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Timothy Quinn on the TechTO stage

Timothy Quinn

Co-founder, Hatebase

AITorontoOn TechTO stages since 2019

Timothy Quinn co-founded Hatebase, the Toronto-built multilingual repository of hate-speech terms that NGOs and platforms use to spot early signals of violence. It launched in 2013 with the Sentinel Project, a genocide-prevention group. He was chief technology officer of the government-procurement platform OMX when he spoke at TechTO in December 2019.

On the TechTO stage ×1

TECHTO10:05

Free speech vs hate speech I Timothy Quinn, Principal at Hatebase and CTO of OMX

TechTO · December 2019
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In their words

when you remove hate speech you're not removing the hate you're just removing the expression of hatred

TechTO, Dec 2019 · watch at 05:33 ↗
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Around the web ×2

Article
Canadian company compiling database of hate speech that may help others spot and stop itCBC News
2019
Interview
Hatebase's Timothy Quinn on the rise of hate speech and what the media can do to counter itFIPP
2019

Quick answers

What is Timothy Quinn known for?

Co-founding Hatebase, an online repository of structured, multilingual, usage-based hate speech data, built in Toronto with the Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention.

What did he talk about at TechTO?

Where free speech ends and hate speech begins, and what a machine can and cannot decide about that line. TechTO, December 2019.

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