Yasmin Green (businesswoman)

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Yasmin Green
OccupationCEO of Jigsaw
Known forPerspective machine learning tool to track online trolls
Website Yasmin Green on Twitter

Yasmin Green is the CEO of Jigsaw, a unit within Google that addresses threats to open societies. She leads an interdisciplinary team that researches and develops technical solutions to a range of global security challenges, including violent extremism, censorship, harassment, and misinformation. Jigsaw oversees both international cybersecurity and content moderation across Google's platforms. Green was the first employee at Jigsaw hired by founder Jared Cohen. Green and Jigsaw have developed a machine learning system known as Perspective which tracks online trolls by identifying their behavior. [1] [2] [3]

Green is a fellow of the Aspen Institute and is a member of its Commission on Information Disorder. She is a member of the National Task Force On Election Crises, an initiative of the Protect Democracy project.

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References

  1. "Yasmin Green". Wired.
  2. "With U.S. nudges, Google and others aim to help Iranian protesters". Washington Post. October 14, 2022.
  3. "Meet the Head International Troll Slayer at Google". Vogue. February 15, 2017.