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SUMMARY:Social Media Platform Design\, Algorithmic Systems\, and Digital Harm: A Virtual Judicial Training for Judges and Law Clerks
DESCRIPTION:Home\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaunch of Advanced Learning Academy expands lifelong educational opportunities in public health\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n		\n		\n			Hide caption\n		\n	\n	\n		\n		\n			Show caption\n		\n	\n\n\n	Students in an Executive and Continuing Education class. Photo: Kent Dayton / Harvard Chan School\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Type \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Type \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrepare for the social media algorithm issues already reaching courts\n\n\n\nCourts are increasingly asked to evaluate claims involving harms happening to social media users – especially young people. This training explains social media platform design\, algorithmic recommendation systems\, and alleged harms they are causing to children. It provides a practical\, legal framework for judicial evaluation\, including core concepts in evidence and causation of harm\, and how legal theories of products liability and speech protection may apply.  \n\n\n\nWhat the Training Covers\n\n\n\n• How engagement-based algorithms work in social media feeds—and how platform design features shape user behavior (e.g.\, infinite scroll\, autoplay\, notifications) \n\n\n\n• Predictable patterns of alleged harm (exposure\, escalation\, and engagement-related harms) \n\n\n\n• Evidence and causation: correlation vs. causation and limits of available research and platform data \n\n\n\n• Legal doctrines courts are applying\, including First Amendment considerations and Section 230 \n\n\n\n• Judicial tools and guardrails (expert testimony\, amicus briefs\, independent risk audits\, and more) \n\n\n\nWho Should Attend\n\n\n\nThe training was expressly designed for federal and state court judges and law clerks\, but everyone is welcome to attend.  \n\n\n\nFormat\n\n\n\nExpert presentations\, brief anonymous polls\, guided discussion\, and live Q&A with the virtual audience; session recorded with an edited version shared excluding discussions\, chat\, and audience attendee names. \n\n\n\nAgenda at a Glance\n\n\n\n\n12:00–1:20 PM ET — Expert presentations\, anonymous polls\, and guided discussion\n\n\n\n1:20–1:30 PM ET — Break\n\n\n\n1:30–3:00 PM ET — Expert presentations\, anonymous polls\, guided discussion\, wrap-up\, and live Q&A\n\n\n\n\nSupport\n\n\n\nThis training is free to attend thanks to support from the American Association for Justice Robert L. Habush Endowment and the Becca Schmill Foundation. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Information\n\n\n\n\nNancy Costello\, JD – Clinical Professor of Law; Director\, First Amendment Law Clinic\, Michigan State University College of Law; Director\, McLellan Free Speech Online Library.\n\n\n\nS. Bryn Austin\, ScD – Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Pediatrics\, Harvard Medical School; S. Jean Emans\, MD\, Endowed Chair in Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine\, Boston Children’s Hospital; Research Scientist in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine\, Boston Children’s Hospital\n\n\n\nJacob Appel\, MPA – Chief Strategist\, ORCAA Collaborative Expert Assistance Network\n\n\n\nJill R. Kavanaugh\, MLIS – Program Manager\, Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders; Boston Children’s Hospital\n\n\n\nKylee Nemetz\, JD – Litigation Attorney\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n		\n		\n			\n				\n					\n						Unleash your potential at Harvard Chan School.					\n					In addition to our degree programs\, we offer highly targeted programs through our Advanced Learning Academy\, directed and taught by Harvard faculty. \n											\n																															\n									\n										Degree Programs									\n								\n																															\n									\n										How to Apply									\n								\n																															\n									\n										Advanced Learning Academy
URL:https://hsph.harvard.edu/eating-disorders-striped/events/social-media-algorithms-judicial-training/
LOCATION:Virtual Live Session via Zoom
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