'Profit over safety', TikTok announce more cuts and the global regulatory gap
The week in content moderation - edition #282
6 min read
Feb
17
How to write better transparency reports
Mandated transparency reports are a cornerstone of online safety regulation. But dozens of companies still produce voluntary disclosures that take significant time and energy to pull together. What is the purpose of these reports now that so much other information is in the public domain?
8 min read
Feb
07
The transatlantic speech trade, Deepseek safety report and building out Blacksky
The week in content moderation - edition #280
6 min read
Jan
31
The pitfalls of a Meta-built Community Notes, Germany prepares and AI safety report
The week in content moderation - edition #279
5 min read
Jan
24
EU bolsters DSA compliance, multimodal moderation and Bluesky release T&S report
The week in content moderation - edition #278
7 min read
Jan
17
The TikTok timebomb, knock-on effects of Meta's new rules and time to FreeOurFeed?
The week in content moderation - edition #277
7 min read
Jan
10
Reaction to Meta's T&S about-turn, safety tech aquisition and Discord bot builders
The week in content moderation - edition #276
7 min read
Jan
08
I read the State of Safety Tech report so you don’t have to (but you should)
An important, and growing, part of the Trust & Safety landscape is the support and expertise provided by technology services companies (aka vendors). A new report sheds more light on these companies
5 min read
Dec
20
Regulators unveil new rules, Anthropic's 'bottom-up' safety tool and Bluesky ban reckoning
The week in content moderation - edition #275
7 min read
Dec
17
What the T&S community predicts for 2025
Over the last 12 months, T&S leaders and practitioners have seen unprecedented change in an industry that many have worked in for years and many others are brand new to. I asked a few of them what their predictions were for 2025