Insights & Best Practices
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.