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The first Digital Services Act systemic risk assessment reports and audits of porn sites are published.

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I assume I don't have to tell anyone on this site to read Mike, but just in case: read Mike!

congrats!!!

Today is yet another reminder to always read @emptywheel.bsky.social

that is very complimentary but wrong! if it has anything to do with the actual law, i should not be trusted!

they are a VLOP, but i didn't check if they were in the report

no doubt recycling disinfo subpoena content here.

also, i think it's snap

People who don’t open the window when taking off, especially from SFO, are absolute psychopaths.

Panel discussion at TrustCon 2025

Day 2 at #TrustCon underway, with Kenya Fairley from Bumble reflecting on parallels between T&S and the movement against gender based violence.

Slide from trustcon keynote with T&S projects, podcasts, journals, etc

Very proud to have the Safe Framework (ISO/IEC 25388) on the #trustcon board of projects among so many other initiatives I greatly admire!

Love this, despite suspecting the extended bird metaphor is a ROOST op

Kudos to @charlottewillner.bsky.social for her opening speech at #trustcon calling out how the US government is making the role of trust & safety more dangerous... And how many people couldn't even come to the event because it's not safe to travel to the US.

Charlotte Wilner speaks at TrustCon

Charlotte Wilner speaks at TrustCon

#TrustCon2025 kicking off with a barn burner of a speech from @charlottewillner.bsky.social

This is what happens when you put 75 folks from VLOPSEs, academia, and civil society in a workshop for 2 days in Brussels to talk all things #digitalservicesact risk assessment and mitigation. They didn't stop being polite, but they did get real...

DTSP's Safe Framework, now a published standard, offers companies a flexible framework to create safer digital environments.

On the Ctrl-Alt-Speech, @davidsullivan.bsky.social discusses how it helps companies align with global standards.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=znO-...

Always a pleasure to speak to @mmasnick.bsky.social about all things trust and safety, but particularly pleased to share the news about ISO/IEC 25389 with trust and safety pros the week before #TrustCon2025!

The UK Wants Us To Ask Your Age Before You Listen - Ctrl-Alt-Speech In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:a16z-Backed AI Site Civitai Is Mostly Porn, Despite Claiming Otherwise (404 ...

New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The UK Wants Us To Ask Your Age Before You Listen

This week, we talk about AI repositories struggling with people uploading models to generate non-consensual intimate imagery, and the mess that has caused...

podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...

Friday news dump arrived early this week!

Big news from us today: the DTSP Safe Framework is now an ISO standard for #trustandsafety!

Joint press release: Commission presents guidelines and age verification app prototype for a safer online space for children Today, the Commission has presented guidelines on the protection of minors, as well as a prototype of an age-verification app under the Digital Services Act (DSA)

"Today, the Commission has presented guidelines on the protection of minors, as well as a prototype of an age-verification app under the Digital Services Act (DSA) [..] The verification app will be tested and further customised" ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Hekka Virkunnen followed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt is not an #IGF2025 lineup I would have predicted...

Very large screen that says IGF Norway

#IGF2025 opening ceremony kicking off

I'm speaking at IGF 2025 Norway David Sullivan Generative AI & LLMs in Content Moderation: Rights & Risks 24 June 16:00 CEST (WS 3) Online Safety Standards and Regulation: Toward Coherent, Rights-Based Approaches 25 June 17:30 CEST (WS 3)

DTSP Executive Director @davidsullivan.bsky.social is at #IGF2025 in Norway, speaking on genAI in content moderation and co-hosting a side event on rights-respecting online safety standards and regulation.

Lufthansa Airbus a380 at a gate in Denver

I’m no aviation geek, but I am pretty excited to fly on this chonk plane today. #a380

“Let’s just do it and be legends, man.”

DTSP at the 2025 Internet Governance Forum - Digital Trust & Safety Partnership WASHINGTON, D.C.  — The Digital Trust & Safety Partnership (DTSP), a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at promoting a safer and more trustworthy internet, today welcomed Bitly as its newest partner.

Anyone heading to Oslo for #IGF2025 next week? Let's connect.

Here's what @dtspartnership.bsky.social will be up to, among other things...

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Brazil’s Supreme Court justices agree to make social media companies liable for user content The majority of justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users, in a landmark case for Latin America with implications for U.S...

I know there are many Brazilians on this platform. Rulings like this may mean that no one is willing to offer social media services in Brazil at all. It gets the equation exactly backwards. apnews.com/article/braz...