Journal of Online Trust and Safety

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2026)
Published April 29, 2026
The Twelfth Issue

The Spring 2026 issue of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety features seven peer-reviewed articles spanning a range of topics, including content moderation effectiveness for protecting young users on video-sharing platforms, public attitudes toward misinformation interventions, offender tactics for distributing child sexual abuse material on file-hosting services, and the moderation experiences of YouTube creators. The issue also extends trust and safety scholarship into emerging terrain, with work on content moderation in social XR environments, the role of emotion as a professional asset in T&S work, and an empirical test of social proof effects on software downloads.

The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is grateful to the Omidyar Network for their generous support.

Peer-reviewed Articles

Fatmaelzahraa Eltaher, Rahul Krishna Gajula, Luis Miralles-Pechuán, Patrick Crotty, Juan Martínez-Otero , Christina Thorpe, Susan Mckeever
Protecting Young Users on Social Media: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Content Moderation and Legal Safeguards on Video-Sharing Platforms
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Catherine King, Samantha Phillips, Kathleen Carley
Public Support for Misinformation Interventions Depends On Perceived Fairness, Effectiveness, and Intrusiveness
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Toby Shulruff, Amanda Menking
“I Tend to Run to Problems That People Run Away From”: Emotion as an Essential Asset in Trust and Safety Work
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Kelly Barker, Katelin H.S. Neufeld, Jacques Marcoux, Oleksandr Podprugin
Uncovering and Overcoming Offender Tactics for Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material on File-Hosting Services
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Victoria Zhong, Meghna Nair, Susan McGregor, Damon McCoy, Rachel Greenstadt
“The Report Button is Just for Decoration”: Moderation Practices and Needs of YouTube Creators
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Dennis Redeker, Nikolas Pfannenschmidt, Manuel Baron Romero, Gabriel Durán, Ana Sofia Villa Hernandez
Trust and Safety in Social XR: Mapping the Spatial Turn in Content Moderation
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Lucas Shen, Gaurav Sood, Daniel Weitzel
Social Proof is in the Pudding: The (Non)-Impact of Social Proof on Software Downloads
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