Product: Moderation

Scaling Moderation to 1,500+ Requests per Second: Stream's Latest Benchmarks

Stream Moderation benchmarks from live traffic: about 35 ms for English text, 1,500+ text requests per second, and about 300 ms to score a frame.

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Prediction Markets Have a Trust Problem. Here's How to Solve It.

In under two years, prediction markets went from a niche corner of the internet for political junkies to platforms with sportsbook-level engagement. Kalshi and Polymarket alone have hit millions of monthly active users. For most industries, that growth curve gets a headline and a victory lap. For anyone responsible for trust and safety, it's the exact scenario that keeps them up at night.

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Architecting Real-Time Moderation for Live Video

Live video removes the one thing every other moderation system relies on - time to think before content ships. This article covers the architecture for real-time moderation - a fast, shallow path that beats your delivery window, and a slower, deeper path that corrects the call after the fact.

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Bot Detection for Content Moderation: Why Your Trust & Safety Stack Needs Behavioral Signals

Most teams still think about bot detection as a security problem. CAPTCHAs, rate limiting, DDoS mitigation, browser fingerprinting, that's the domain of the security team, or the network layer above it. It's the gate traffic hits before it ever reaches the product. But the bots causing the most damage in 2026 aren't trying to take

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Where LLM Training Data Comes From (And Why It Matters)

Everyone talks about models. New architectures, larger parameter counts, faster inference, those tend to dominate the conversation. But if you're actually building AI systems (or evaluating vendors), you quickly realize something else matters more: The data. Not just how much of it you have, but where it comes from, how it's processed, and how it evolves

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Marketplace Content Moderation: How to Build Trust and Prevent Abuse at Scale

Marketplaces only work when people trust each other. Buyers trust that listings accurately represent what they're purchasing. Sellers trust they won't be scammed, harassed, or pushed off the platform by bad actors. And both trust that the marketplace itself is actively protecting them, not reacting after damage is already done. As marketplaces scale, maintaining that

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Build vs. Buy Moderation: The Ultimate Decision Guide for Trust & Safety

Content moderation is the invisible infrastructure of the web. Every message sent, image uploaded, livestream broadcast, and marketplace listing posted passes through moderation systems that determine whether it reaches its intended audience. Get it right, and your platform becomes a thriving community where users feel safe to connect, transact, and create. Get it wrong, and

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Content Moderation Ethics: Navigating Bias, Censorship & Fairness

Online communities rely on moderation to function, yet every moderation decision carries significant ethical implications. The platforms that choose to remove, allow, promote, or downrank content directly shape culture, discourse, and safety. As AI systems take on more moderation responsibilities and regulatory scrutiny increases, the stakes continue to rise. Ethical moderation is no longer only

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