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Rob Leathern

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Rob Leathern

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Jun 6, 2025

The Friday Online Trust Update

My quick opinions on Trust, Identity, Privacy & Safety news

The Friday Online Trust Update

Rob Leathern

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Dec 26, 2024

Holiday Scam Avoidance Tips Part 2

From a friend in the UK - stay safe this season!

Holiday Scam Avoidance Tips Part 2

Rob Leathern

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May 28, 2024

Summary of “The Elevation of ‘Trust’”

Rob’s latest blog asks why confidence in institutions is so low.

Rob Leathern

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Nov 28, 2023

Why is Elon Musk Promoting this product?

Actually, he’s not. It’s a deepfake video being used to promote an investment scam.

Why is Elon Musk Promoting this product?

Rob Leathern

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Mar 15, 2023

An Example of How OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 Sometimes Produce Quite Different Results

Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve heard of ChatGPT

An Example of How OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 Sometimes Produce Quite Different Results

Rob Leathern

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Sep 9, 2020

Verifying Advertisers on Facebook & Instagram

Over the past few months, people have asked me about Facebook’s advertiser verification process: who we verify, how we do it, and where…

Verifying Advertisers on Facebook & Instagram

Rob Leathern

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May 29, 2017

“The transformation is everybody’s job”

If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.

“The transformation is everybody’s job”

Rob Leathern

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Feb 1, 2017

Why we sold Optimal’s technology to Sovrn

My first company was also called Optimal (after we first called it XA.net, that is). My cofounders and I started THE NEW Optimal with the…

Why we sold Optimal’s technology to Sovrn

Rob Leathern

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Jan 12, 2017

Moving Back to the SF Bay Area

I’m starting a new role at Facebook in February

Moving Back to the SF Bay Area

Rob Leathern

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Nov 22, 2016

Headlines Count As Much As Articles Do!

Why we should delete tweets if an article title is corrected

Headlines Count As Much As Articles Do!

Rob Leathern

Rob Leathern

17.6K followers

Building software across trust, identity, privacy and safety. I spent 6 years fixing things at Google and Facebook/Meta.

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