Press & Media: Track record of online harm

French families sue TikTok over alleged promotion of self-harm content

Source: Politico

Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram

Source: WIRED

TikTok can become addictive in less than 35 minutes, documents show

Source: Financial Times

Telegram app hosts 'underground markets' for Southeast Asian crime gangs, UN says

Source: Reuters

Australian court upholds order for Musk's X to pay $418,000 fine over anti-child abuse probe

Source: Reuters

Snap employees were well aware of the app’s child safety issues, newly unsealed complaint says

Source: The Verge

Federal Court of Appeal sides with privacy watchdog in long-running Facebook case

Source: CTV News

Rape and revenge porn: Serbian Telegram groups preying on women

Source: Digital Journal

How Telegram Became a Playground for Criminals, Extremists and Terrorists

Source: The New York Times

Don’t click this link: Illegal activity in Ads on Meta Apps linking to Telegram

Source: Cybersecurity for Democracy

Telegram apologises for handling of deepfake porn material

Source: BBC News

Apple Helped Nix Part of a Child Safety Bill. More Fights Are Expected.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Social media response to suicide and self-harm content ‘unfit for purpose’

Source: Molly Rose Foundation

Instagram is failing to crack down on hate speech against women politicians as elections near, advocacy group says

Source: CNBC

Parents still selling revealing content of their kids on Instagram, despite Meta's promises to ban the practice

Source: ABC News

Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers

Source: Financial Times

Google Search Includes Paid Promotion of "Nudify" Apps

Source: 404 Media

Roblox’s Pedophile Problem

Source: Bloomberg

UK watchdog accuses Apple of failing to report sexual images of children

Source: The Guardian

AI is overpowering efforts to catch child predators, experts warn

Source: The Guardian

Google’s Nonconsensual Explicit Images Problem Is Getting Worse

Source: WIRED

OnlyFans vows it's a safe space. Predators are exploiting kids there.

Source: Reuters

Financial sextortion most often targets teen boys via Instagram, according to new data

Source: NBC News

Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show

Source: The Wall Street Journal

AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hell

Source: 404 Media

Inside Snapchat’s Teen Opioid Crisis

Source: Rolling Stone

The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent

Source: Arstechnica

An Anonymous-Messaging App Upended This High School

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Meta releases 'sextortion' data after mum's criticism

Source: BBC News

How Broken Are Apple’s Parental Controls? It Took 3 Years to Fix an X-Rated Loophole.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

I Want That Sweet Baby’: AI-Generated Kids Draw Predators On TikTok And Instagram

Source: Forbes

The fan site authorities say is 'profiting from the exploitaiton and sexualisation of children'

Source: ABC News

On Instagram, a Jewelry Ad Draws Solicitations for Sex With a 5-Year-Old

Source: The New York Times

Meta’s Nudity-Blurring Feature to Deter Teen Sextortion Draws Fire

Source: BNN Bloomberg

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

Source: 404 Media

Google Hosted Over 100 YouTube Videos Promoting AI Deepfake Porn

Source: Forbes

AI Is Creating An Influx Of Child Sexual Abuse Images, Data Shows

Source: Forbes

Sextortion Scams Are Driving Teen Boys to Suicide

Source: Bloomberg

Sextortion scourge claims four Victorian teens as cyber-safety expert Susan McLean issues grim warning

Source: THE NIGHTLY

Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools

Source: The New York Times

A Deepfake Nude Generator Reveals a Chilling Look at Its Victims

Source: WIRED

Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content

Source: The Guardian

Violent online content 'unavoidable' for UK children, Ofcom finds

Source: The Guardian

How Facebook Messenger and Meta Pay are used to buy child sexual abuse material

Source: The Guardian

Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmates

Source: WIRED

Fake nude photos with faces of underage celebrities top some search engine results

Source: NBC News

A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men

Source: The New York Times

No Laws Protect People From Deepfake Porn. These Victims Fought Back

Source: Bloomberg

Violent online groups are pressuring youth into harming themselves, authorities warn

Source: CBC

Attacks in the metaverse are booming. Police are starting to pay attention.

