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Comment sections at the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and newsrooms across 30 countries run on Coral (also known as Talk) - the platform built by journalists' technologists, started under the Mozilla Foundation and now stewarded by Vox Media as an Apache-2.0 project serving 23 languages. Its founding premise is that online comments are broken and moderation is the fix. Moderators get a full queue system - reported comments, system-held pending comments, and configurable pre-moderation - backed by AI toxicity scoring that warns commenters before posting and holds high-scoring comments for review, Akismet spam detection, banned and suspect word lists, and automatic repeat-offender handling that pre-moderates users whose rejection rate crosses a threshold. Readers get features designed for healthier conversation: journalist badges in threads, muting of annoying voices, notifications, instant new-comment alerts, and timeouts rather than just bans. For publishers the economics are the point - no ads, no trackers, no hidden pixels anywhere in the code, full ownership of audience data, and GDPR compliance beyond requirements. Integration is one embedded script; SSO connects existing registration, and a GraphQL API supports customization and extension.