Yoel Roth, former Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter provides first-hand insights into how one of the largest online platforms in the world built out its trust and safety operations and its struggles ensuring the platform was helpful, harmless, and aligned with user expectations.
While at Twitter, Roth found himself the target of a coordinated harassment campaign on the platform, one instigated by the CEO Elon Musk. His years building out the trust and safety operations had become personal.
In this TechMinute, highlighting the full episode, Roth provides professional and personal perspectives on the real benefits and risks of platform trust and safety efforts, the current state-of-the-art of the field, and where it’s going.
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15 янв 2024
