Join us on Tuesday, October 13 as our #FallSeminarSeries kicks off with a talk by Anthony Chen, postdoctoral scholar at the Tech Impact and Policy Center! 🔗 stanford.io/3VWPcIB

One of the coolest things about JoTS #TSRConf is that it’s interdisciplinary and STEMmy, but also interested in qualitative work. Other events Ive been to that had such a wide breadth of fields in attendance were definite more catered to quant and prototypes/biomed @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social

Thank you so much @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social for amazing another version of Trust and Safety Conference where important discussions bring under one roof.

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📌 Deepfakes in the Global South: Understanding Stakeholder Perceptions, Harms, and Governance Challenges in Sri Lanka, India, and Bangladesh By Dilrukshi Gamage (@dilrukshilk.bsky.social), Dilki Sewwandi, Shreeti Shubham, Sumaia Arefin, Dilaxshini Dunstan, Kartik Joshi, and Rashmi Gunawardana

🙇🏽‍♀️my brain > @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social thank you!!!!!! Presenting my research and my work with @blackskyweb.xyz is always heart work.

Excited to be at the Trust & Safety Research Conference at Stanford! If you want to chat, I have plenty to say about detection and policy for frauds and scams, impersonation, covert influence operations, and everything else related to online deception and coordination #TSRConf

I’m at Stanford today and tomorrow learning from researchers from all over the world about what they are learning about AI safety, ethics, and governance. #tsrconf

"AI agents are being integrated into people's lives before anyone has built the infrastructure to truly hold them accountable. There's growing gap between what these systems can do and what people affected by them are able to understand." —Anya Svan at Stanford #tsrconf

I did not expect my title slide of my presentation at #TSRConf to get so many laughs. If anyone wanted to see this slide again to identify all the easter eggs (like there being no like button) here it is. For all those who weren’t able to attend the live talk, i gotchu, this will be a Youtube video.

As #TSRConf kicks off, the Journal of Online Trust and Safety is excited to release the 2026 Trust and Safety Research Conference Proceedings! This new issue brings together five commentaries and four research articles exploring key questions and issues in #TrustAndSafety. 🔗 bit.ly/4zdofPq

Getting hyped to present during "The People Behind T&S Moderation" research section at 1:30pm during @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social ! If you are here, please look for me and say hello --I will be wearing bright pink glasses and a Blacksky shirt. #TSRConf #TrustAndSafety #OnlineSafety #TechPolicy

Looking forward to presenting "𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗪𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴: 𝗔𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀" tommorow at the Trust and Safety Research Conference! Catch this talk at the tail end of the 10am session in the Fisher Room. I'll share a post-audit update :) #TSRConf Check out the paper here.

Auditing LLM Responses in a Complex Policy Landscape: Abortion Law in the United States | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

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🚨Come work with us! 🚨 We're hiring a postdoc for Stanford's AI for Public Benefit Lab (ai4pb.stanford.edu), in partnership with @stanfordhai.bsky.social Open to PhDs from psych, poli sci, sociology, CS, econ, HCI, data science, etc. Please share! Position: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

#TSRConf is in 1 week! Your first TSRC? Here’s what to expect. Start the day with breakfast and a keynote, then make the conference your own: choose from research presentations, lightning talks, panels, and interactive workshops across a wide range of #TrustAndSafety topics.

I’m excited to be on a panel at the Trust & Safety Research Conference @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social on Oct 1, w @ryanmoore.bsky.social, @nadiabrashier.bsky.social & Doug Shadel. We'll be talking all about older adults & untrustworthy info online. #TSRConf #TrustAndSafety #OnlineSafety #TechPolicy

Next week, I will be sharing 'Moderation for the People: How Blacksky Is Building Community Safety from the Inside Out' at #TSRConf 2026. Looking forward to conversations on the future of online trust and safety. @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social #TSRConf #TrustAndSafety #OnlineSafety #TechPolicy

Our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2608.18352 discusses implications for the sustainability of the open web, and for user agency as AI increasingly mediates their access to information. We’ll also be presenting at the Trust & Safety Conference on Oct 1–2 @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social #TRSConf 9/9

AI in Search Reduces Publisher Referrals Without Improving User Experience: Experimental Evidence

The integration of generative AI into web search delivers synthesized answers to user queries, changing how people navigate and assess information, while raising concerns about the downstream impacts ...

