Aliya Bhatia

What Kids and Parents Want: Policy Insights for Social Media Safety Features

Research with teens and parents identifies which safety features they actually want and use, arguing policy should center user-desired controls rather than blanket restrictions.

Content Moderation in the Global South: Four Low-Resource Languages

Synthesizes four case studies showing platforms overwhelmingly invest in English-language moderation, leaving low-resource-language speakers under-protected and subject to both over- and under-enforcement.

Moderating Tamil Content on Social Media

Content policies are unevenly defined and enforced for Tamil speakers; automated moderation and Trust & Safety resourcing lag far behind English.

Lost in Translation: Large Language Models in Non-English Content Analysis

Multilingual LLMs used for content moderation perform substantially worse in non-English (especially low-resource) languages; cautions against treating them as a fix for global moderation.