Build vs Buy: When Does It Make Sense?

Best Content Moderation Companies, Tools and Software (2026)

The content moderation market reaches $13.31 billion in 2026 and is on track for $26.09 billion by 2...

6 mins

London Trust & Safety Meet Up Hosted by Checkstep

​Join us on Wednesday 23rd September 2026 in Farringdon, London, for an Online Trust & Safety meet-u...

[Webinar] Prove it, Don’t Promise it: DSA & Online Safety Act Readiness for 2027

Regulators aren't asking platforms to make promises about how safe they are anymore - they're asking...

Meet Georgio Anastasi, Checkstep's new COO/CFO

A couple of months ago, Georgio Anastasi joined Checkstep as our Chief Operating Officer and Chief F...

7 mins

DSA Compliance Isn't Optional Anymore: A Checklist for Online Marketplaces

Three fines in 8 months, each one bigger than the last. Digital Services Act (DSA) enforcement has m...

8 mins

Content Moderation: A Practical Guide for Platform Operators

On 5 December 2025, the European Commission issued its first fine under the Digital Services Ac...

19 mins

What is Trust and Safety?

Americans reported losing $2.1 billion to scams that started on social media in 2025, according...

11 mins

User Languages and the Digital Services Act: Important principles and painful tracking

Very large online platforms (VLOPs) completed the required ‘harmonised’ reporting template for trans...

23 mins

JustGiving Exclusive: The Balancing Act of AI and Human Moderation

Context is important, especially in Trust & Safety.In this exclusive interview with JustGiving, ...

5 mins

Who Watches the (Automated) Watchmen?

Spoiler: it's not more automation.Last week Meta laid off some more people I used to work with, spec...

7 mins

My CEO Thinks The Under-16 Social Media Ban is Right. I Don't.

Like many of my colleagues in Trust & Safety, I've spent the weeks since the UK announced its un...

11 mins

[Webinar] Moderating with Empathy at JustGiving

How JustGiving Balances AI and Human Judgement at Scale Join us on 8th July at 4pm BST for an excl...

An Interview with Checkstep's VP Trust & Safety, Deniz Atabey Alkan

Trust & Safety is one of those disciplines where the stakes are high, but the work is rarely vis...

13 mins

Why Most Platforms Get the AI-Human Moderation Balance Wrong

And what it actually takes to get it right - across confidence thresholds, policy design, human work...

12 mins

[Webinar] Designing Moderation Systems That Actually Work

Balancing AI and human oversight at scale Join us on 21st May at 4pm BST when we’ll break down wha...