Product: Moderation

As online platforms strengthen their safety frameworks, malicious users respond with increasingly creative ways to evade detection. The rise of content moderation circumvention is not a surprise. Modern apps support global conversations at scale, and as moderation becomes more effective, the incentive to outsmart it grows. But circumvention isn't increasing solely because moderation is improving.

Trust and safety teams sit at the intersection of user experience, legal risk, and community health. Yet many teams still struggle to answer basic performance questions like: Is our moderation platform actually catching harmful content? Are we overblocking and frustrating good users? Are our tools paying off in time and cost savings? The only way

Content moderation is at a critical juncture. The amount of user-generated content has exploded across chat, activity feeds, gaming environments, livestreams, and marketplaces. Every interaction has become an opportunity for connection, but also an opportunity for harm. At the same time, regulation is increasing worldwide, and user expectations for safety are higher than ever. Trust

What started as simple text-based chat rooms has exploded into a complex ecosystem of real-time interactions: livestreams with thousands of concurrent viewers, multiplayer games with audio rooms, dating apps with video calls, customer support chats, creator economy platforms, and virtual reality spaces where communication happens through gestures and proximity. This evolution presents a fundamental challenge

This guide walks you through how to get up and running with Stream's AI Moderation product: enabling moderation in your project, configuring policies, testing your setup, and building workflows that help your team stay ahead of harmful content. What This Tutorial Covers In this tutorial, you'll learn how to: Set up your project and choose

Content moderation has undergone a major shift in recent years.  What once felt like an opaque black box to users has steadily moved toward openness, clarity, and accountability. Historically, a user who had content removed or an account restricted rarely received meaningful information about why the decision happened, who made it, or whether it could

There was a time when the only weapon in the chat moderator's arsenal was a simple keyword list. You would be adding new words and phrases to your filters as they came up, always in reactive mode. Maybe you have regexes to help. Perhaps you build out a team. But you're always chasing the latest

"Discord's AutoMod feature is amazing! How did we get by before that was a thing..." -Reddit user croc122 If you've ever set up a community online, even a small one, you'll have seen the bad side of people. "croc122" knows this. It's not just the flame wars and toxic comments that cause problems; it's also