Online safety

Online safety encompasses policies, technologies, and governance mechanisms platforms and regulators use to protect users from harm in digital spaces. This includes content moderation, detection of exploitative practices (grooming, sextortion, scams), user privacy protection, and platform accountability.

Key papers

• Harm Is Behavioural, Moderation Is Lexical: How Language and Culture Decide Whom Automated Safety Systems Protect and Whom They Silence — Evaluates automated safety systems used for content moderation, showing they recognize harm by lexical form rather than behavioral function; demonstrates asymmetric protection across language communities and proposes evaluation protocol for measuring and closing those gaps.

Related topics

• Content moderation (platform governance and enforcement)
• Hate speech detection (one category of harmful content)
• Platform governance (regulatory and policy frameworks)