We're working on abusability testing and combating platform abuse.

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26 Aug 2020
Hello, World! Today we’re unveiling the beta version of PlatformAbuse.org, a knowledge source of technological harms and mitigations to guide safer product development. We’ll walk you through how it works:
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Mobius retweeted
There are many lists you may strive to land on, but this shouldn't be one of them. @PlatformAbuse is a knowledge source of technological harms and mitigations to guide safer product development. Good for #digitalpolicy shaping too! platformabuse.org
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Thanks @DenseDiscovery for featuring us in their latest issue! We’ll continue educating folks about online abuse in its many forms. 💪🏼
1️⃣1️⃣7️⃣ is out and includes @alyssaxuu, @meeterapp, @platformabuse, @jshmc, @profhamel, @shaneparrish, @itsnicethat, @peterhuntwelch & others. With great recommendations by @dangerlam_kim. Many thanks to @sunsamaHQ for sponsoring the issue! 💌 densediscovery.com/issues/11…
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Cool resource on data patterns by @projectsbyif
hey @projectsbyif have you seen this yet? platformabuse.org/ Great work by @PlatformAbuse and a nice pairing with catalogue.projectsbyif.com/
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29 Oct 2020
Curious about abusability testing and why it's necessary? 🤔 Check out our #FixTheInternet @hackernoon article about it!
"What is Abusability Testing and Why is it Necessary?" by @nchisays hackernoon.com/what-is-abusa… #vulnerability #platformabuse
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26 Oct 2020
To best combat platform abuse, it starts with anyone designing and building a product, testing for its abusability. The result of abusability testing a product or feature can mean nixing it. Make that ethical equitable call to prevent individual, community, or societal harm 🌎
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Mobius retweeted
One of my favorite companies I've been working with this summer: @PlatformAbuse. Operationalising Abusability Testing For All by Mobius Project blog.codingitforward.com/mob…
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Across my life I've been repeatedly called an "edge case", that nothing can be done for the various harms I've experienced. I've had to figure them out alone. I'm not an "edge case". Even if I were, a single instance of harm done should be enough to matter, to work on solving.
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Mobius retweeted
20 Oct 2020
🔥 Avi is such a tech leader in civic tech combating platform abuse. So grateful to know their team is building @PlatformAbuse
20 Oct 2020
Check out Avi's story — how they created their own path to work in civic tech and eventually founded an entire org devoted to platform abuse 💻🔥
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20 Oct 2020
Check out Avi's story — how they created their own path to work in civic tech and eventually founded an entire org devoted to platform abuse 💻🔥
Our #FirstActFund grantee @PlatformAbuse is standardizing abusability testing and combating platform abuse. Hear why their co-founder is passionate about their work: blog.codingitforward.com/mob…
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13 Oct 2020
Time for our weekly post on platform abuse! ✨ This week, we cover proctoring software and do a link roundup of platform related incidents: medium.com/@platformabuse/pr…
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13 Oct 2020
On the other hand, Tinder is considering optional photo verification, but this may harm more than it helps 🤷🏻‍♀️
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13 Oct 2020
But back to proctoring software! Our most recent blog post considers what other edtech companies should learn about how Proctorio’s webcam features have been abused. Click below to learn more about camfecting and its risks for online learning 👀 platformabuse.org/news/2020/…
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In this week's update, we cover the Hacktoberfest fallout and GitHub's new moderation tools from an abusability testing angle 🧙🏽 All platforms, even "non-social" platforms, are still social platforms! 🎃 platformabuse.org/news/2020/…
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We post our updates and news directly on PlatformAbuse.org (if you're avoiding trackers 🥰) and Medium every Tuesday! Want early bird notifications? Follow us on Medium! 📬 Here's this week's update on Medium: medium.com/@platformabuse/we…
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29 Sep 2020
To build better and safer, tech teams need abusability testing: a comprehensive approach to test products’ vulnerability to being abused. We introduce the concept in our latest blog post: medium.com/@platformabuse/an… (thread)
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29 Sep 2020
Abusability testing challenges product teams to ask: “How might we be under-serving or even harming some segments of the population?” 🗣
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29 Sep 2020
We’re hard at work building products & services to help product teams experiment with & adopt abusability testing into their product development life cycles. Let us know if you’re interested in learning more! ✨👩🏻‍💻
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