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Technology For Good
March 22, 2023

How Thorn Works With Platforms to Make Them Safer

Thorn is grateful when we get the opportunity to partner with popular platforms to connect with young users where they are, helping them to interact in positive ways to reduce risk.
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Technology For Good
March 22, 2023

With a Coordinated Approach, We’re Eliminating CSAM from the Open Web

With millions of files being uploaded every day to their platforms, Safer’s customers rely on our comprehensive hash database and advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning models to help them find CSAM.
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Child Sexual Abuse Material
March 17, 2023

Decoding the Acronyms Used in Fighting Child Sexual Abuse

The language we use to talk about child sexual abuse is important. Familiarize yourself with the latest terms and definitions from Thorn to increase your knowledge.
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Technology For Good
February 17, 2023

How Flickr works with Thorn to Detect Harmful Content

To date, Flickr has detected 50,000 potential CSAM images (and counting) using Safer's CSAM Image Classifier.
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Child Sexual Abuse MaterialGroomingSextortion
February 13, 2023

Recognizing Abuse Masquerading as Love: Grooming, SG-CSAM, and Sextortion

At Thorn, we understand how perpetrators deliberately emotionally manipulate and misrepresent "love" to abuse their victims – often without them even knowing it.
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ResearchYouth At Risk
February 7, 2023

New Research from Thorn: 22% of minors report having online sexual interactions with adults

According to Thorn's latest research, the features provided by platforms to help users block and report bad actors are simply insufficient in keeping kids safe online.
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NewsSuccess In the Field
November 29, 2022

Thorn at Ten: A Decade of Progress

In Thorn’s first decade, the digital pioneer became a powerhouse in defending children from sexual abuse. Check out our proudest moments in our latest blog.
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NewsPhilanthropy
November 14, 2022

Support Thorn with AmazonSmile

Did you know there’s an easy way to support Thorn’s mission every time you shop online? Add us as your charity of choice on Amazon.com, and a percentage of your eligible purchases will be donated to Thorn on your behalf…
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SextortionYouth At Risk
November 14, 2022

The Growing Threat of Sextortion

Sextortion is when someone's sexual imagery is used to extort them. Put simply, it's when someone blackmails or threatens to expose another person's sexual imagery to make that person do something they don’t want to do, like send more compromising…
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