Declan Cummings

Last week we announced what we've been working on this past year at @CinderPlatform. Trust & Safety teams are doing incredibly important work with little tooling support and we've been working hard to change that. We have a great team and we're hiring! cinder.co

With $14m in its pocket, new DC startup @CinderPlatform is looking to upend trust and safety efforts. The company, founded by a former Meta engineer, is backed by @Accel and @ycombinator bit.ly/3YhDXHp

Trust & safety is paramount to a functioning society. Addressing these issues will be one of those most important problems over the next decade. Excited at what @itsGlenWise @brianfishman @declanbcummings Phil Brennan & Team cinder.co are building. #proudinvestor

Exclusive: A startup from former Meta employees + former Facebook counterterrorism and dangerous orgs director @brianfishman is launching a moderation platform custom-built for trust and safety teams techcrunch.com/2022/12/08/cin…

YC W22's @CinderPlatform, the industry’s first Trust and Safety operations platform, is officially launching with $14M in funding to help organizations combat Internet abuse at scale. Congrats @itsGlenWise, @brianfishman, @declanbcummings, Phil, and team! techcrunch.com/2022/12/08/cin…

Lumen’s promo video is finally out! Check out this video that interviews #NorthKorean escapees about how consuming foreign info impacted them. Co-produced by North Korean escapee team member whose dream is to become a filmmaker. Information is Freedom. bit.ly/3DFy8rD

Proud to announce that I have joined the Lumen Board and that I have co-authored this piece (with Lumen Founder @JieunBaek1) about how we can innovate our approach to #humanrights in #NorthKorea and #invest in the North Korean people: belfercenter.org/publication/in…

@wongmjane Ask @BadChinaTake - he’s fluent in all the collectives

Question for China Twitter: what are the accounts named in the pattern of “*iao collective” and what’s the backstory? like: Niao Collective, Piao Collective, Xiao Collective, Biao Collective, Miao Collective

DPRK Infosec: hwp 🥴 Harvard Web Publishing: why isn't anyone in Infosec opening our DPRK-themed event email???

Thank you @LibertyinNK for the Lumen shoutout!

@jeongminnkim Might not be relevant to your specific article if you’re interviewing WHO officials on COVID facts though

@jeongminnkim I think it’d be very helpful for the future if we can use externally-visible side effects (eg NK’s expelling diplomats) to predict how severe a problem is internally.

SURVEY: Hello all! I’m writing something and I need your help — Question: What were the things you were most curious/concerned about North Korea’s COVID prevention measures so far? I’ll try to write this piece as an answer to some of your queries.

"The incoming Biden administration should make clear that it supports the protection of North Korean human rights and of South Korean civil liberties and should suggest to the Moon administration that it withdraw the new law."

“Friday is the first time Facebook has publicly exposed an offensive hacking operation and, if confirmed, would be a rare case of suspected state-backed cyberspies being tracked to a specific organisation.”

Have an innovative idea to bring info and media to North Korea? Partner with Lumen's experts including @JieunBaek1 and @martyn_williams to turn it into reality: lumen.global/open-call

@GalloVOA Worth noting that Biden is in full agreement with NK voanews.com/east-asia/nort…

@BBCLBicker “The Korean peninsula should be a nuclear free zone.” Also NK: voanews.com/east-asia/nort…

@BBCLBicker Specifically he said he would meet if NK agrees to work toward a nuclear-free peninsula, right? Which NK has already done.

Joe Biden describes Kim Jong Un as a thug and said the Korean Peninsula should be a nuclear free zone. Said he would meet with Kim only if he said he would draw down his nuclear arsenal. If North Korea is watching which we know they do, they’ll be making calculations for 2021

@freekorea_us Hope you responded that the decision made you wanna cry