Platform Safety

Design choices, content moderation policies, and safety mechanisms that online platforms implement to prevent harmful uses including misinformation spread, coordinated abuse, disinformation campaigns, illegal content, and exploitation.

Related topics

• Platform governance — broader institutional and policy frameworks for platforms
• Content moderation — removal and suppression of harmful content
• Social Media Harms — documented harms of social media use
• Misinformation — false or misleading information on platforms
• Computational Propaganda — coordinated inauthentic behavior and disinformation