Social & computer scientist who works alongside communities on science for a safer, fairer, more understanding Internet. Founder, Citizens and Technology Lab · Visiting Scholar, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia · Assistant Prof at Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Co-founder of @transparenttech Enjoys taking photos & listening to books/poetry on very long bike rides.
Social & computer scientist who works alongside communities on science for a safer, fairer, more understanding Internet. Founder, Citizens and Technology Lab · Visiting Scholar, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia · Assistant Prof at Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Co-founder of @transparenttech Enjoys taking photos & listening to books/poetry on very long bike rides.
Last month at a conference, someone came up to me and excitedly asked me what I thought about prediction markets. As a scholar of online violence, I explained that betting markets have long been associated with intimidation & threats, and that this has been a problem in sports for a long time. Expanding gambling expands intimidation too.
And here we are.
