Confronting Online Hate
A Hybrid Tech and Policy Hackathon, February 9-16, 2024
Watch the Livestream of the Hackathon!
Congrats to all the winners!
Policy Track Grand Prize Winner:
Myles Cramer - University of Pittsburgh - Protecting Youth from Hateful Conduct &
Sexual Harassment Online
Policy Track Runner Up Prize Winner:
Rachael Harris – Carnegie Mellon University - Tackling Hate Speech on “X” with Hate
Speech
Tech Track Grand Prize Winner:
Rory McCann, Chase Lahner, Ivan Puri, Holden Gent - University of Pittsburgh - HateBot
Tech Track Runner Up Prize Winner:
Alex McElravy, Emily Brozeski, and Tessa Datte – Duquesne University - Tone Tagged
Commenting
Tech Track Honorable Mention:
Paul Doherty, Sam Houpt, and Ryan Bloch - University of Pittsburgh - HateBlocker
Hacking4Humanity 2024
Judges
Chad Heitzenrater, Senior Information Scientist, RAND
Jess Kuntz, Policy Director for Pitt Cyber, University of Pittsburgh
Annie Newman, Director of Digital Strategy, Gov. Josh Shapiro
Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Assistant Professor at the Golisano College of Computing and
Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
Advisors
Clarke Bacharach, Independent Consultant
Jay Carroll, RAND
Florence Chee, Loyola University Chicago
Kevin Hanshaw, Google
Abi Hunter, Google
Morgan Gray, Duquesne University
Daniel Little, InvolveMINT
Rachael Miller Neilan, Duquesne University
Katherine Norton, Duquesne University
Ehi Nosakhare, Microsoft
Eric Schulte, Google
Elise Silva, University of Pittsburgh
Richard Zhang, Google
Organizers
Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law
Pitt Cyber: The Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security
The Center for Informed Democracy and Social-cybersecurity Research Group
The Collaboratory Against Hate Research Group
The Sara Fine Institute
Hacking4Humanity 2023
Download detailed information about the March 2023 Hacking4Humanity competition, including winners, judges, and sponsors.