“How Facebook Uses Research and Analysis to Inform Content Policy,” with Radha Iyengar Plumb, Facebook

ISPS SPECIAL EVENT

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Radha Iyengar Plumb, researcher at Facebook. The talk will focus on how Facebook develops, implements, and enforces its policies on what content and behavior is not allowed on the platform and how research informs these processes. This will include details on the internal policy development processes, how product and operations teams work to build the machine and human review processes, as well as details on the different ways in which both theoretic and empirical social science research inform these efforts. The talk will conclude with Facebook’s approach to collaboration with external researchers.

Dr. Radha Iyengar Plumb is the head of Product Policy research at Facebook. Previously, she worked as a Senior Economist at the RAND Corporation and served in senior staff positions at the White House National Security Council, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy. At the outset of her career, she was an assistant professor at the London School of Economics and a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Harvard. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. Her research has covered empirical evaluations of policies and programs aimed at reducing violence including criminal violence, sexual assault, terrorist behavior, and sexual and intimate partner violence.

This event is open to the Yale community.