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
Product Updates Safer’s 2023 Impact Report In 2023, Safer empowered content moderators and trust & safety professionals to detect, review, and report CSAM from their platforms.
Webinar 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
Learn 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.
Learn 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 from a parent or
Learn 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.
Learn 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.
Learn 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.
Learn 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.
Learn 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."
Learn 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.
Case Study 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.
Learn 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.