Detect URLs, shortened links, and off-platform solicitation attempts in user-generated text.
Text enters the pipeline. The ML layer detects full URLs, partial domains, shortened links, and obfuscated patterns. Each link is classified with confidence scores in real time.
See Lasso in actionAllowlist trusted domains. Blocklist competitors and known spam sources. Flag shortened URLs for resolution. You configure all of it without writing code.
See Lasso in actionA link in a product review is different from a link in a seller profile. The AI Moderator evaluates intent: sharing, solicitation, spam, phishing.
See Lasso in actionEdge cases reach moderators with full context: the detected link, the AI classification, and the surrounding conversation. Every decision feeds back into the AI Moderator.
See Lasso in actionIdentifies full URLs, shortened links, partial domains, and obfuscated link patterns in user text. Every link is classified with a confidence score and passed through the moderation pipeline.
Messaging app invitations, external payment links, and coded language directing users elsewhere. Detected by the AI Moderator based on intent, not just keywords.
Trusted domains pass automatically. Prohibited domains are blocked. Everything in between is classified by the AI Moderator. Configured per community in the dashboard.
Three layers of AI handle the volume, apply your rules, and surface the grey areas. Your team only sees what needs a human, and each decision retrains the model.
Block off-platform leakage and phishing while the legitimate links your users share keep flowing. You set the threshold in the dashboard and tune it per community.
One API. Clear dashboards. A moderation pipeline built around one-click actions and the right context, right where you need it.
The four-layer pipeline automates around 99.9% of moderation decisions, including link classification, and routes the remaining edge cases to human review with full context. Every link gets a confidence score, so borderline cases reach a moderator rather than being silently passed or blocked. Each human decision feeds back into the AI Moderator to improve future accuracy.
A regex matches the shape of a link but cannot read intent, so it misses obfuscated domains and over-blocks legitimate links. Lasso expands shortened URLs, decodes character substitutions, then has the AI Moderator weigh context: a link in a product review reads differently from the same link in a seller profile. That is the difference between pattern matching and classifying whether a link is sharing, solicitation, spam, or phishing.
Yes. The AI Moderator flags coded language that directs users elsewhere, such as messaging-app handles or instructions to continue a conversation off-platform, even without a clickable URL. It classifies intent from the surrounding conversation rather than relying on a literal link pattern. This catches the romance-scam and fee-bypass tactics that link-only filters miss.
Link detection runs inline as part of Lasso's text moderation pipeline, so URLs are classified in real time before content reaches your users. It works across the 200+ languages Lasso supports, including solicitation phrased in non-English text. You connect once through the API and dashboard, and results appear alongside your other text moderation classifications.
External link detection scans user-generated text for URLs, shortened links, partial domains, and obfuscated link patterns. Lasso's four-layer pipeline detects the link, applies your domain rules, classifies the link's intent through context-aware AI, and routes edge cases to human review. Every link is classified with a confidence score.
Lasso expands shortened URLs (bit.ly, tinyurl, t.co) to their full destination before classification. Obfuscated domains with character substitutions or unicode tricks are decoded and matched against your domain rules. The full destination URL is what gets classified, not the shortened version.
Yes. Set up domain allowlists and blocklists in the dashboard per community or platform. Trusted domains (your own site, YouTube, Wikipedia) pass automatically. Blocked domains (known spam, competitors, prohibited services) are rejected. Links to unlisted domains are classified by the AI Moderator based on context and intent.
Lasso's AI Moderator detects when users attempt to move conversations off-platform through messaging app links, external payment URLs, and coded solicitation language. On marketplaces, this prevents sellers from bypassing platform fees. On dating apps, it protects users from romance scams. The AI classifies link intent based on context, not just pattern matching.
External link detection is part of Lasso's text moderation pipeline. It runs alongside all of Lasso's other features. All text moderation categories share the same four-layer pipeline. Link detection results appear in the moderation dashboard alongside other classifications.
Lasso's external link detection catches the URLs that bypass every other filter. One pipeline, one API.
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