February 24, 2025 | Confluence Blog, Events
This past October, the Global Network Initiative (GNI) and the Trust and Safety Foundation (TSF) jointly hosted a virtual workshop “Engaging Trust & Safety and Human Rights Practitioners on Rights-Respecting Responses to Government Demands” to explore engagement across these two fields, in the context of how social media companies can respond to government demands while respecting user rights.
The workshop set out to understand the shared goals and objectives between the trust & safety and human rights fields, as well as differences in approaches, guiding principles, and understanding of effectiveness, all in the context of responding to government demands.
Today, GNI and TSF are publishing a high-level summary report from that workshop, alongside the hypothetical tabletop exercise that we used to guide the conversation. The report summarizes key takeaways, which could be fruitful for further discussion by the participating organizations and the field at large. The tabletop exercise offers a structure to host similar conversations and build on this work. GNI and TSF look forward to continuing these conversations. We are keen to hear your ideas on questions, approaches, and outputs to explore ways to continue to foster productive conversations across the human rights and trust and safety fields. Please reach out to our organizations with any questions or ideas.