Today, the @christchurchcall.bsky.social announced 2 new programs in their mission to prevent and counter violent extremism. ROOST is proud to be the builder partner for Elevate, their program on emerging technology and open source safety tools. Together, we can bridge civil society and tech!

If you're at the Trust & Safety Research Conference, check out the @roost.tools and @discord.com workshop on open source happening at 11:30am PT TODAY! Fisher Conference Center, Barnes/McDowell/Cranston #TSRConf #TrustAndSafety

Next week I'll work our other comment subtree into atmunge and benchmark things out. We're trying to see what it takes for some open weight trust & safety models to keep up with the @atproto.com firehose (i.e. and with a number of people around @roost.tools, there's a discord if you're interested)

Our youth are growing up in an age where AI shapes how we think, communicate, and make decisions. The guardrails protecting them must match pace. PJMF partner @roost.tools ensures our digital future is a safe place for generations to come: https://loom.ly/ISu4OyU

Catch ROOST's Head of Product, Juliet Shen, at this year's INHOPE Summit on October 14th. This event will explore the links between CSAM & broader criminal networks, & share tools to help combat this crisis. Learn more here: inhope.org/EN/inhope-su...

for anyone at the #ATProto_NYC, the @roost.tools Discord server can be joined here: discord.gg/5Csqnw2FSQ and Hasher-matcher-actioner is at github.com/facebook/Thr...

Join our Head of Product, @julietshen.bsky.social, in NYC at the Marketplace Risk 2025 conference. Her panel will explore how organizations can manage competing demands amidst an evolving Trust & Safety landscape. Learn more here: www.marketplacerisk.com/event-detail...

hello fellow skeeters, we have our initial draft Contribution flow up for discussion on Github. This will definitely evolve along the way, but we want to get community feedback and consistency across ROOST repos! github.com/roostorg/com...

🔒Advanced safety tools shouldn’t be locked behind high costs. ROOST and Discord recently shared that Osprey is coming soon. This open-source investigation tool, originally designed by Discord’s team, democratizes access to powerful safety capabilities. Learn more here: roost.tools/blog/roost-a...

ROOST is picking up speed, so we're looking for an experienced open source community manager and a communications manager to join the flock! 🐔 OSS Community Manager: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42... Communications Manager: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

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

#ICYMI: ROOST is at TrustCon 2025! We kicked off the conference with a keynote address from our CTO, Vinay Rao, who shared that a safer digital landscape can be achieved through increased awareness, community engagement and technological advancements. #TrustandSafety #TrustCon

New from our partner @roblox.com: RoGuard is now open source! RoGuard 1.0 is an open-source safety toolkit for developers and platforms. It’s a flexible framework for adding real-time safety guardrails to LLMs. Learn more about the full toolkit here: corp.roblox.com/newsroom/202...

Hope you caught ROOST CTO Vinay Rao's talk at #TrustCon this morning, talking about our newly announced tools and why he joined the team. Our whole team is thrilled to be at the conference this week and looking to connect!

🚨ROOST is announcing Coop and Osprey: two new, open-source online safety tools. ✅ Customizable ✅ Open source ✅ Trusted integrations A better way to handle online harm, built by people who get it. More here: roost.tools/blog/roost-a... #TrustandSafety

ROOST is excited to welcome two renowned open source and safety veterans to our leadership team! ‪ @annebdh.bsky.social‬ is our Chief Operating Officer and Vinay Rao is our Chief Technology Officer. Learn more about the full announcement here: roost.tools/blog/tech-ve... #Welcome #ROOST

Are YOU attending #TrustCon 2025? ROOST's Head of Product @julietshen.bsky.social will be participating in several sessions next week, including "Trust the Mods!" a workshop on best practices for content review systems on July 21st at 11:00 am PT. Learn more here: www.trustcon.net/event/0f932a...

“Small to medium tech companies are working hard just to have basic Trust and Safety...there’s a difference in reality when it comes to resourcing, team sizes, and ability,” ROOST's Juliet Shen told Platformocracy. @jbellack.bsky.social 🧩Read the full piece: www.platformocracy.com/p/reader-mai...

Thank you to all who participated in and attended our #UNOpenSourceWeek community-led side event this afternoon! We were thrilled to lead a candid discussion on the challenges and opportunities of building open-source software. #ROOSTTools #Opensource #AI

A big thanks to everyone who came out for ROOST’s informational happy hour event last night in Washington, DC! 🍸 We loved meeting folks from the policy, AI and open source communities. Learn more about what ROOST is doing to build resilient, online safety infrastructure. roost.tools

Thank you to Discord’s David Chia, Roblox’s Naren Koneru, Open AI’s Johanna Shelton & Eli Sugarman for hosting today's panel, “Building Open Infrastructure for Online Security” at the SCSP's AI+ Expo! Learn more about how ROOST is building online safety infrastructure for the AI era. roost.tools

We're celebrating 100 days! Since our launch in February, we’ve: 🟡 Built critical open source safety tools 🟡 Made real progress on CSAM detection tools 🟡 Grown our partner network 🟡 Formed our Technical Advisory Committee Read the full update in our blog below: roost.tools/blog/roost-s...

