November 2, 2022
NoFiltr Launches Youth Innovation Council to Design the Future of the Internet
Meet the youth building the internet they deserve with NoFiltr's Youth Innovation Council.
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August 25, 2022
Safer Impact Report
Our Progress Towards Eliminating CSAM with Safer At Thorn, we’re on a mission to create a safer internet for children, beginning with the elimination of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In 2021, with the help of our industry tool, Safer,…
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January 6, 2022
Thorn CEO Julie Cordua: My vision for 2022
“A world where every child can simply be a kid—where they can live connected lives without being sexually exploited or revictimized.” This is a key message from what I call Thorn’s guiding star: the vision by which we navigate this…
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August 5, 2021
Apple’s expanded child protections and the future of digital child protection
Today we commend Apple as a global technology leader in taking a critical first step in announcing their commitment to identify and report CSAM within encrypted environments— and detailing the technology they'll use to do so.
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April 14, 2021
Searching for a child in a private world: Thorn VP of External Affairs speaks at TEDxWarwick
“Private spaces are not always inherently good for children,” was something a friend of mine said to me a few years back. I had no idea at the time just how prescient this statement was. Today…
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March 24, 2021
Thorn’s 2020 impact
Thorn’s impact in 2020 was only possible because of you — our partners, our supporters, and everyone working on the front lines to ensure children can be safe, curious, and happy online. And while our latest impact report tells an…
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December 28, 2020
20 things from 2020 we’re grateful for
2020 has been a year unlike any other—and chances are, unlike any year we’ll see for some time to come (fingers crossed). I’m not going to list all the things 2020 is already known for—you’ve heard plenty about those already.…
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December 18, 2020
Building technology to serve every child in 2020 and beyond
Friend, Nearly a decade of scrappy growth has taught us a lot about how to work with uncertainty — how to thrive in it. There wasn’t a playbook when we founded Thorn almost a decade ago. We knew there was…
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July 21, 2020
The road to Safer: Equipping industry to end CSAM
From TED to Today “Determined and nervous. In equal parts.” This is how Thorn CEO Julie Cordua describes feeling as she stood in the wings of the TED stage on April 16 of last year. Thorn was being acknowledged as…
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April 30, 2020
A letter from our CEO: Julie Cordua on Thorn’s response to COVID-19
I hope all of our community members reading this are healthy and staying safe. Over the past months, as COVID-19 has spread around the world and impacted all of our lives, here at Thorn we’ve been focused on how these…
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