Really excited for this! We have an amazing program lined up! 🤩🤩🤩

Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social · yesterday

The 2026 #TSRConf agenda is now live! Join us at Stanford on October 1–2, 2026 for conversations on platform accountability, #AI governance, online harms, transparency, #DigitalPolicy, and other key #TrustAndSafety issues. Explore the agenda ⤵️ 🔗 bit.ly/3SgzmXP

The 2026 #TSRConf agenda is now live! Join us at Stanford on October 1–2, 2026 for conversations on platform accountability, #AI governance, online harms, transparency, #DigitalPolicy, and other key #TrustAndSafety issues. Explore the agenda ⤵️ 🔗 bit.ly/3SgzmXP

As #misinformation has become a defining threat to public life, traditional #MediaLiteracy training has not kept pace with how young people today consume information. How can we capture young people’s attention and help them critically and skillfully navigate today’s information ecosystem?

The #TSRConf 2026 agenda is coming soon! Don’t miss the opportunity to join researchers and practitioners from across academia, industry, government, and civil society to tackle the most pressing questions and issues in #TrustAndSafety. Registration is open now. 🔗 stanford.io/3SgrmWl

Register to join us in this gathering of great minds to talk about the most frontier practices in tech and society. I look forward to welcoming all in the field of AI communication, to explore how AI reshapes the phenomenology of how we perceive, believe, and act.

Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social · 2w ago

As #TSRConf turns 5, we’re looking ahead to the major conversations shaping #TrustAndSafety in 2026.

As #TSRConf turns 5, we’re looking ahead to the major conversations shaping #TrustAndSafety in 2026.

Excited to present at #TSRConf at Stanford (@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social) Oct 1–2. I will be discussing @blackskyweb.xyz's moderation! 🔗 Visit the Conference Website for more details. Register here! #TSRConf #TrustAndSafety #OnlineSafety #TechPolicy tip.fsi.stanford.edu/evergreen-tr...

#TSRConf is a community in the truest sense! For Kassadi Smith of the University of Central Florida, the conference is a valuable opportunity to connect with the broader #TrustAndSafety community. Early-bird pricing for TSRC 2026 ends TODAY! Register now ⤵️ 🔗 https://stanford.io/3SgrmWl

The Tech Impact and Policy Center is thrilled to have been selected as one of 30 @safeonlinefund.bsky.social grantees. Our project, Co-Designing a Child-Safe LLM, was chosen for its potential as an innovative model to address urgent child protection challenges in the digital age.

Early-bird registration for #TSRConf 2026 closes soon! Join us for interdisciplinary conversations on: ➤ AI governance ➤ platform accountability ➤ online harms ➤ and other key #TrustAndSafety issues Register by July 15 for reduced pricing! 🎟️ stanford.io/3SgrmWl

The Trust & Safety Research Conference is more than a conference. #TSRConf is a global space where people working across research, practice, policy, and journalism come together to learn from one another and broaden how we understand #TrustAndSafety across different regional contexts.

We are thrilled to announce Crystal Abidin as one of our keynote speakers for #TSRConf 2026! A professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University, Crystal is an anthropologist of vernacular internet cultures, focusing on internet celebrity and social media pop cultures in the Asia Pacific region.

We are thrilled to announce @dgrand.bsky.social as one of our keynote speakers for #TSRConf 2026! David is a professor at Cornell University, where his research draws on computational social science and cognitive science to understand how people form beliefs and decide what to share online.

"AI platforms have the potential to create a completely different economic model by the incentive being: Is this useful for you?" TIP Center Director Jeff Hancock spoke with @npr.org about #AI subscriptions and the potential shift to an advertisement model, as social media platforms have done.

What do you actually get when you pay for AI?

Just 3% of U.S. households pay for AI for personal use. Sign ups are growing — even though Americans have subscription fatigue.

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In an evolving digital world, how can parents help their children avoid harms, mitigate risks, and develop safe and healthy online habits? The new Parent's Guide to #DigitalSafety from @famonlinesafety.bsky.social, California Partners Project, and our Stanford Social Media Lab is here to help!

A Parent’s Guide to Digital Safety

Created in partnership with the Stanford University Social Media Lab & California Partner’s Project, this guidebook is written specifically for parents of teens and preteens who are using, or consider...

