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Ronny Cruz
Ronny Cruz

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Candor Trust and Safety

Most "trust and safety" pages are a paragraph of promises. We built ours differently.

This week we launched Candor Trust & Safety โ€” the public home for every safety system behind Candor: The Open Feed Network. Not a marketing page. An evidence page.

A few things that make it different:

๐Ÿ”‘ Our cryptographic keys are published, not just claimed. Every adult-verification we issue is signed with a key you can look up yourself โ€” no account, no API, no trusting our word for it.

๐Ÿงพ Every consent record is independently checkable. Paste a receipt into our verifier and your own browser โ€” not our servers โ€” confirms it's real. If we ever get it wrong, anyone can catch it. That's the point.

๐Ÿง’ Your Voice, our youth platform, now requires ID-verified adult consent for every account โ€” enforced in the code, not just in policy. No verified adult, no account. Full stop.

๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ We red-team our own systems and publish what we find. This week our internal adversarial testing tool caught a real gap in our own consent flow โ€” we fixed it, then proved the fix twice: once against the exact attack that found it, once confirming real users were never affected.

None of this is because regulation forced our hand (though it's coming fast โ€” the UK, the EU, half of US states). It's because "trust us" was never going to be good enough, and we'd rather build something you don't have to.

Take a look: candortrustandsafety.com

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