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The State of Sextortion Today: Key insights for trust & safety teams
New research reveals the state of sextortion in 2025, with specific insights relevant to platform trust and safety teams.
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Access 37,000+ CSAM keywords in multiple languages
Does your platform have messaging, search, or generative prompt functionality? Get access to our free CSAM keyword hub, containing terms and phrases in multiple languages, to use in your child safety mitigations.
Resources for trust and safety professionals
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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
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Safer’s 2024 Impact Report
In 2024, Safer empowered content moderators and trust & safety professionals to detect, review, and report CSAM and CSE on their platforms.
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Facing a new reality in the online marketplace for child sexual exploitation
Explore new data on online child sexual exploitation and the evolving risks youth face.
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The product manager’s guide to choosing content moderation solutions
Find out why content moderation matters for every platform, and get a step-by-step approach to finding your content moderation solution.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Safer’s 2023 Impact Report
In 2023, Safer empowered content moderators and trust & safety professionals to detect, review, and report CSAM from their platforms.
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Combating Financial Sextortion: The Latest Trends and Proactive Solutions
ON-DEMAND | Hosted by Thorn, in collaboration with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
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The Dual Role of Technology: Thorn’s Insights From NCMEC’s 2023 CyberTipline Report
In 2023, NCMEC’s CyberTipline received a staggering 36.2 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation.
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Youth Tell the Truth About Safety Tools: Advice on How to Improve These Tools From Actual Teens
Platform safety tools — like blocking and reporting — are often a child’s first choice for responding to a harmful sexual interaction online. Instead of seeking support
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Safeguard Youth and Protect Your Platform
Understand how to prevent risky situations involving youth and bad actors with insights from Thorn’s latest brief for digital platforms.
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The REPORT Act Is Now Federal Law – Here’s What It Means for Online Platforms
The REPORT Act is now federal law. We provide details about its components and explain how it will impact online platforms.
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Unmasking the Perpetrators Online: Profiles of Bad Actors for Use by Trust and Safety
Learn how easy access to children online has given rise to new types of child sexual perpetrators.
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4 Considerations for Improving Your Child Safety Policies
4 considerations for Trust and Safety teams at digital platforms as they review their child safety policies. Here’s what to consider.
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The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Explained: What the Drafted Bill Could Mean for Your Online Platform
Thorn's policy team explains the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and how the provisions in this bill may impact digital platforms.
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Key Takeaways from the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Hearing with Social Media CEOs
On January 31, the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Discord testified during the hearing, "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis."
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Thorn’s Head of Data Science discuss how machine learning can support child safety on content-hosting platforms
Watch Dr. Rebecca Portnoff’s keynote at AWS re:Invent 2023 to learn how Thorn is using machine learning to detect CSAM.
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VSCO Uses Safer to Protect Its Platform and Community of Creators from CSAM at Scale
For VSCO, building Safer into its infrastructure unlocked automated solutions and moderation efficiencies for VSCO’s trust and safety and content moderation teams.
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Hashing and Matching is Core to Proactive CSAM Detection
Detect known CSAM using hashing and matching, sometimes referred to as CSAM scanning. Learn how it works.
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Categories: Emerging Trends Report 2023
Emerging Trends Report 2023
New report highlights findings from Thorn’s latest research and offers recommendations for addressing online sexual threats to children.
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Safer’s 2022 Impact Report
In 2022, Safer empowered content moderators and trust & safety professionals to detect, review, and report CSAM from their platforms.
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Flickr Uses CSAM Image Classifier to Find Harmful Content
Flickr’s Trust & Safety team uses Safer’s CSAM Image Classifier to detect and remove previously unknown child abuse content from their platform.
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Announcing RCMP Reporting via Safer
Detect CSAM and send reports to Royal Canadian Mounted Police from Safer, an all-in-one solution for CSAM moderation.
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Safer’s Self-Hosted Deployment Provides Control, Security and Scalability
Safer is a flexible suite of tools designed to support your company’s processes and scale your child sexual abuse material (CSAM) elimination efforts.
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Safer’s 2021 Impact Report
In 2021, Safer empowered content moderators and trust & safety professionals to detect, report and remove CSAM from their content-hosting platforms.
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Let’s Build a Better Internet for Every Child: Safer’s best-in-class technology is now available for anyone with an AWS Marketplace account
Safer by Thorn is available in the AWS Marketplace. Safer integrates with your AWS Cloud infrastructure for better control, scalability, and security.
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The challenge of detecting CSAM videos and what we can do about it today
Detecting CSAM within video content presents unique challenges. To solve this, Thorn's engineers developed a proprietary hashing technology called SSVH.
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Announcing Safer Enterprise for Detection and Post-Detection of CSAM
Our first version of Safer includes end-to-end functionality to support the identification, removal, and reporting of CSAM at scale and in real-time. Comprehensive coverage begins with proactive detection. Read more about the features we've released.
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