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Registration is now open for #TSRConf 2026! Join us at Stanford University for conversations on platform accountability, #AI governance, online harms, transparency, and digital policy. Sign up by July 15 for early-bird pricing! 🔗 stanford.io/3SgrmWl #TrustAndSafety #OnlineSafety

The Trust & Safety Research Conference brings together people working on some of the most important questions in online #TrustAndSafety. From emerging research to real-world platform #governance challenges, #TSRConf creates space for interdisciplinary exchange and practical conversation.

What would it look like to bring #governance to #blockchain — a technology deliberately engineered to resist the intermediaries and territorial anchors on which #regulation depends?

🚨 Less than one week left to submit your commentary! 🚨 #JOTS invites commentary submissions for the Conference Proceedings Issue—offering authors the opportunity to present their work at #TSRConf and share their research with a broad audience of #TrustAndSafety professionals and academics.

Join us on May 26 for the final talk in our #SpringSeminarSeries, featuring Ying Xu of @harvardeducation.bsky.social. Xu will explore the role and impact of #AI on children’s cognitive and social development, including how children interact with, perceive, and learn from AI systems. RSVP ⤵️

Ying Xu | AI and the Developing Child: Myths, Evidence, and Open Questions

AI and the Developing Child: Myths, Evidence, and Open Questions

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What makes #TSRConf valuable? For many attendees, it’s the chance to connect across disciplines, sectors, and perspectives. For Laura McLester, Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, it was the lightning talks presentations. #TrustAndSafety #OnlineSafety #TechPolicy

Coming up today at 12PM PT — join us!

Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How is digital technology reshaping modern #morality? Join us on Tuesday, May 19 for a seminar with @jayvanbavel.bsky.social to explore how today's moral ecosystem—driven by the attention economy—is often mismatched with our evolved adaptations for social living. Join us online or at Stanford! ⤵️

How is digital technology reshaping modern #morality? Join us on Tuesday, May 19 for a seminar with @jayvanbavel.bsky.social to explore how today's moral ecosystem—driven by the attention economy—is often mismatched with our evolved adaptations for social living. Join us online or at Stanford! ⤵️

Jay Van Bavel | Morality in the Anthropocene

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OwO Whats this? 📣 NEW PAPER DROPPED 📣 The wait is over and the embargo has lifted! Im so happy to announce I’ve been published in The Journal of Online Trust and Safety (JoTS) Spring 2026 “The Report Button is Just for Decoration” Moderation Practices and Needs of YouTube Creators

Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New in the Spring 2026 issue of #JOTS, a study by Victoria Zhong, Meghna Nair, Susan McGregor, Damon McCoy, and Rachel Greenstadt draws on interviews with 19 #YouTube #ContentCreators to identify #ContentModeration practices and needs for creators on the platform. 🔗 bit.ly/4dHj3v4

Could bad actors game #SocialProof metrics to induce the use of malign #software? New in #JOTS, a study by Lucas Shen, @soodoku.bsky.social, and @danweitzel.net draws on two field experiments on the largest developer platform, #GitHub, to examine the impact of social proof on developer adoption.

What does #TrustAndSafety look like in #XR? Out now in #JOTS, a new study by Dennis Redeker, Nikolas Pfannenschmidt, Manuel Baron Romero, Gabriel Durán, and Ana Sofia Villa Hernandez examines how Social #ExtendedReality platforms govern the unique risks presented by embodied, immersive interaction.

New in the Spring 2026 issue of #JOTS, a study by Victoria Zhong, Meghna Nair, Susan McGregor, Damon McCoy, and Rachel Greenstadt draws on interviews with 19 #YouTube #ContentCreators to identify #ContentModeration practices and needs for creators on the platform. 🔗 bit.ly/4dHj3v4

As adolescence becomes increasingly #digital, what happens to youth social life when the outside world contracts? Join us on Tuesday, May 12 for a seminar exploring how young people navigate #belonging amid shrinking real-world options. RSVP to attend in person at Stanford or online!

Jennifer Heifferon & Alanna Powers-O'Brien |Belonging in a Digital Age

Belonging in a Digital Age: Teens, Tech, & Third Places

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New in the Spring 2026 issue of #JOTS, a study by Kelly Barker, Katelin Neufeld, Jacques Marcoux, and Oleksandr Podprugin shares findings on how offenders exploit file hosts for child sexual abuse material and child sexual exploitation material (CSAM/CSEM) distribution purposes. #TrustAndSafety

Out now in the #JOTS Spring 2026 issue, a new study by Toby Shulruff and Amanda Menking draws on interviews with platform-side #TrustAndSafety (T&S) professionals to understand the stressors of T&S work, and T&S professionals’ motivations, skills, and strategies for managing wellbeing.