Joy Worth Building For: Thorn’s Refreshed Brand Reinforces our Mission

At Thorn, we envision a world the place each baby is free to easily be a child. The place children expertise the enjoyment of childhood free from the specter of sexual abuse. And the place baby sexual abuse materials is eradicated from the web.

On daily basis, we present up dedicated to this trigger.

That’s why right this moment, we’re proud to announce a brand new milestone in Thorn’s journey: A contemporary, revamped model for Thorn and the launch of our newly redesigned web site. This transformation is a crucial step for our group, reflecting our relentless dedication to defend kids amid a quickly advancing digital period. 

Whereas we stay deeply dedicated to the identical mission — to construct know-how to defend kids from sexual abuse — this evolution additional reinforces our dedication to fulfill rising threats with revolutionary options.

Our holistic options deal with the difficulty in any respect ranges of kid safety. From working with tech corporations, authorities and regulation enforcement to participating dad and mom and youth, we empower the kid security ecosystem with the cutting-edge applied sciences, analysis and sources to safeguard kids now and into the longer term. 

Thorn is uniquely positioned to fight baby sexual abuse the place it intersects with know-how. Our refreshed model provides a extra dynamic expression of the numerous methods we try this, permitting you to interact with the completely different aspects of our work.

On daily basis, kids are sexually abused and the web solely makes it worse. Nevertheless it doesn’t must be this fashion. At Thorn, we face the unthinkable, daring to make a distinction and using the novel ingenuity that creates a brighter future for teenagers. In any case, that’s pleasure price constructing for.

A multifaceted method: Thorn’s 5 key initiatives

Children should have the brightest minds defending them. Our workers consists of consultants in baby security know-how, analysis, information science, coverage, and youth empowerment. By their efforts, we’ve got proof that constructing revolutionary know-how works to defend kids from sexual abuse. That’s why Thorn’s working to:

Make the web safer and cease the cycle of abuse

Even after a toddler is rescued, pictures and movies of their abuse can flow into on-line for years, persevering with the cycle of trauma. We equip tech platforms with superior instruments, insights, and connections to halt the unfold of abusive content material and forestall revictimization. 

Up to now, Thorn’s Safer answer has helped the tech trade detect and flag for removing greater than 5 million baby sexual abuse recordsdata from the open internet – and we proceed to develop new merchandise and supply consulting providers create safer on-line environments, even because the web evolves.

Empower dad and mom and youth to stop abuse

At present’s kids develop up with telephones of their palms and — relying on their ages — near-constant entry to social networking, messaging, and gaming platforms. 

Thorn for Dad and mom helps equip dad and mom with the abilities and sources they should have vital, productive, and judgment-free conversations to stop abuse. 

Our youth-centered prevention program, NoFiltr, will increase consciousness amongst youth in regards to the dangers of sharing nudes on-line. It additionally seeks to alter poisonous attitudes that disgrace victims, and supply data and instruments youth want to withstand on-line threats. 

Discover kids quicker

Baby sexual abuse materials (CSAM) discovered on-line is proof of a kid’s real-life sexual abuse. Thorn’s options, like our CSAM Classifier, drastically cut back the time it takes to search out baby victims. Our instruments instantly join investigators and NGOs with crucial info to assist them remedy instances quicker and take away kids from hurt.

Join and transfer your complete baby security ecosystem with unique analysis

Abusers benefit from new know-how to use kids. Thorn conducts unique analysis that enables us and our companions throughout the kid security ecosystem to raised perceive the ways of unhealthy actors, and what kids expertise and understand right this moment so we are able to create instruments and packages to assist children and their communities. 

Our analysis findings present highly effective insights. They permit us to be nimble within the ever-changing know-how area and reply to rising threats shortly.

Affect coverage

Thorn works with politicians globally — particularly within the U.S. and EU — to assist them perceive why it’s crucial to guard kids from hurt, and why know-how have to be a part of the answer. Thorn helps be sure that lawmakers have all the knowledge they should create insurance policies designed to maintain kids secure.

Get to know the difficulty: The evolution of CSAM

To cease the unfold of CSAM on-line, we should perceive the way it begins. Our Challenge web page dives right into a dynamic narrative on the digital evolution of kid sexual abuse. The place as soon as the commerce of CSAM was almost eradicated, the delivery of the web set a brand new stage for simply buying and selling CSAM amongst abusers, accelerating the creation and unfold of CSAM in new methods and resulting in different crimes, like sextortion.

The reality is, baby sexual abuse is going on in all places. It’s taking place in our communities and to the individuals we all know.

To actually perceive Thorn’s trigger and the size of the difficulty, we invite you to discover our Challenge web page. The immersive storytelling explores the pathways of abuse that result in CSAM’s creation and particulars CSAM’s origins. It additionally gives context that deepens our collective understanding of kid sexual abuse right this moment and the way we are able to reply to defend kids. 

Discover the Challenge

Dive deeper: Discover our Analysis Heart

Need to see the info and insights that inform our work? Our new Analysis Heart gives entry to Thorn’s unique analysis in addition to analysis from our companions that collectively are driving the kid security ecosystem ahead. 

Thorn’s analysis group conducts qualitative and quantitative analysis instantly with youth to know their attitudes and behaviors on-line, their experiences with dangerous encounters, and rather more. 

Within the Analysis Heart, you possibly can dive deeper into subjects reminiscent of youth views on sharing nudes, their experiences with on-line grooming, and the way self-produced sexual imagery is a rising development amongst youth with inherent dangers for his or her security. This analysis helps us perceive the instruments, sources and advocacy wanted to guard kids on-line – and off. 

Go to the Analysis Heart

Take the pledge: “I consider in the precise to childhood pleasure”

Thorn is working to help and activate the kid security ecosystem by constructing the instruments and packages to defend kids from sexual abuse. We’re all a part of that ecosystem. Every one in all us has a job to play in protecting children secure in our households, our communities and our world.  

If we work collectively, we are able to shield probably the most important promise of childhood — the precise to easily be a child. It begins with our perception in a greater future and our collective braveness to make it a actuality. We will finish this public well being disaster and create a greater world for each baby, now and for generations to come back.

We hope you’ll present your help for kids and this mission by becoming a member of us in our pledge. As a result of that is pleasure price constructing for.

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