🚨TODAY: Hear experts from Discord, Roblox, and OpenAI on ROOST’s panel, "Building Open Infrastructure for Online Safety." Join us to learn how ROOST is building scalable, resilient & interoperable safety infrastructure for the #AI era. There's still time to register here! expo.scsp.ai/register/

we're a real rooster now

It's been a while since we posted so just popping in to say we're hard at work and writing code! More to come soon

Congrats to our friends at Roblox on their latest open source launch! Roblox understands that sharing AI safety advances benefits our entire industry. By supporting Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, and Japanese their voice model is even better. corp.roblox.com/newsroom/202...

Chris DiBona @cdibona.bsky.social Introduced us to @roost.tools - Robust Open Online Safety Tools Enhance Child Safety, Fight NCII and Violent Content, Provide core safety infrastructure and review workflow, reduce the engineering load on civil society orgs. #ATmosphereConf

I'm pretty excited for ROOST, and blending with bsky/atproto. I think the public firehose and microblogging modality are both high-stakes, and make for good out-of-box demos for this kind of system. there are also several modalities running on same proto, good to demo flexibility of systems

do geese roost #ATmosphereConf

TOOLS TOOLS TOOLS TOOLS TOOLS TOOLS SAFETY TOOLS FOR EVERYONE

@trav.page shouting out @cdibona.bsky.social and the Google summer of code program for getting him started in software development at #atmosphereconf

not the "non-sexual nudity" label 💀

@cdibona.bsky.social explaining @roost.tools 's goals and non-goals at #atmosphereconf

As @cdibona.bsky.social mentioned, we're looking for guidance on ATproto development and pilot testing as we develop tools with bluesky and others! Our goal is to build for everyone, AT Protocol and beyond 🚀 #ATmosphereConf and we're hiring!

The open source stuff that's out there, Hasher-Matcher-Actioner from Meta, is really good! There's just not a lot of it. @cdibona.bsky.social #AtmosphereConf cc @dcallies.bsky.social

We're excited to be at #ATmosphereConf represented by @cdibona.bsky.social! Lightning talk NOW ⚡

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/atprotocol.dev Introducing Roost: Robust Open Online Safety Tools. Christopher DiBona

ROOST sighted at #ATmosphereConf!

Hi bsky I'm hiring a TPM for @roost.tools! This person will coordinate our growing ecosystem of partners and community members, and organize various ongoing technical and non-technical projects. Email [email protected] if you have ~5 years of community management, pgm management, or TPM experience

Our (very new, very limited) GitHub is now linked on ROOST.tools, thanks for everyone's patience! We're a v small team but we have bigger things hatching soon 🐣

In an op-ed for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, IST Ecosystem Trust and Safety Associate Fatima Faisal Khan explains why the #TrustandSafety community needs @roost.tools, a newly launched non-profit open source tooling hub. 🔐 Read “ROOST Reminds Us Why Open Source Tools Matter:” bit.ly/4bxC9Bb

☁️+🐓

We know this is incomplete, and some might organize the tools differently. We want to hear from everyone on what it needs so we can add more (while we build our stuff) 🐣

*bird noises* We heard from many developers and organizations that even finding open source tools that can be used for online safety is a challenge. Our first baby step is putting together this curated list of awesome safety tools. We welcome contributions and feedback! github.com/roostorg/awe...

Earlier this month, Charlotte Bacchetta MIA '26 attended the AI Action Summit in Paris to take part in roundtable discussions and witness Professor @camillefrancois.bsky.social launch @roost.tools, a groundbreaking online safety initiative incubated at @columbiaigp.bsky.social. roost.tools

"ROOST aims to ensure that developers at all levels can implement best practices in safety." Whether your team is 👤,👥, or 🏢 sized... we aim to build safety tools for everyone. Thanks @commoncrawl.bsky.social, let's protect the shared resource of the internet! commoncrawl.org/blog/opening...

"I think they can build very, very strong tools. They have built super strong tools in the past. They know what goes into this." 🥹 thanks for the kind words, @mmasnick.bsky.social @benwhitelaw.bsky.social. Excited to build stuff that people can contribute to! www.buzzsprout.com/2315966/epis...

@compiler.news featured our head of Product, @julietshen.bsky.social in their latest newsletter: “Open-source tools are here to earn trust from the general public and policymakers so that everyone has a say in the online experience.” Read more about the AI summit: www.compiler.news/ai-action-ed...

From @columbiaigp.bsky.social: "By making robust safety tools accessible through open source, we’re creating a more pluralistic and secure digital future in the age of AI" @camillefrancois.bsky.social, President of ROOST and assoc. professor of practice at SIPA www.sipa.columbia.edu/news/columbi...