🇳🇬 Nigerian researchers: Funding opportunity you may be eligible for!

Do you study online safety in non-Western countries? Apply for up to $15,000 for your research. cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/call-p…

I'm extremely honored and grateful to be a winner of the PWH Emerging Scholars Policy Prize, and I'm really excited to publish my policy essay on international efforts to combat ransomware in Foreign Affairs!

NEW: What is the relationship between the Russian government and ransomware groups? To test this, we created a dataset of 4,194 ransomware victims. We argue the Russian government maintains an informal cooperative relationship with Russia-based groups.
(Joint w/ Shelby Grossman)

📣 Registration is now open for the second annual Trust and Safety Research Conference! eventbrite.com/e/trust-and-sa……

Preliminary agenda: conferences.law.stanford.edu/tsrc/agenda/

New SIO report out today on self-generated child sexual abuse material (SG-CSAM). A tip from The Wall Street Journal led to an investigation revealing a large network of what appeared to be underage users producing, marketing and selling explicit content. 1/7

cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/news/addressin…

New: Twitter failed to prevent dozens of known images of child sexual abuse from being posted on its platform in recent months, according to researchers who said Twitter has since appeared to resolve the issue wsj.com/articles/twitt… via The Wall Street Journal

In the course of conducting a large investigation into online child exploitation, the Stanford Internet Observatory discovered serious failings with the child protection systems at Twitter. 1/6

👩🏽‍🏫Today the Trust & Safety Teaching Consortium released trust & safety teaching materials. Check them out: github.com/stanfordio/Tea…

New paper out in Nature by my colleague Ronald E Robertson!

We're releasing a public Trust & Safety curriculum tomorrow! Join the webinar below:

What are people using to send funds from the US to Nigeria these days? Wise doesn't seem to allow transfers to Nigeria anymore.

Happening tomorrow (Wednesday)! Get access to new teaching materials, and hear from Trust and Safety Teaching Consortium members Mariana Olaizola, Inbal Goldberger, Ina Kamenova, Alex Leavitt, PhD (they/them), Devika Malik, Michael R. Swenson, Amar Ashar, Tabea Wilke | @[email protected], and more!

I wish we were still working together! So excited about your research!

Our Spring 2023 issue is live! Check it out: tsjournal.org/index.php/jots

At 8am PST hear authors summarize their new research published in the Journal of Online Trust and Safety! The new issue just came out this morning. tsjournal.org/index.php/jots

Happening in 30 minutes!

So excited!

Register for the webinar next week - extremely cool research, including a paper that analyzes user reporting data, and lots of other neat stuff.