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📝 New Report! #AICompanions are rapidly emerging as a new form of interaction with #AI systems that users increasingly engage with not only as tools, but also as sources of emotional support, companionship, mentorship, role-play, and intimacy. 🔗 stanford.io/4dJrvJI

At #TSRConf, ideas don’t stop at publication, they move into practice. Soniya Agrawal of UC Berkeley reflects on what makes the conference distinct: a rare opportunity for academic research to connect with the #TrustAndSafety practitioners building real-world safeguards.

A new journal paper from me - “Our Content Should Be Treated Differently”: Race, Gender, Language, and the Experiences of Quechua Women on Social Media, published in the Journal of Online Trust and Safety by the @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...

Registration for #TSRConf closes in less than one week! If you’ve been thinking about joining us, this is your last chance to be part of this year’s conference. Sign up by Sunday, September 20! ⤵️ 🎟️ stanford.io/3SgrmWl

I’m thrilled to have our paper published in this fantastic JOTS’s special issue on Digital Intersectionality and Marginalization in the Majority World. Read more about our paper on “Queering Cybersecurity in the Age of Digital Transnational Repression” in this thread🧵 bsky.app/profile/nour...

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The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is thrilled to release its new special issue: Digital Intersectionality and Marginalization in the Majority World. 🌏 🔗 tsjournal.org/index.php/jo... #JOTS #TrustAndSafety #MajorityWorld #GlobalSouth

“It’s really changed the worldwide conversation." TIP Center Director Jeff Hancock spoke with @knowablemag.bsky.social for an article exploring Australia's #SMMA restrictions and other potential approaches for regulating (and researching) teen #SocialMedia use. ⤵️

What can we learn from Australia’s social media ban for teens?

The Aussie experiment comes amid a lack of clear evidence that the apps harm the majority of adolescents. It may take a dramatic research pivot to finally reveal what’s going on and how to fix it.

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The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is thrilled to release its new special issue: Digital Intersectionality and Marginalization in the Majority World. 🌏 🔗 tsjournal.org/index.php/jo... #JOTS #TrustAndSafety #MajorityWorld #GlobalSouth

What if we used #ethics as a tool to strengthen structured, scalable ways to make #TrustAndSafety decisions? Presented in partnership with @ethicsinsociety.bsky.social, this pre-conference workshop of #TSRConf will equip you to build #ethics into your decision-making, workflows, and team processes.

As #TrustAndSafety continues to evolve, strong research has never been more important. For Avi Jager, #TSRConf stands out because of its commitment to advancing rigorous, interdisciplinary research that helps shape the future of the field.

What happens when agentic systems no longer show their work? In a post for @lawfaremedia.org, @rer.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social shared takeaways from their analysis of the edit logs of Grokipedia, offering insights into the governing practices of an AI-generated reference system. ⤵️

Grokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn’t Tell Anyone.

A halt in Grokipedia’s edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.

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California teens are often described as isolated, screen-dependent, or disconnected. But new research suggests something more hopeful: they want more time together, in person, in places where they feel they belong.

TIP Center Director Jeff Hancock traveled to Seattle this month to present research and participate in a panel discussion on Australia's #SocialMediaDelay and the implications for policymakers, platforms, and young people around the world. Learn more via @seattletimes.com ⤵️

Australia banned social media for youth under 16. What can WA learn?

Australia’s law puts the burden on social media providers to take “reasonable steps” to prevent people under age 16 from having accounts on the platforms.

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What does #AI look like in the future of online trust and safety? This year, #TSRConf will feature multiple sessions exploring AI and its growing role in #TrustAndSafety, including the new risks these systems create and how they can be evaluated, governed, and used to make digital spaces safer.

Planning to attend #TSRConf with colleagues? Save 10% by purchasing 5 or more General Admission or Late Bird tickets in a single order! Begin by completing the registration for one attendee. Then select “Add Member” to add the remaining members of your group. 📩 🔗 https://stanford.io/3SgrmWl