Australia slams Twitter (now X) for 80% cut in trust and safety engineers

Matt Cardy/Getty Images Australia has called out X, formerly Twitter, for slashing its online trust and safety resources and hindering its ability to respond to concerns about harmful content on its platform.  The Australian eSafety Commissioner released a transparency report detailing cuts the microblogging site made to its trust and safety teams since it was … Read more

After taking credibility hit, Carta backs away from its secondaries business: “We have decided to prioritize trust”

Roughly 72 hours after a prominent startup customer complained that Carta was misusing information with which it was entrusted — scaring many of Carta’s tens of thousands of other customers in the process — Carta is exiting the business that landed it in trouble with the customer. Carta co-founder and CEO Henry Ward posted on … Read more

Business success and growth is dependent upon trust, data, and AI

Richard Drury/Getty Images If you want your business to succeed in a world of AI, you’ll need to operate in a boundless manner. Boundless companies transcend the limits of traditional organizations and they are designed to achieve shared success, generating value for their customers, business partners, and communities, as well as for themselves and their employees.  This … Read more

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle not sure who to trust amid plummeting popularity

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle reportedly struggling with finding trustworthy friends Prince Harry, Meghan Markle not sure who to trust amid plummeting popularity Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been going through a hard time dealing with financial woes ever since their Spotify downfall. After losing the multimillion-dollar deal, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have … Read more

King Charles has trust concerns after inviting Harry and Meghan for Christmas?

King Charles has reportedly invited Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and their kids for Christmas King Charles has trust concerns after inviting Harry and Meghan for Christmas? Ever since it was reported that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has tried to mend his bond with King Charles by calling him on birthday, there are rumours the … Read more

Ex-Meta staffers sell trust and safety tech during Israel-Hamas war

People using their mobile phones outside the offices of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, in King’s Cross, London. Joshua Bratt | Pa Images | Getty Images Lauren Wagner knows a lot about disinformation. Heading into the 2020 U.S. presidential election, she worked at Facebook, focusing on information integrity and overseeing products designed … Read more

Big Tech Ditched Trust and Safety. Now Startups Are Selling It Back As a Service

The same is true of the AI systems that companies use to help flag potentially dangerous or abusive content. Platforms often use huge troves of data to build internal tools that help them streamline that process, says Louis-Victor de Franssu, cofounder of trust and safety platform Tremau. But many of these companies have to rely … Read more

The circular economy promises to remake retail. Why is it so hard to trust?

Thrifting is back, though this time it has a tech spin on it. An entirely new generation has discovered the pleasures of digging through other people’s discarded clothes in the hopes of finding the perfect piece. Hoping to cash in on the trend, companies have been embracing resale platforms, allowing them to capture some residual … Read more

Don’t trust the stock market rally, strategist warns

LONDON — Stocks are heading for a bumper week, but there are many reasons to be wary, one strategist warned on Friday. “In short, we don’t believe this rally,” Salman Ahmed, global head of macro and strategic asset allocation at Fidelity International, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe.” “We had a tough later part of summer, there … Read more

Cruise pauses all driverless robotaxi operations to ‘rebuild public trust’

Cruise said Thursday evening it has paused all driverless operations, a decision that comes just two days after the California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended Cruise’s deployment and driverless testing permits effectively ending its robotaxi operations in the state. The action means that driverless operations in Austin and Houston, where the company had started charging … Read more