Declan Cummings

Head of Engineering @CinderPlatform • Board @ promoting leadership for students from North Korea • Advisor @ developing cross-border tech

[Glen Wise @itsGlenWise]

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! https://t.co/7MdGMlQPL9

[Technical.ly DC @TechnicallyDC]

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 https://t.co/VoPv73vAXQ

[Vivek Sodera @vsodera]

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 https://t.co/30uE8DH2ZV are building. #proudinvestor

[Taylor Hatmaker @tayhatmaker]

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 https://t.co/cY3NrcVtdf

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

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! https://t.co/6bP62UfqWm

[Jieun Baek @JieunBaek1]

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.
https://t.co/KXoDoL2Ap0

[Sylvia Kim @sylviankim]

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: https://t.co/WJ0XitZpi8

[Declan Cummings @declanbcummings]

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

[Declan Cummings @declanbcummings]

DPRK Infosec: hwp 🥴

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

[Declan Cummings @declanbcummings]

Thank you @LibertyinNK for the Lumen shoutout!

[Liberty in North Korea @LibertyinNK]

Since 2004, we’ve been working alongside the North Korean people to accelerate change.

This #birthday, we want to honor those working alongside us on this issue. We hope you can support their work and join us in celebrating their commitment to the North Korean people.

[Declan Cummings @declanbcummings]

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

[Declan Cummings @declanbcummings]

@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.

[Declan Cummings @declanbcummings]

"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."

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

By banning the smuggling of information across the border in an effort to placate Pyongyang, Seoul is allowing North Korea’s repressive tactics to spill over into South Korea, @JieunBaek1 argues.
https://t.co/bruo84uD0B

[Declan Cummings @declanbcummings]

“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.”

[Nathaniel Gleicher @[email protected] @ngleicher]

2/ The Vietnam operation, run by APT32, targeted human rights activists in Vietnam and overseas, on our platforms and elsewhere, using social engineering, malware, and other malicious techniques. We found links to CyberOne Group, a Vietnamese IT company. https://t.co/cJKIdCgeOs

[Declan Cummings @declanbcummings]

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: https://t.co/fj2IFtCAAg

[Declan Cummings @declanbcummings]

@GalloVOA Worth noting that Biden is in full agreement with NK https://t.co/wlhG620bF7

[Declan Cummings @declanbcummings]

@BBCLBicker “The Korean peninsula should be a nuclear free zone.”
Also NK: https://t.co/wlhG620bF7

[Declan Cummings @declanbcummings]

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

[Declan Cummings @declanbcummings]

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