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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Two Case Studies on Platform Design
Two Case Studies on Platform Design

The SMGI's Spring '23 lab partnered with New_ Public to develop case studies looking at two specific design features of online platforms - reputation management systems and jury/tribunal systems. Over the course of the semester, students in our lab read through related research, collated examples of how these systems are used across different platforms, and interviewed practitioners who have developed these systems on major platforms resulting in these case study reports.

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Analyzing an Archive of 20 Years of Trust and Safety Research
Analyzing an Archive of 20 Years of Trust and Safety Research

As the T&S field matures, policymakers, regulators, and industry practitioners are increasingly hungry for empirical evidence to guide their work. As part of the Social Media Governance Initiative, we downloaded an archive of 20 years of over 1,200 research articles written on various online Trust and Safety topics. Our postbaccalaureate fellow, Michael Bochkur Dratver, then began a systematic coding of all articles in the archive using a codebook that was developed collaboratively among those in our lab and feedback from others interested in the project.

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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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Latest Publications

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New Worlds Arise: Online Trust and Safety
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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