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The Trust & Safety Funnel: A Framework for Product, Operations, and Policy

By recognizing and understanding the interconnected roles that policy, product, and operations departments play, teams will be empowered to enhance cross-functional communication, anticipate and prepare for downstream changes, and work together more effectively.

How Our Team Puts Cinder’s Values into Practice

We put our company values – being empathetic, relentless, and intentional – into everything we do. But values without action mean nothing.

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?

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.