“I … can't ignore that so many things are not getting better,” said Willner, who previously built the first safety operations team at Facebook. “So often in past years, perhaps we felt alone in our work — but at least there was some kind of backstop. Surely even if some individual companies or business leaders made questionable choices — like making Grok AI — for kids! — the broader system would still hold. Surely our democratic institutions would prevent the worst imagined outcomes. Surely there were guardrails we could count on. Instead — we've watched norms and institutions we thought were solid prove to be more fragile than we could ever have imagined.” Trust & safety is shrinking in influence just when online harms are ramping up—and the industry’s stewards are staying silent. We’re at a moment where collective insistence on ethical standards may be the only thing standing between platforms and collapse into compliance-only moderation. https://www.platformer.ne..