Insights & Best Practices
Announcing SCIM support for Cinder: User Management That Spans Your Content Moderation Platform
Cinder now supports SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management). This means that access to the sensitive information in your trust and safety software remains secure and accessible to only those teammates that need it.
Improve Your QA Speed and Accuracy: How Patreon Uses Cinder For Data Labeling
Unlike standalone QA tools, Cinder’s QA suite is built directly into our content moderation platform.
Why Salesforce Doesn’t Cut It As A Content Moderation Platform
Using Salesforce as a content moderation platform becomes clunky, expensive, and inefficient. Here are tips on how to smoothly migrate off Salesforce.
Cinder partners with ROOST to support open source safety
Cinder is excited to partner with ROOST to further support online safety in open source tools, a cause at the root of Cinder's mission.
Trust & Safety Lessons for National Security Innovation
What the national security community can learn from the world's most innovative Trust & Safety teams.
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.
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.
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.Â
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.
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.