Members
Join our global community of 600+ top trust and safety experts and integrity professionals from 80+ platforms across 23 countries, who are shaping the future of responsible technology. Collaborate, share expertise, and drive meaningful change through research, programmatic activities, and policy influence.
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The Membership Experience, Make an Impact, Membership Criteria, FAQs
Membership Experience
The Integrity Institute is two things in one: a membership organization and a think tank. The think tank draws its credibility and insight from the lived experience of our members. And members gain access to a vibrant, intellectually engaged community — one that drives real accountability and thought leadership in the tech industry.
Members can participate in a range of programs, including:
Community Huddles— monthly conversations where members come together to learn, exchange ideas, and dive into timely topics shaping the Trust & Safety field.
Blog Posts— an opportunity for members to turn lived experience, expertise, or emerging questions into published work that contributes to the broader Trust & Safety field.
Speaking Opportunities & Connection Pathways— members can elevate their expertise and connect to conferences, panels, media opportunities, and policy conversations through the Institute.
Values & Oath Forums— members play an active role in guiding the Institute's direction through quarterly discussions focused on advancing our mission in accordance with the Integrity Oath.
Study Groups — monthly, member-led learning circles to explore Trust & Safety topics through short readings and guided discussion. Topics include AI, gender-based online violence, chatbots, and more.
Make an Impact
Membership at the Integrity Institute is more than access to a community — it's an opportunity to shape the field. Our members bring hard-won expertise from inside the platforms, and that knowledge should directly inform the people and institutions shaping technology’s impact on society.
Members can put that expertise to work in a number of ways: engaging directly with policymakers, NGOs, academia, and journalists; contributing to the Institute's blog, podcast, and research; and participating in programs such as Integrity Clinics, Trust & Safety Webinars, and member-led committees. When policymakers, advocates, or the press come to us for insight, it is our members who shape the response.
Member-Led Committees
For members who want a deeper leadership role, our committees offer a structured space to collaborate, lead, and drive impact. Each committee gives members a stronger voice in shaping the Institute's direction, programming, and priorities — and a place to grow as a leader in the Trust & Safety field.
Partnerships Committee — Cultivate strategic relationships, identify sponsors and donors, and help secure the resources that sustain our work — while expanding your own professional network.
Membership Committee — Shape the member experience from the inside. Help define membership criteria, design community initiatives, and ensure the Institute remains a place where practitioners want to be.
Programs Committee — Advance the Institute's research and programmatic work across areas including AI, youth safety, TFGBV, elections, and mis/disinformation. Co-author white papers, lead trainings, and build tools that move the field forward.
Communications Committee — Shape how the Institute speaks to the world. Lead narrative campaigns, develop messaging strategy, and create content that influences policy and practice.
We invite members to lend their expertise by joining the committee that best matches their interests and leadership goals.
Membership Criteria
The Integrity Institute welcomes applicants with at least 6 months of professional integrity experience for a social media platform or technology company. Members must agree to abide by our Integrity Institute Oath, Code of Conduct, and Policy on Confidentiality.
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Integrity work includes mitigating harmful content or behavior, and even hopefully making things better. This goes by many names, like anti-abuse, anti spam, responsible innovation, trust and safety, integrity, health, transparency, and so on. It involves problems like hate speech, harassment, hoaxes, scams, fake accounts, conflict, and so on. People who have or have had these kind of roles comprise our membership.
We can try to define it definitionally: Integrity, to us, is the practice and theory of proactively and structurally governing technologically mediated content and user-to-user contact, including harm mitigation and quality control of interactions, content, and actors. We care about ecosystems, “macroeconomics” of platforms, and abuse.
Our members are all Integrity workers, and they fit two criteria. First, they work, or worked, for companies that build or tweak platforms or protocols. Second, that work was specifically on integrity: mitigating or reducing harms on the platform, or ensuring and incentivizing better quality content and interaction.
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People are likely eligible for membership if they have substantial (usually 6 months or more) experience doing integrity work at a social platform or product. We define platforms as digital sites that enable user-to-user interactions. This includes but is not limited to:
social media
gaming platforms
dating apps
two-sided marketplaces
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You might be! We consider your whole career trajectory when assessing eligibility. If you have had at least 6 months of platform experience at some point in your career, you’re probably eligible to be a member. If you only have experience consulting for platforms, you unfortunately do not fit our criteria at this time. We’re happy to direct you to peer organizations that might scratch a similar itch for you, just email us!
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Membership is currently offered at no cost and it is a long term commitment. We accept applications on a rolling basis, so there is no cycle and set duration. Membership is a choose-your-own journey experience, with a mandatory onboarding session. You’ll experience nudges from us to participate in community calls, research working groups, and more.
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Yes, this is a community of online experts so naturally, we thrive in virtual spaces. We value in-person time though, and work to help you find members by you. Members organize IRL gatherings all the time.
FAQs
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