Our expert this month is ex-FBIer Andrew Johnston. Andrew is the CEO and co-founder of Recluse Laboratories. Drawing on twelve years of experience in cybersecurity, Andrew has worked with clients both in an incident response capacity as well as in proactive services. …

We are extremely pleased to have had the chance to pick the brain of Ben Greenstone regarding the upcoming Online Safety Bill, which is new legislation making its way through Parliament in the U.K. Ben is the founder and Managing Director of Taso Advisory, a public policy consultancy with a…

We recently spoke with Checkstep’s newest addition to the team, Yu-Lan Scholliers. She joins Checkstep from her recent position at Facebook where she was a Trust and Safety Specialist. She joins Checkstep as the Head of Operations. …

Our featured expert this month is someone who has been working hard to keep people safe online. Manpreet Singh is a Trust and Safety professional working in London, UK. She has developed her interest in Child Online Safety and Tech Policy through a myriad of experiences, including working as a…

“The efforts to downplay and deny what happened are an attempt to brazenly recast reality itself.” — After twelve months of hard work debunking hundreds of misleading and false claims, the good folks at Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact take a moment out of their normal schedule to award the Lie of the Year, and for 2021 that dubious honor goes to, “​​the collective attempts to downplay and deny…

This month we were very happy to sit down with one of the brains behind Checkstep who is also a recognized talent among European academics. She is the co-head of research at Checkstep and also an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen. She currently holds a prestigious DFF Sapere…

Wondering what all the fuss is around the Facebook Papers? Get the lowdown here. — A large trove of recently leaked documents from Meta/Facebook promises to keep the social platform in the news, and in hot water, for some time to come. While other recent “Paper” investigations (think Panama and Paradise) have revealed fraud, tax evasion, and all manner of wrongdoing, it’s not clear that…

Checkstep interviews expert in online community building — Todd Nilson leads transformational technology projects for major brands and organizations. He specializes in online communities, digital workplaces, social listening analysis, competitive intelligence, game thinking, employer branding, and virtual collaboration. Todd has managed teams and engagements with national and global consultancy firms specialized in online communities and the social psychology…

This month’s expert is Checkstep’s CEO and Co-Founder Guillaume Bouchard. After exiting his previous company, Bloomsbury AI to Facebook, he’s on a mission to better prepare online platforms against all types of online harm. He has a PhD in applied mathematics and machine learning from INRIA, France. 12 years of…