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Queues: Agility, Customization, and Automating Triage

We built Queues in the Cinder platform to be highly configurable. This post will look at how this flexibility enables faster process change and supports more automated reviews.

Trust & Safety: The Decision Spectrum and Organizational Structure

At Cinder, we conceptualize some of that complexity in the Decision Spectrum, a framework that describes a range of Trust & Safety decision types on a spectrum reflecting various levels of complexity.

Measuring Trust and Safety

Measuring the success (and limitations) of a Trust & Safety program is a complex process, particularly because many Trust & Safety departments are considered cost centers.

Countering Terrorism on Digital Platforms

Digital communications platforms are part of the geopolitical battlespace - and that reality will test platforms in new ways. No company will balance all the considerations perfectly – that cannot and should not be our expectation – but those companies that prepared for these moments will manage better than those that did not. 

How Cinder Interviews Engineers

Engineers are at the center of everything we do at Cinder, so hiring people with the right skills to succeed at our stage of development is critical. Our engineering interview process is designed to identify those individuals.

Build vs. Buy: Trust & Safety Edition

Today, Trust & Safety teams have a robust set of vendor options and so face a question long-pondered by leaders in other areas of the business: whether to build or to buy.

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.