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Research · Carnegie Endowment · March 2025

New Paradigms in Trust & Safety: Navigating Defederation

Co-authored with Yoel Roth, Renée DiResta, Kate Klonick, Mallory Knodel and Evan Prodromou — how governance, accountability, and moderation work across decentralized and federated social media.

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Platform Governance · February 2026

Why decentralized content moderation isn’t easier — it changes where power sits

Moving moderation onto an open protocol doesn’t make the hard calls disappear. It changes who holds the power to make them — and where accountability has to live.

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Trust & Safety · November 2025

Moderating With Humans, For Humans

“When I joined Bluesky, one of my first promises was that we would get things wrong.” On the impossible trade-offs every moderation system makes — and how Bluesky lives with them.

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Trust & Safety · October 2025

Context Collapse & Trust and Safety

Launching a series that goes deeper on Trust & Safety decisions than a microblog allows — starting with how context collapse distorts complex conversations.

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