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We found North Korean engineers in our application pile. Here’s what our ex-CIA co founders did about it.

Cinder is part of a growing list of US-based tech companies that encounter engineering applicants who are actually suspected North Korean nationals. Here's what we're doing about it.

Engineering Insights: How fast data queries with django-zeal support content moderation in Cinder

We’re excited to publicly release django-zeal, a Python package used extensively at Cinder to supercharge database queries by detecting more types of N+1 queries, with more actionable error messages and advanced configurability.

TrustCon 2024: All The Info You Need

Cinder is proud to once again be a sponsor for Trust Con 2024. Use this page as a reference for where you can find us: events, talks, happy hours, and more! See you there.

Brian Fishman Keynote to Terrorism and Social Media Conference (June 17, 2024)

This is the text of a keynote presentation given at the Terrorism and Social Media (TASM) at Swansea University on June 17, 2024. It has been lightly edited for clarity, contains fewer images than those presented during the live presentation, and includes several hyperlink references not applicable for a live audience.

Cinder Joins the Christchurch Call

Cinder is proud to join the Christchurch Call, a multi-stakeholder community established after the Christchurch, New Zealand terrorist attack in 2019.

Toward a Concept of Trust & Safety Orchestration

What is orchestration and how does it matter to Trust & Safety? How can managing and coordinating responses to platform abuse increase human-machine effectiveness?

How Cinder built a NCMEC integration that streamlines the reporting process

Learn how Cinder is helping customers automate and integrate their platforms with NCMEC's CyberTipline to improve quality and efficiency in their reporting.

Building Bolt: How We Launched Cinder’s New Design System

Trust and Safety professionals operate in high-stakes environments where every second counts and accuracy is paramount. That’s why Cinder has invested deeply in building Bolt, Cinder’s new design system, with flexibility, scalability, and precision at its core.

Why Your Moderation Strategy Is Failing Users—and How to Fix It with Data Labeling

A step-by-step guide for teams that want to learn how to shift from an action-centric to a policy-centric moderation approach that is fair, transparent, and scalable.

Cinder Is Partnering With The Appeals Centre Europe

We’re excited to announce the partnership between Cinder and the Appeals Centre Europe. The Appeals Centre Europe will use the Cinder platform to review cases initially from Meta, TikTok, and YouTube.

OpenAI’s new content moderation API is now available in Cinder

Yesterday OpenAI released a new model for their Moderation API, omni-moderation-latest, and today it’s available within Cinder as part of our detection management module.

We found North Korean engineers in our application pile. Here’s what our ex-CIA co founders did about it.

Cinder is part of a growing list of US-based tech companies that encounter engineering applicants who are actually suspected North Korean nationals. Here's what we're doing about it.