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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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Content moderation is crucial for business growth. Trust & Safety initiatives protect users, boost engagement, and improve company value.

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Announcing the launch of our API-based solution for proactive detection of child sexual abuse material (CSAM): Safer Match.

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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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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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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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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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The CSAM Keyword Hub contains words and phrases related to CSAM and child sexual exploitation, boosting content moderation efforts.

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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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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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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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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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ON-DEMAND | Featuring Rob Wang, Senior Manager of Data Science and Amanda Volz, VP of Customers and Strategic Partnerships

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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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In 2023, Safer empowered content moderators and trust & safety professionals to detect, review, and report CSAM from their platforms.

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ON-DEMAND | Hosted by Thorn, in collaboration with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

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In 2023, NCMEC’s CyberTipline received a staggering 36.2 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation.

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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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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. We provide details about its components and explain how it will impact online platforms.

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Learn how easy access to children online has given rise to new types of child sexual perpetrators.

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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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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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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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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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Case Study

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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Detect known CSAM using hashing and matching, sometimes referred to as CSAM scanning. Learn how it works.

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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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Addressing CSAM requires scalable tools to detect both known and unknown content.

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Product Updates

In 2022, Safer empowered content moderators and trust & safety professionals to detect, review, and report CSAM from their platforms.

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Case Study

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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Product Updates

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 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 self-managed hashlists help customers optimize their CSAM detection. SaferList helps fill the gap between when new CSAM is reported and matched against.

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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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If one of these signals applies to your platform, it’s worth taking a look at your company’s policies and procedures for handling CSAM. If any of these resonate for you, it might be time to consider proactive CSAM detection:

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Product Updates

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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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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List of common terms and definitions across the issue and technical space, alongside a global list of child protection organizations.

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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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We're activating the larger technology ecosystem with tools to fight the spread of CSAM on platforms and eliminate it from the internet for good.

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The New York Times published a four-part series tackling the intricacies of child sexual abuse material in 2019. We're sharing it as a resource alongside our insights on who this impacts most and how.

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