Safety is [REDACTED]

Online safety can be messy and nuanced, but it doesn’t mean our conversations about it need to be that way as well. Welcome to Safety is [REDACTED], a podcast that features content experts, technology experts, and researchers who are doing the work to create healthy online spaces. When it comes to improving online spaces, it takes all of us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Safety is [REDACTED] is a technology podcast hosted by Matthew Soeth, with 40 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Matthew Soeth hosts Safety is [REDACTED], a technology show with 40 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  Safety Is [Redacted] with Rachel Kowert | Side Quests: Games for Change, Frameworks & the Fight for Physical Media

  Aug 6, 202642 minS3

  What does a healthy gaming community actually look like, and can you measure it? In the first episode of Side Quests, our recurring gaming series, I sit down with Rachel Kowert fresh off Games for Change in New York. We dig into what's moving in gaming right now: community health frameworks, the slow death of physical media, industry layoffs hitting safety and accessibility teams, and why the future of games is social. We also get into Rachel's framework era (EFFECT, reporting categories, and the CHEER model for measuring community health), what actually makes a code of conduct work, and a preview of the Digital Thriving Summit in Helsinki. 0:00 Cold open 2:30 Games for Change recap 6:00 Raising Good Gamers and the parent white paper 13:50 Rachel's framework era: AFFECT, reporting categories, CHEER 19:20 The CHEER model explained 26:00 The end of physical media 32:00 Industry layoffs and safety teams 34:30 AI and the future of work in games 36:30 Helsinki Digital Thriving Summit 37:50 Rachel's DLC Leadership Program Links: Raising Good Gamers: raisinggoodgamers.org DLC Leadership Program: https://dlcleadership.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #5

  Transparency Is More Than a Blog Post with Cassie Coccaro

  Jul 16, 202632 minS3

  Cassie Coccaro, head of communications at Thorn, joins Matt to unpack why "we take safety seriously" isn't transparency, how to spot performative safety PR, and how to tell trust and safety stories without making practitioners the target. The best safety work is invisible: the harm that never happened, the content you never saw. Cassie and Matt dig into how platforms can prove a negative, what a genuinely good transparency report looks like, and why suspiciously timed safety announcements are a red flag. Plus, lessons from TikTok's earliest transparency reports and why brand safety might be the business case that finally gets trust and safety the resources it deserves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #4

  Building the Safest Place to Stream, with Christine Weber, CTO, Twitch

  May 6, 202636 minS3

  This week, I sit down with Christine Weber, CTO of Twitch, to talk about what it takes to build safety at scale for live streaming. Christine walks through how Twitch approaches moderation across millions of live streams every month, the creator-first tools like Shield Mode and AutoMod that put real control in streamers' hands, and why Twitch has deliberately kept humans in the loop with AI. She also gets into how creator feedback shapes the product, how Twitch thinks about regulation as a starting point rather than a finish line, and what it means to plant a flag and say...

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  Episode #3

  Safety, Thriving, and the Future of Gaming with Rob Lewington

  Apr 14, 202641 minS3

  This week I am joined by Rob Lewington, SVP of Trust and Safety at TP. We dig into what it actually means for players to thrive in games, why safety is a prerequisite and not a tradeoff, and how the structural design advantages of games give builders more room to shape healthy communities than purely social platforms ever could. They also dig into how to measure community health beyond operational inputs, what it looks like to recognize companies doing innovative safety work, and why building that kind of industry infrastructure matters for the field's long-term growth.<p > Hosted on Acast...

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  Episode #2

  Won't You Be My Partner? Hill Stark, Checkstep

  Feb 26, 202628 minS3

  <p>Should you build your trust & safety stack in-house or partner with a provider? Matt and Hill Stark break down how to make the call—covering partner fit, testing with your own data, policy-specific moderation, and the real cost of building and maintaining a safety program internally.</p><p><br></p><p > Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.</p>

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