Trust and Safety Comes of Age?

As content moderation and other trust and safety issues have been, to put it mildly, at the fore of tech concerns over the last few years, it’s interesting to take a step back and look at the various conferences, professional organizations and research communities that have emerged to address this broad and challenging set of subjects. To get a sense of where trust and safety is as a field at this moment in time, Tech Policy Press spoke to three individuals involved in it, each coming from different perspectives: Shelby Grossman, a research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory and a leader in the community of academic researchers studying trust and safety issues as co-editor of the recently launched https://tsjournal.org/index.php/jots (Journal of Online Trust and Safety) David Sullivan, the leader of an industry funded consortium focused on developing best practices for the field called the https://dtspartnership.org/ (Digital Trust and Safety Partnership); and Jeff Allen, co-founder and chief research officer of an independent membership organization of trust and safety professionals, the https://integrityinstitute.org/ (Integrity Institute).