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Leadership Advice for New Trust & Safety Leaders
Announcing a New Resource: Leadership Advice for New Trust & Safety Leaders

Build In Integrity: Best Practices for Start Ups and Early Stage Companies
No social media app wants to become known as a center for awful content. The reality is bad behavior and bad actors are inevitable on social media platforms. This resource provides companies facing these challenges guidance on how to address them early, build in integrity systems from the start, and get to a healthy platform growth cycle, which sets the company up for long-term success.

Elections Integrity Best Practices Guide: Defining and Achieving Success
Elections matter, and history has demonstrated online platforms will find themselves grappling with these challenges whether they want to be or not. This guide provides companies – large or small, established or new-on-the-block – concrete details as they fully implement an elections integrity program.

Defining and Achieving Success in Elections Integrity
Elections matter, and history has demonstrated online platforms will find themselves grappling with these challenges whether they want to be or not. This guide provides companies – large or small, established or new-on-the-block – concrete details as they fully implement an elections integrity program.

Best Practices for Developing & Launching Content Policies for your Platform
Announcing a New Resource: Best Practices for Developing & Launching Content Policies for your Platform

Shining a Light on Platform Transparency Best Practices
As a wave of new regulations and legislative proposals around transparency from social media platforms are being written all over the world, the Integrity Institute is releasing a new resource to provide a high-level overview of what platform transparency could look like and what it could accomplish.

Elections Integrity Best Practices Guide: Responsibly Supporting Elections on Online Platforms
With a wave of 65 elections across 54 countries coming in 2024, including a US presidential election, the Integrity Institute is releasing a new guide – the first in a planned series – on best practices for online companies to help better support healthy elections across platforms, particularly those who are newer or smaller.