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trust and safety

trust and safety noun: the policies and practices ensuring that users can trust and feel safe while using a service or participating in an online community.

Noun

trust and safety (uncountable)

  1. (computer security, social media) The policies and practices ensuring that users can trust and feel safe while using a service or participating in an online community.
    • TikTok workers in Germany are holding strikes over mass layoffs of the company’s trust and safety team. The social media behemoth said it is planning to dismantle its entire Berlin moderation team, which removes harmful content from the platform, and outsource the work to artificial intelligence...2025 August 10, Dara Kerr, “TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    T&S

Synonyms of trust and safety

Questions about trust and safety

What does trust and safety mean?
Trust and safety means the policies and practices ensuring that users can trust and feel safe while using a service or participating in an online community.
What part of speech is trust and safety?
Trust and safety is a noun.

Words near trust and safety in the dictionary

  1. Trussonomics
  2. trusswork
  3. trust
  4. trust anchor
  5. trust anchors
  6. trust and safety
  7. trust capital
  8. trust deed
  9. trust deeds
  10. trust every man, but cut the cards
  11. trust everybody, but always cut the cards

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