Social Media governance: can social media companies motivate voluntary rule following behavior among their users?

Journal Article | Tyler, T., Katsaros, M., Meares, T., & Venkatesh, S. (2019). Social media governance: can social media companies motivate voluntary rule following behavior among their users? Journal of experimental criminology, 1-19.

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