by Timothy Quinn | Apr 3, 2019 | Technology
I’m often asked whether the world is a more hateful place today than it was yesterday. Are current levels of intolerance and xenophobia statistically meaningful – waypoints on the road to some grim Mad Max world of hypertribalism? It’s a difficult question...
by Timothy Quinn | Jan 31, 2019 | Technology
pilotfish n. A small fish which swims alongside a shark in a symbiotic relationship, devouring parasites in return for protection Wikipedia When we relaunched Hatebase at the end of last year, we deployed not only a wealth of new data attributes (e.g. targeted groups,...
by Timothy Quinn | Dec 11, 2018 | Technology
If you’ve connected with the Hatebase API in the past, you’ll notice a number of changes with v4; we’ve updated our authentication and added several new data attributes, including specific targeted groups, so any code you’ve written to...
by Timothy Quinn | May 23, 2018 | General News, Technology
Sometimes we ask for donations. Today we just need your time. Five years ago, we helped launch Hatebase, a tool which NGOs like the Sentinel Project use to monitor incidents of hate speech. Hate speech is a quantifiable, well recognized step that can lead to mass...
by Timothy Quinn | May 28, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements, Technology
TANA DELTA, KENYA — Information security is an issue which has been raised several times in the communities currently being visited by The Sentinel Project in Kenya’s Tana Delta. As discovered during our recent survey of Tana residents, 82% of residents polled...
by Timothy Quinn | Mar 7, 2014 | General News, Kenya, Team Announcements, Technology, Una Hakika
Earlier this week, we released the first version of our downloadable, open source rumour management software, WikiRumours. An instance of this software, called Una Hakika? (“Are your sure?”), is currently being configured to support our efforts in...
by Timothy Quinn | Feb 14, 2014 | General News, Team Announcements, Technology
Timothy Quinn recently became The Sentinel Project’s Director of Technology. Tim is a hands-on technology leader with 15 years experience deploying software for web, mobile and social media. He’s taught at both New York University and the City University...
by Timothy Quinn | Jul 23, 2013 | General News, Team Announcements
Hatebase is both a hate speech lexicon and an aggregation of real-time incident data which we call “sightings” (i.e. actual incidents of hate speech for which we can establish both time and place). Although we value our robust vocabulary of multilingual,...
by Timothy Quinn | Mar 25, 2013 | General News, Kenya, Situations of Concern, Team Announcements
Predicting genocide is, by definition, an almost impossible task due to the scarcity of early, actionable data. There’s no chi-squared test or Monte Carlo method for reliably distributing societies along a spectrum from homogeneous to homicidal, both because the...
