Learn Deepfake nudes are a harmful reality for youth: New research from Thorn Deepfake technology is evolving at an alarming rate, lowering the barrier for bad actors to create hyper-realistic explicit images in seconds—with no technical expertise required. For trust and safety
Learn The Take It Down Act: What Trust and Safety Teams Need to Know Addressing the risks of nonconsensual image abuse AI-generated deepfake nudes are accelerating the spread of nonconsensual image abuse, making it easier for bad actors to manipulate and weaponize imagery of
Case Study How GIPHY uses Safer by Thorn to proactively detect CSAM GIPHY proactively detects CSAM with Safer to deliver on its promise of being a source for content that makes conversations more positive.
Product Updates Driving innovation in trust and safety: Safer by Thorn recognized as a content moderation technology trailblazer Everest Group has recognized Safer by Thorn as one of their content moderation technology trailblazers. Read why our purpose-built solutions made the short list.
Learn CSAM has distinct characteristics that call for purpose-built solutions. CSAM has distinct characteristics that call for purpose-built solutions, such as CSAM classifiers. Thorn's data science team dives into the details.
Learn Cross-platform CSAM hash sharing for platforms There are several child safety organizations that make their CSAM hash lists available to select partners via sharing programs. Learn more.
Learn Four questions to help assess your platform’s risk of hosting CSAM Know the signs that could indicate your platform is at risk of hosting CSAM images and videos. Understand what types of sites are most at risk.
Learn Online child sexual abuse and exploitation statistics Online child sexual abuse and exploitation has continued to rise for more than a decade. Understand the scale of the issue and the emerging trends to watch for.
Learn What is CSAM? Child Safety Terms & Definitions A glossary of special terms and acronyms used within the child safety ecosystem. What's CSAM? CSEA? CSAI? Do they refer to different harms?
Learn Child sexual abuse material: What digital platforms need to know This 7-part series is an essential guide to understanding CSAM and the available detection strategies leveraged by trust and safety professionals.
Learn 2025 Online Child Safety Predictions for Trust and Safety Explore Thorn's predictions for online child safety in 2025, from regulatory changes to AI challenges, and how these trends will shape the future of trust and safety.
Blog When users flock, harm follows: What rapid migration to Bluesky teaches us about content moderation By John Starr, VP of Strategic Impact at Thorn, and Aaron Rodericks, Head of Trust & Safety at Bluesky In the past few weeks, Bluesky saw more than 7 million new users flood its platform - a surge that would test any platform'
Learn How Teams are Making the Business Case for Investing in Trust & Safety Content moderation is crucial for business growth. Trust & Safety initiatives protect users, boost engagement, and improve company value.
Product Updates Safer CSAM Hash Matching Available via API Announcing the launch of our API-based solution for proactive detection of child sexual abuse material (CSAM): Safer Match.
Learn Understanding Gen AI’s Risks to Child Safety on Digital Platforms Generative AI is introducing new vectors of risk for kids online, and it’s also unlocking critical tools to combat online child sexual abuse at scale.
Webinar Prompting Safety: Navigating Gen AI Risks to Child Safety on Your Platform Join Thorn's Sr. Research Manager, Amanda Goharian and VP of Customers & Strategic Partnerships, Amanda Volz, for a comprehensive overview of generative AI risks and strategies for mitigating these dangers on your platform.
Learn Safe Space Lightning Rounds with Trust & Safety Leaders John Starr puts several trust and safety leaders in the “hot spot” for a lightning round of questions to get their POV on what it’s like to work in trust and safety.
Learn Safe Space: Talking Trust & Safety with Patricia Cartes Discover the human side of trust and safety in this candid conversation between Patricia Cartes, Head of Trust & Safety at Cantina AI, and host John Starr, Thorn’s VP of Strategic Impact.
Learn Introducing the CSAM Keyword Hub: A Free Collection of Words Related to Child Safety Risks The CSAM Keyword Hub contains words and phrases related to CSAM and child sexual exploitation, boosting content moderation efforts.
Learn Safe Space: Talking Trust & Safety with Jerrel Peterson Discover the human side of trust and safety in this candid conversation between Jerrel Peterson, Director of Content Policy at Spotify, and host John Starr, Thorn’s VP of Strategic Impact.
Learn Safe Space: Talking Trust & Safety with Yoel Roth Discover the human side of trust and safety in this candid conversation between Yoel Roth, VP at Match Group, and host John Starr, Thorn’s VP of Strategic Impact.
Product Updates Enhancing Platform Safety: Insights from Safer Predict's Text Detection Beta Period At Thorn, we want to make online spaces safer. As part of the trust and safety ecosystem, we understand that the challenge of protecting users from harmful content, especially child
Product Updates Announcing Safer Predict: AI-Driven CSAM & CSE Detection Our latest solution, Safer Predict offers a cutting-edge AI-driven solution that detects new and unreported CSAM as well as harmful text conversations.
Webinar Tech for Good: Using Machine Learning to Detect Sexual Harms Against Children ON-DEMAND | Featuring Rob Wang, Senior Manager of Data Science and Amanda Volz, VP of Customers and Strategic Partnerships
Tools CSAM Keyword Hub Thorn has developed a resource containing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) terms and phrases in multiple languages to use in your child safety mitigations.
