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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). […]

Any content-hosting platform in AWS Marketplace can access Safer to proactively identify, remove, and report child sexual abuse material online  Safer is one of the first holistic tools of its […]

Guest post by Holly Lawrence, Trust and Safety Manager at Flickr and SmugMug When someone asks me about my job or what exactly it is that I do, the first […]

Did you miss the big news? Last month we announced that Safer, Thorn’s first commercial product, is officially out of beta. Safer is the first comprehensive solution for companies hosting […]

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 […]

Have you ever been stopped in your tracks and humbled to know you played a small part in something really big? At Thorn, we felt that way last Monday when […]

Philip Hölzenspies is a Software Engineer at Facebook. He also works to maintain the platform’s PhotoDNA infrastructure, which helps accelerate the identification, removal and reporting of child abuse imagery. In […]

Courtney Gregoire works as a senior attorney in Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, where she fights technology-facilitated crime against vulnerable populations including children and the elderly. Her blog post is part […]

John Shehan is the Vice President of the Exploited Child Division at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. He also serves as Vice President to INHOPE, a network […]