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 indeed even democracies, eschewing algorithms in favor…

The Dark Side of NFTs 20–30–45–55–56. Recently, if you played those lottery numbers, you won 370 million dollars. After realizing you have the golden ticket, where would you keep it? Would you put it in your wallet, tuck it in your drawer, or sleep with it taped to your body? …

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…

We recently spoke with Checkstep’s newest addition to the team, Yu-Lan Scholliers. She joins Checkstep from her recent position at Facebook where she was a Trust and Safety Specialist. She joins Checkstep as the Head of Operations. …

Our featured expert this month is someone who has been working hard to keep people safe online. Manpreet Singh is a Trust and Safety professional working in London, UK. She has developed her interest in Child Online Safety and Tech Policy through a myriad of experiences, including working as a…

Broken hearts, broken bank accounts — Picture this, after swiping through thousands of profiles on a dating app, you finally come across this one perfect profile. He seems decent, well traveled and appears to live a good life. In that instance, you think, why not? And within a few seconds, it’s a “match”. …

Social media platforms are a powerful tool. The present, as we all know, is the age of social media platforms, but I’d refer to it as the age of doom. Sharing content in any format of your choice has become rather effortless. You don’t see people marching in a protest…

“The efforts to downplay and deny what happened are an attempt to brazenly recast reality itself.” — After twelve months of hard work debunking hundreds of misleading and false claims, the good folks at Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact take a moment out of their normal schedule to award the Lie of the Year, and for 2021 that dubious honor goes to, “​​the collective attempts to downplay and deny…

Whistleblowing as a principle dates back to the 7th century, when it was known as “qui tam” in medieval England. This primarily involved the general public bringing forth acts of corruption, theft and any potential illegal schemes to the King and getting rewarded a portion of the sum recovered in…