The Cyber Policy Center (CPC) has announced that the Trust and Safety Teaching Consortium, a resource aimed at creating content that can be used to teach a variety of audiences about trust and safety, will now be co-led with Cornell Tech. The CPC is excited to work with Alexios Mantzarlis, Director of the Security, Trust, and Safety Initiative (SETS) at Cornell Tech, who has deep expertise in the field. 

The Consortium is a collaborative effort uniting academic researchers, industry professionals and nonprofit leaders with the aim of tackling some of the most pressing challenges in online safety. Available resources include reading modules, slide decks, recorded lectures, case studies, and classroom exercises—designed to support a wide range of audiences. 

Materials were launched early in 2023, and updated in late 2023 and 2024, with content addressing real-world issues such as harassment and hate speech, content moderation, government regulation, and terrorism and radicalization.  

“Having benefited from the Consortium’s work under Shelby Grossman for my own teaching, I’m really looking forward to paying it back and working with the community of Trust & Safety instructors to deepen and widen the presence of digital safety curricula in universities across the world.”

If you are an educator or T&S professional interested in contributing to the consortium, email am3368@cornell.edu and trustandsafetyjournal@stanford.edu with a brief description of your area of expertise and experience in T&S from an instructional perspective.

For more details and to explore available materials, visit the Trust & Safety Teaching Consortium website.