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Why AI companion apps demand a different Trust & Safety standard

Picture the product brief: Build something that feels like a friend. Make it warm. Make it available. Make it affirming. Make it remember. Now picture the postmortem. AI companion apps…

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Why content authenticity is becoming a frontline Trust & Safety problem

For years, questions of content authenticity, for the most part, sat at the edges of Trust & Safety. Deepfakes were a novelty. Synthetic images were rare enough to treat as…

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Aaron Rodericks of Bluesky on why decentralized content moderation isn’t easier. It changes where power sits

For years, the technology industry has treated content moderation as a scaling problem. Get enough data. Build better models. Hire more reviewers. Centralize decision‑making, and with enough investment, the hardest…

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Why “humans vs AI” is the wrong debate in content moderation

For years, content moderation has been framed as a race between people and machines. Each advance in automation revives the promise that AI will finally be able to scale trust…

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Teens and the hidden crisis of sextortion: why fraud tactics drive grooming and why teens rarely report it

Sextortion is becoming one of the fastest-growing online threats facing teens, yet it rarely receives the same focus as bullying or explicit content. Part of the reason it’s so difficult…

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Building safer platforms together: inside Roblox’s new Parents Council and the future of Safety Advisory Boards

When tech companies talk about safety, it’s often in the language of algorithms and enforcement. But behind the scenes, a quieter movement is reshaping how platforms build trust. From TikTok…

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When victims become perpetrators: rethinking youth involvement in online fraud

Fraud – as with most crime – has long been viewed through a binary lens of the offender and the victim. But for a growing number of young people, that…

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Inside Instagram’s “PG-13 by Default”: what it means for teen safety and the future of content ratings

Instagram is taking a page from Hollywood. In a landmark move, the platform announced that teen accounts will now be guided by PG-13 by Default – a new setting that…

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Google’s Abhishek Roy on why teens need a new approach to scam prevention

Despite heightened levels of awareness around online scams and their many forms, more young people are falling victim than ever before. The FBI’s annual Internet Crime Report found that Americans…

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Introducing Trust Issues, WebPurify’s new podcast on the future of online safety

What happens when you sit down with the people working behind the scenes to keep the internet safe? You get honest, thought-provoking conversations about scams, misinformation, content moderation, and the…

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