Trust Lab was founded by a team of well-credentialed Big Tech alumni who came together in 2021 with a mission: Make online content moderation more transparent, accountable, and trustworthy. A year later, the company announced a “strategic partnership” with the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel. The partnership is light on details, stating that Trust Lab will work on “a long-term project that will help identify harmful content and actors in order to safeguard the internet” It has not explained what sort of “harmful actors” Trust Lab might help the intelligence community “prevent” from spreading online content, as the company said. The company appears to be in the business of. . . .
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