Tim Bernard is a Trust and Safety professional
with an MBA from Cornell Tech and expertise in online content moderation and related policy issues.
He has written about trust and safety-related issues for Tech Policy Press and Unitary, including proposed legislation, policy operations, and the impact of social media on society. These articles have been widely read and shared, and have been cited in The Atlantic, Bloomberg’s Tech Daily and a Supreme Court amicus brief. He recently published a white paper on legislative approaches to online child safety for Daphne Keller at Stanford’s Program on Platform Regulation. He has been consulted by researchers for Google/Jigsaw, CNBC, new trust and safety startups, and a team at the University of Washington regarding content moderation and the trust and safety landscape.
Tim previously completed an MBA at Cornell Tech where he took a wide range of electives including social science and democracy perspectives on technology and social media; a multi-disciplinary class on privacy incorporating computer science, philosophy, and law; and an independent study on content moderation, established at his request, with a law professor who has published foundational papers on the subject.
He led the content moderation team for Seeking Alpha, where he had responsibility for associated policy, operations, and product, as well as other trust and safety issues. This involved working with moderators, engineers, and company executives dispersed across three continents, and conducting data analysis, designing and overseeing product improvements, training moderators and engaging directly with users.
Tim’s academic background in philosophy (BA (Hons), University of Bristol) and experience in the education sector has honed his abilities to analyze complex ideas, abstract their key components, and translate them into terms that are understandable and meaningful for varied audiences.
Tim is a member of the Trust and Safety Professional Association and the Integrity Institute, and a participant in the PhilMod discussion group.
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