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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. 

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.

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.

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.