Vol. 1 No. 4 (2022)

This issue of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety, which serves as conference proceedings for the Trust and Safety Research Conference, brings together new research, including: a paper interviewing older adults, finding older adults distrust the news they see, but continue to engage with it; a study of online civility on Nextdoor that prompted users to move their posts to smaller groups, finding that comments within those groups were less frequently reported than neighborhood-wide posts; a survey of parents’ perceptions of their children sharing sexually explicit imagery, with data on when parents are most likely to communicate with their children about this issue; a paper auditing Google's search results by gathering hundreds of thousands of news headline results, finding that headlines for video content contained disproportionate amounts of content delegitimizing the 2020 U.S. election; a review of how synthetic media is created, used and misused, and how it can be identified; and a paper assessing the characteristics of audiences who engage with different types of media about the Syria Civil Defence. The issue also includes three commentaries: a commentary from Zoom staff on practical lessons learned from building a trust and safety team; a commentary examining recent legislation and guidance in Europe on researcher access to platform data; and a commentary from Meta staff on how the company engaged with academics and civil society to develop COVID-19 misinformation policies.