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This month we had the pleasure of interviewing Zara Ward, senior practitioner at the Revenge Porn Helpline. What is the Revenue Porn Helpline? The Revenge Porn Helpline (RPH) is a part of the South West Grid for Learning charity and is a practical support service for adult (18+) victims in the UK who have been experiencing intimate image…

Content moderation for dating sites

Jeremy Gottschalk is an expert in risk management and legal strategy for marketplace tech companies. With nearly 20 years of experience as a lawyer, operator and consultant to venture capitalists, founders and operators, he has become an industry-leading voice for legal strategy and risk management. Jeremy founded Marketplace Risk as an industry education, networking and knowledge-sharing platform for…

Author: Stephanie Borne, Digital transformation and innovation strategist/ change maker and Inclusivity champion. Background: Stephanie has worked for the UK’s most respected Organisations on Digital transformation and Digital communities, including ChildLine, The NSPCC, Plan International and Shelter. With growing concerns over digital safety, and incidents (too often fatal) of exposure to harmful content, how can we…

For this month’s Expert’s Corner we had the pleasure of interviewing Lauren Tharp from the Tech Coalition. The Tech Coalition is a global alliance of leading technology firms that have come together to combat online sexual abuse and exploitation of children. Because member companies have the same goals and face many of the same challenges,…

Andrew Bennett is a Policy Principal at Form Ventures, a U.K. VC fund investing in start-ups where regulation is a driver of success. Andrew’s expertise is in regulatory strategy, having worked across tech policy at the Tony Blair Institute and founded TxP, a network for people in tech and policy. How can online platforms keep up with…

Carolina Christofoletti is a Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) subject matter expert, with vast experience both in CSAM Intelligence and CSAM Trust & Safety. She currently leads the CSAM Blockchain Intelligence efforts at TRM Labs as part of the Threat Intelligence Team. Her career includes an extensive CSAM academic background starting in 2017 at University…

Two experts from NewsGuard explain their organization’s hands-on approach to dealing with misinformation For this month’s Expert’s Corner, we get to hear from two senior members of the venerable NewsGuard internet trust tool. Veena McCoole and Sarah Brandt both manage and facilitate partnerships at NewsGuard, an organization that provides online safety for brands, individual readers and…

Our expert this month is ex-FBIer Andrew Johnston. Andrew is the CEO and co-founder of Recluse Laboratories. Drawing on twelve years of experience in cybersecurity, Andrew has worked with clients both in an incident response capacity as well as in proactive services. In addition to his private sector work, at the Federal Bureau of Investigation,…

We are extremely pleased to have had the chance to pick the brain of Ben Greenstone regarding the upcoming Online Safety Bill, which is new legislation making its way through Parliament in the U.K. Ben is the founder and Managing Director of Taso Advisory, a public policy consultancy with a focus on technology. Before setting…