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by Katie Zigelman, on December 7, 2021
Confidence Buckets What are they? On December 6th, 2021, Spectrum Labs is adding a new set of fields to the API Response in order to give customers additional signal to …
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Technology
by Katie Zigelman, on December 7, 2021
Custom Detection List What is it? Spectrum Labs is adding a new solution to every customer’s configuration in order to give you a quick way to add coverage for terms …
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Technology
by Katie Zigelman, on May 5, 2021
At Spectrum Labs, we design products to empower customers to reach their Trust & Safety goals and keep their communities safe, inclusive, and engaged. Whether our customers need complete end-to-end …
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products
Trust and Safety
by Katie Zigelman, on April 28, 2021
Content moderation for voice is very different than moderation for text. Not only is voice a different data type than text, but it is also still in the acceptance stage …
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voice chat moderation
Content Moderation
audio moderation
voice moderation
by Katie Zigelman, on April 5, 2021
Survey Social media platforms and the algorithms that power them shape our culture and identities, influence our perspectives on the world, and control the media, news, and advertising that we …
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Content Moderation
Trust and Safety
corporate governance
by Katie Zigelman, on March 26, 2021
Survey People are spending more and more time in the digital world, with an estimated 30% increase in the amount of time U.S. adults spend online every day since COVID-191 …
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Content Moderation
Trust and Safety
by Katie Zigelman, on February 5, 2021
Survey In early January 2021, social media platform Parler was removed from Apple’s App Store, the Google Play Store, and was later removed from Amazon’s AWS servers due to the …
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profanity filters
by Katie Zigelman, on December 8, 2020
Survey One thing that makes marketplace platforms so attractive to people are social features like comments, chats, etc. Unfortunately, these social features on e-commerce platforms are often exploited by spammers, …
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peer-to-peer marketplaces
Content Moderation
dating apps
username moderation
by Katie Zigelman, on October 7, 2020
Survey The upcoming election seems to be highlighting an increasing division in the United States. And social media is strongly suspected to have played a significant role in this division …
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2020 Election
by Katie Zigelman, on September 17, 2020
Survey Often, the first step for individuals that create an account to interact on an online platform is selecting a username. This could be on a social platform, a dating …
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peer-to-peer marketplaces
Content Moderation
dating apps
username moderation