Nudes. Suggestive videos. You name it – children are sharing it. Whether they’re sharing their own images or forwarding them from others, it’s important that we talk about the risks. Download our How to Talk guide for top tips on how to get the conversation started: www.thinkbeforeyoushare.org.

For me, the most telling thing about the Australia ban in particular is that the government communication to teenagers about it includes significant amounts of crisis response and suicide prevention information. Because the government knows they're yanking a lifeline out from under a lot of people.

Counterpoint: don’t

Here's a link to a non-paywalled copy of the story from Reuters bsky.app/profile/soci...

If you were a tech company employee who moderated content overseas — say, trying to prevent a repeat of the Myanmar genocide! or maybe policing CSAM! Or hate speech illegal in your country! — you are a “censor” under the definitions of the Republicans in power. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

More nonsense. X faces liability under the 🇪🇺 Digital Services Act for (1) deceiving users by selling blue ✔️ for "verified" users (2) inadequate ad transparency, and (3) researcher access to data. The Commission has not moved past investigating how X handles unlawful content or Community Notes... 🧵

Don't let anyone — not even the US Secretary of State — tell you that the European Commission's €120 million enforcement against Elon Musk’s X under the Digital Service Act is about censorship, writes Daphne Keller. It’s just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, she says.

New from me: It's high time for T&S leaders at big tech platforms to speak up. We need to hear the US-based VPs of T&S at Apple, Google, Meta, TikTok and other platforms say in one voice that content moderation is not censorship.

Content moderation is not censorship; platforms have a First Amendment right to set civility guidelines on their services. Fact-checking is not censorship; it is a type of counterspeech that Justice Brandeis would have favored. Online safety is not censorship; it prevents voices being silenced.

EU countries have finally agreed on a position on the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, three years after it was first proposed. We urge negotiators to swiftly extend the temporary derogation and allow tech companies to keep detecting #CSAM voluntarily. www.iwf.org.uk/news-media/s...

Images shared in confidence by young people are routinely being ‘leaked’. Some teens (mostly boys) are even engaging in ‘collecting’ behaviours of nude imagery. We must educate and protect our children in the digital world. Find out more at thinkbeforeyoushare.org/parents-and-...

Uffffff 🫠

Good fucking riddance to Character AI for kids: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/char...

Grateful to @jonathanvanian.bsky.social and colleagues at CNBC for centering victim/survivors in this deep dive on AI nudifiers.

A growing number of children face online harms ranging from blackmail with intimate videos to AI-generated sexual images. Yet a law proposed in Colombia to help protect the mental health of minors was blocked after lobbying by major tech companies, according to a team of Latin American journalists.

Thoughts & prayers go out to mods (no but seriously what a time!) 😭

I miss websites. BuzzFeed, MTV News, Jezebel, The Toast, Deadspin, Vice, all my message boards, food blogs, design blogs, general blogs, Livejournal. We didn’t know how good we had it.

Hi just a reminder that when something horrible and violent happens in the physical world, a LOT of people behind the scenes are making really difficult decisions (and yes, using tech tools that include AI). Mistakes can and will happen, and with the amount of mis/disinfo happening makes it worse.

This is terrifying & has led to doxxing of real & mostly trans people on that bird app.

“Meta’s immediate response was not to do the right thing but rather roll out new processes to manipulate control and erase data.” Whistleblowers keep surfacing because the company keeps recklessly endangering kids.

i do not think it can be overstated at this point that we do not know who killed charlie kirk or why they did it.

NYC based folks interested in a career in Trust & Safety should sign up quickly to this event on Oct. 15 at @cornelltech.bsky.social -- spots are running out. luma.com/uz1vk6xs

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

you cannot control what other people post. you can only control what you post.

Thoughts and prayers are with all the mods trying to keep our online spaces free of misinformation & violence today. Sigh.

Well done MediaLab trust & safety team for sending this CyberTip!

I have a guest post up at @techdirt.com about an AI CSAM reporting requirement in a bill called the STOP CSAM Act that’s pending in the Senate after passing the Judiciary Committee a couple months ago: www.techdirt.com/2025/08/12/a...

We’re proud to carry forward the legacy of Cove. Their work helped report 120K+ cases of child exploitation — and now their IP will live on as open source, stewarded by ROOST. Learn more about the announcement of our new tool “Coop” below: roost.tools/blog/roost-a... #TrustAndSafety #OpenSource

Satellite images show Israel building up forces for a possible ground invasion of Gaza, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Jen is asking some great questions here: www.techpolicy.press/what-openais...

Over 18 months, CDT studied content moderation in four low-resource languages—Maghrebi Arabic, Kiswahili, Tamil, and Quechua—across South Asia, North/East Africa, and South America. cdt.org/insights/con...

Wrote about how the UK's online age verification requirements are already proving to be a disaster (as UK regulators were clearly warned it would be) and how unhelpful the UK's response to this mess has been, including their tech minister saying anyone who complains supports predators.

How is this helping minor safety? Compliance nightmare for both platforms & performers.

Full occupation murdering thousands of innocent children to “retrieve 20 hostages” at least we can finally admit this was NEVER about hostages www.newsweek.com/israel-fully...

“The teachers reported the children looked neglected & showed all signs of child abuse but the reports led to no action.” So people did know, it was just not actioned on for years which is sadly too common.

Genocide can happen gradually, through systems and institutions, rather than only through direct killing. And it is this form, cumulative and infrastructural, that becomes clear when the destruction of Gaza’s medical system is closely examined." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

I should have brought a winter coat to San Fran because it is that cold in July.

If you believe all human beings are created b’tzelem Elohim, in God’s image, then you must speak up now against the daily atrocities in Gaza. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

If you’re looking for a place to do it, join @israelispeaceny on Sundays at 5pm in Union Sq – where we cry out for a ceasefire & the return of the hostages, hold up pictures of those killed in Gaza, read the words of hostage families, and pray for an end to starvation & war.

But they are the only Democracy in the Middle East!

My latest — The accusations of antisemitism against NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani have been some of the most appalling smears I’ve seen in my years covering politics. I wrote about the concerted attack, & pressure for American Jews to define a local political race through the lens of Israel:

There is always a past tweet…

"Trump has spent the last five months vowing that the Ukraine-Russia war would never have happened if he was president, vowing that the Israel-Gaza war would never have happened if he was president. And yet the reality is that not only has he not avoided war, but he’s plunged us into a new one."

What happened to the “no wars President”? This will have major ramifications.

When people support Andrew Cuomo, what they’re saying implicitly is that they don’t care about the women he’s already sexually harassed and retaliated against and they won’t care if he does it again. It’s a political stance that enables discrimination against women in government

Big Tech allies in Congress are trying to rush through a bill to BAN state consumer protections for AI – meaning no more state laws on AI CSAM, discrimination, or scams. Now, teachers, tech workers, advocacy groups and more are FIGHTING BACK with an open letter.

People actually do like a moderated timeline experience! #trustandsafety

Lord grant me, for just one day, the zero fuck level of a capybara in danger of becoming pelican brunch.

Good god. Meta is using their AI licensing deals with John Cena, Disney, and others to peddle sex chat bots to kids. Burn this company to the fucking ground. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...