Fighting Spam using Clustering and Automated Rule Creation

Cathy Yang | Software Engineer, Trust & SafetyOne of our biggest priorities at Pinterest is keeping Pinners safe, and that includes protecting them from spam. The Trust & Safety team’s goal is not only to catch spam, but to remove it as quickly as possible to minimize Pinner impact.The goal of spammers is to make money, and the best way to do this is to spam at scale. It’s a numbers game: one million spam emails are much more effective than one spam email. In order to remove spam quickly, we loo...

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