Best Practices for Developing & Launching Content Policies for your Platform
Announcing a New Resource: Best Practices for Developing & Launching Content Policies for your Platform
Integrity Institute is proud to announce a new member-created white paper on Best Practices for Developing & Launching Content Policies for your Platform. In this resource, the authors share their experience from platforms like Google, Meta, TikTok, Grindr, and Discord on the policy creation process., and specifically 6 key elements for launching platform policies
Research and Development
Getting cross-functional buy-in
Training content moderators
Training machine-learning (ML) models
Launching your policy
Quality assurance and post-launch reporting
The authors note that this resource applies across the board for different social platforms: “Whether you’re working for a start-up and are a small but mighty policy team of one, or you’re in Big Tech and are part of a team focused on a specific area of safety policy, or you’re transitioning into a new role within policy, we hope this will be a useful guide.”
About the Authors
This white paper was carefully crafted by the following Integrity Institute members, each of whom have experience in policy creation, implementation, and enforcement across multiple social platforms: