"Wizz App is a social discovery platform for Gen Z users seeking real connections through chat, casual games, and friend-finding features. As the platform rapidly scaled to 16M+ users, maintaining a safe environment became critical. In a context where communication trends evolve quickly, the challenge was to moderate high volumes of real-time conversations while preserving fluid and authentic interactions."
"To manage safety across age groups, the platform enforces strict age segmentation, ensuring users in younger age brackets and adults interact in separate environments with different levels of risk and moderation requirements. Operating at scale means handling a high volume and variety of messages across different age groups, each requiring context-aware review."
"Traditional moderation approaches based on keywords struggle to keep up since these generic moderation tools were not built for the nuances of how Gen Z communicates. Generic approaches fail to distinguish between age-appropriate banter and genuine harassment, and do not reliably detect more complex risks such as off-platform solicitation or the sharing of sensitive information."
"Wizz App was looking for a moderation partner capable of building models tailored to its platform, rather than relying on generic tools. This meant adapting to its language, user base, and risk profile, while operating at scale and contin"
Wizz App is a social discovery platform for Gen Z users that enables real-time chat, casual games, and friend-finding. The platform scaled to millions of monthly active users and exchanges hundreds of millions of messages each month, making safety moderation critical. Harmful content can appear and spread quickly across age-segmented environments, with different risk levels and moderation requirements. Traditional keyword-based moderation struggles because Gen Z communication includes slang, sarcasm, and shorthand that can resemble harassment. Generic tools also miss complex risks such as off-platform solicitation and sharing sensitive information. Wizz App partnered with Bodyguard to build tailored moderation models that preserve authentic interactions while identifying genuine threats.
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