Online safety can be messy and nuanced, but it doesn’t mean our conversations about it need to be that way as well.
Welcome to Safety is [REDACTED], a podcast that features content experts, technology experts, and researchers who are doing the work to create healthy online spaces. When it comes to improving online spaces, it takes all of us.
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Safety Is [Redacted] with Rachel Kowert | Side Quests: Games for Change, Frameworks & the Fight for Physical Media
What does a healthy gaming community actually look like, and can you measure it?
In the first episode of Side Quests, our recurring gaming series, I sit down with Rachel Kowert fresh off Games for Change in New York. We dig into what's moving in gaming right now: community health frameworks, the slow death of physical media, industry layoffs hitting safety and accessibility teams, and why the future of games is social.
We also get into Rachel's framework era (EFFECT, reporting categories, and the CHEER model for measuring community health), what actually makes a code of conduct work, and a preview of the Digital Thriving Summit in Helsinki.
0:00 Cold open
2:30 Games for Change recap
6:00 Raising Good Gamers and the parent white paper
13:50 Rachel's framework era: AFFECT, reporting categories, CHEER
19:20 The CHEER model explained
26:00 The end of physical media
32:00 Industry layoffs and safety teams
34:30 AI and the future of work in games
36:30 Helsinki Digital Thriving Summit
37:50 Rachel's DLC Leadership Program
Links:
Raising Good Gamers: raisinggoodgamers.org
DLC Leadership Program: https://dlcleadership.org/
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16 Jul 2026
Transparency Is More Than a Blog Post with Cassie Coccaro
Cassie Coccaro, head of communications at Thorn, joins Matt to unpack why "we take safety seriously" isn't transparency, how to spot performative safety PR, and how to tell trust and safety stories without making practitioners the target. The best safety work is invisible: the harm that never happened, the content you never saw. Cassie and Matt dig into how platforms can prove a negative, what a genuinely good transparency report looks like, and why suspiciously timed safety announcements are a red flag. Plus, lessons from TikTok's earliest transparency reports and why brand safety might be the business case that finally gets trust and safety the resources it deserves.
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6 May 2026
Building the Safest Place to Stream, with Christine Weber, CTO, Twitch
This week, I sit down with Christine Weber, CTO of Twitch, to talk about what it takes to build safety at scale for live streaming. Christine walks through how Twitch approaches moderation across millions of live streams every month, the creator-first tools like Shield Mode and AutoMod that put real control in streamers' hands, and why Twitch has deliberately kept humans in the loop with AI. She also gets into how creator feedback shapes the product, how Twitch thinks about regulation as a starting point rather than a finish line, and what it means to plant a flag and say you're building the safest place to stream on the internet.
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