Trust and Safety Research Conference 2025

Thank you for attending the 4th annual Trust & Safety Research Conference! We are grateful to all the attendees that made it such a success this year, and for all the conversations between academic researchers, industry practitioners and representatives from civil society.

We were also fortunate to have many policymakers and regulators concerned with trust and safety from around the globe visiting the campus to attend TSRC. On the night before the Conference began, we invited some of these policymakers and conference attendees from academia and industry to a dinner to have an informal roundtable conversation about topics related to social media trust and safety. 

The dinner conversation ranged from discussions about upcoming regulations, like the Social Media Minimum Age act in Australia to school phone bans in the US and other countries. An important focus was on measuring and mitigating harms against young people, with an emphasis on how best to rigorously research the effects of various policies (such as limiting Internet access or phone use by adolescents) on the safety and well-being of children, adolescents and their families.

Given the current worldwide conversation around protecting young people from potential harms from social media, this important discussion revealed the many different ways that countries are approaching the problem, including how to evaluate and understand both the intended and unintended consequences of different policy approaches. Our report from the event is forthcoming.

We'll be announcing the dates and deadlines for the 5th annual TSRC in the new year - stay tuned!