# What is Trust and Safety?

DevFeed: [What is Trust and Safety?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-is-trust-and-safety-20437.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://sift.com/blog/trust-and-safety/>)

Author: Ben Price

Published: 2026-08-28T23:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Sift Science](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/sift-science.md>)

Topics: [Security, Privacy and Abuse Prevention](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security-privacy-and-abuse-prevention.md>), [Transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transactions.md>), [account takeover](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/account-takeover.md>)

Tags: [account-takeover](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/account-takeover.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [chargebacks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chargebacks.md>), [digital-platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital-platforms.md>), [digital-trust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital-trust.md>), [digital-trust-safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital-trust-safety.md>), [fraud-detection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fraud-detection.md>), [fraud-prevention](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fraud-prevention.md>), [payment-fraud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/payment-fraud.md>), [trust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/trust.md>), [trust-and-safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/trust-and-safety.md>), [trust-safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/trust-safety.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains Trust and Safety as an organizational capability for protecting digital platforms, users, transactions, and interactions. It describes how the discipline brings together fraud prevention, content moderation, abuse prevention, and policy enforcement across the user journey, including payment fraud, fake account creation, account takeover, and content integrity.

## Source excerpt

Trust and Safety is the practice of protecting the integrity of digital platforms, their users, and the transactions and interactions that take place on them. As a discipline, trust and safety spans fraud prevention, content moderation, abuse prevention, and policy enforcement across the full user journey. For fraud teams and platform operators, it represents a [...] The post What is Trust and Safety? appeared first on Sift.