8:00—9:30       Welcome 

9:30—10:30     Keynote:  Cody Buntain, University of Maryland

   From War to Child Welfare: Content Moderation as Negotiated Influence

Large-scale content moderation is often implemented as a one-way pipeline, where powerful actors impose top-down interventions, often with opaque measures of success. Such models neglect the socio-technical feedback loops in which platforms, creators, consumers, and governance organizations respond to and reshape moderation efforts. In this talk, I instead frame "content moderation" as a negotiated influence effort, where moderators seek to shape participation in an information environment, moderated actors respond, and the ecosystem changes. This reframing allows us to view seemingly disparate interactions through a common framework and opens new avenues for measuring impact, resilience, and quality in the information ecosystem. Drawing from my work on disinformation, crisis communication, and parental controls, I show how moderators across these cases attempt to influence audience behavior, how actors of varying power and position respond, and why conventional moderation metrics often are poorly aligned with the outcomes we desire. I end with a path forward that shifts evaluation from isolated moderation decisions toward behavioral adaptation, downstream effects, and resilience at individual, community, and societal scales.

10:30—11:00   Coffee Break

10:00—12:30   Paper Session 

• Who Governs the Labelers? Auditing Policy Transparency, Coverage, and Sustainability in Bluesky's Stackable Moderation Ecosystem  Zihan Gao

• Echo Chambers of Digital Harm: Layered Affordances and the Limits of Single-Platform Moderation in India and South Korea Heesoo Jang and Narayanamoorthy Nanditha

• Designing for Desirable System States in Social Media Tim Booker, Hussam Habib and Jana Lasser 

• Bridge Users and Cross-Community Information Diffusion: Implications for Content Moderation Thomas Greger, Nicholas Greger and Marina Kogan

• On Fairness: Troubling understandings of content moderation fairness through the lens of politicians' speech  Alyvia Walters

• Methodological and Governance Challenges of Clip-Distributed Influencers and Clip-Repurposing Influencers Joseph Schafer

12:30—14:00   Lunch Break

14:00—15:00   Discussion Panel

• Amy X. Zhang, University of Washington

• Eshwar Chandrasekharan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Alyvia Walters, University of Kentucky

• Sanjay Kairam, Simile

15:00—15:15   Coffee Break

15:15—17:15   Interactive Session

17:15—17:30   Synthesis and Closing Remarks

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