Product: Moderation

Social Media Moderation Guide: Tools, Examples, & Best Practices

Whether building a social app or managing a brand's online presence, moderation is key to balancing free expression with user safety, brand trust, and legal compliance. Get started! Activate your free Stream account today and start prototyping. The scale of moderating social media is massive. For example, Meta flagged and removed over 16 million content
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Content Moderation at Scale: Handling Millions of Messages Without Sacrificing UX

In 2021, Twitch streamers, mainly Black and LGBTQ+, were hit with a wave of "hate raids." These automated bot swarms dumped dozens of identical slurs and threats into chat rooms in bursts that lasted seconds. The median raid spewed ~48 messages in <16 s. 222 bots hit one channel at once. In the fallout, creators organised
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Feature Announcement: Moderation Rule Builder

Moderating user-generated content at scale is difficult, especially as harmful behavior patterns evolve. Rule Builder provides a new way to define complex moderation logic without writing a single line of code. What is Rule Builder? Rule Builder is a new dashboard feature within Stream's AI Moderation platform that lets you: Define moderation rules based on
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A Complete Guide to Audio and Voice Moderation

Imagine you're happily playing PUBG. The circle is closing; your team still has a chance of a chicken dinner, until you get sniped. Then it starts. A stream of toxic voice chat erupts from a teammate. Slurs and threats that destroy the match. You hit mute, but the damage is done. This scenario plays out
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Multilingual Content Moderation with LLMs

Content warning: This article contains some NSFW Hungarian and Korean words and phrases. Did you know for the sitcom Mork and Mindy, the production team needed censors who knew four languages just to keep up with Robin Williams' sneaky swearing attempts? That was in the seventies, but today’s content moderators have the same problem, writ
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