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Insights

StopNCII and Cinder Partner to Prevent Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery

Cinder is partnering with StopNCII.org to improve the industry response to Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery.

Product

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.

Product

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.

Product

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.

Insights

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.

Insights

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.

Insights

Trust & Safety Lessons for National Security Innovation

What the national security community can learn from the world's most innovative Trust & Safety teams.

Insights

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.

Product

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.

Engineering

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.

Insights

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.

Insights

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.

Engineering

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.