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Need-to-know news and analysis about platform policy, content moderation and internet regulation. Twice a week.

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Jan
10

Alexios Mantzarlis on Meta's 'more speech, fewer mistakes' announcement

Covering: Mark Zuckerberg's accusations of fact checking bias, Community Notes and the power of users' 'directional sense' and the decision to prioritise US vs global speech
5 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
6 min read
Dec
10

Why "censorship" is complex

High error rates during moderation enforcement often leads to user frustration and accusations of censorship. As Meta's Nick Clegg showed this week, these issues are not just technical but political and rarely understood outside T&S teams. That poses a problem.
6 min read
Dec
06

'Error rates are too high', OpenAI's red teaming research and Nighat's story

The week in content moderation - edition #274
4 min read
Dec
02

What the T&S community needs to hear (in your own words)

Many Trust and Safety professionals need wisdom and encouragement more than ever right now. The people who took part in my TrustCon zine project provided just that
5 min read
Nov
29

Teen social media ban passed, Bluesky beefs up mod team and detecting algospeak

The week in content moderation - edition #273
6 min read
Nov
26

Fighting complexity with auditability

Could a more transparent, collaborative, and adaptable policy enforcement model combat cries of 'censorship' and empower diverse online communities to self-moderate? Open-source policy documents and AI-driven auditability might hold the key
8 min read