Source: The Washington Post

Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’

Source: The Guardian

20 Years of Facebook: A Danger to Society

Source: The Tech Oversight Project

A Digital Pandemic: Uncovering the Role of 'Yahoo Boys' in the Surge of Social Media-Enabled Financial Sextortion Targeting Minors

Source: Network Contagion Research Institute

Meta is the world’s ‘single largest marketplace for paedophiles’, says New Mexico attorney general

Source: The Guardian

Child luring and exploitation through Snapchat is on the rise. Here's what you should look out for

Source: CBC

Child Endangerment in "Los Picus" Fan Groups: Facebook (Still) Has a Child Predation Problem

Source: Tech Policy Press

Court documents underscore Meta`s 'historical reluctance' to protect children on Instagram

Source: The Associated Press

Twitch ‘Clips’ Feature Is Used by Predators to Record and Share Child Abuse

Source: Bloomberg

Social media apps made $11 billion from children and teens in 2022

Source: CBS News

Ex-Facebook engineer reportedly suggested ending People You May Know recommendations of children to adults, but he says execs refused

Source: Business Insider

TikTok allowing under-13s to keep accounts, evidence suggests

Source: The Guardian

My 13-year-old daughter downloaded TikTok and six months later she was dead

Source: The Independent

Meta Is Struggling to Boot Pedophiles Off Facebook and Instagram

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Instagram's Algorithm Delivers Toxic Video Mix to Adults Who Follow Children

Source: The Wall Street Journal

At Meta, Millions of Underage Users Were an 'Open Secret,' States Say

Source: The New York Times

Omegle: 'How I got the dangerous chat site closed down'

Source: BBC News

Social media apps that facilitate sextortion blamed for not doing enough to prevent it

Source: CBC

Fake Nudes of Real Students Cause an Uproar at a New Jersey High School

Source: The Wall Street Journal

His Job Was to Make Instagram Safe for Teens. His 14-Year-Old Showed Him What the App Was Really Like

Source: The Wall Street Journal

X fined $610,500 in Australia first for failing to crack down on child sexual abuse material

Source: The Guardian

X Fumble First Big Musk-Era Test of Content Policies After Israel Attack

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Frances Haugen blew the whistle on Facebook two years ago. This is what happened next.

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

4Chan Uses Bing to Flood the Internet With Racist Images

Source: 404 Media

A Hollywood-Backed Nonprofit’s App Promises to Identify Sex Traffickers. But Critics Say it Endangers Survivors

Source: Forbes

People Use Find My iPhone For Long Distance Stalking – And There’s Not Much Apple Can Do

Source: Forbes

Norway asks EU regulator to fine Facebook owner Meta over privacy breach

Source: Reuters

A 23-year-old was arrested for gun possession. It led the FBI to a global Satanic Cult

Source: The Guardian

Steroid TikTok videos aimed at teens get millions of views on the app, according to report

Source: NBC News

The End of Privacy is a Taylor Swift Fan TikTok Account Armed with Facial Recognition Tech

Source: 404 Media

TikTok Hit with €345 Million Fine For Failing to Protect Children

Source: Forbes

Inside Apple's Impossible War on Child Exploitation

Source: Forbes

Paedophiles claim it's 'stupidly easy' to abuse children using virtual reality

Source: The Telegraph

Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale

Source: 404 Media

AI is acting 'pro-anorexia' and tech companies aren't stopping it

Source: The Washington Post

Twitter/X defends restoring account that shared child abuse material

Source: The Guardian

Facebook needs stricter rules banning gender-based violence, says Oversight Board

Source: The Verge

Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem

Source: The Verge

Mastodon Has a Child Abuse Material Problem, Like Every Other Major Web Platform

Source: Gizmodo

A friend-finding app offered a 'safe space' for teens - sextortion soon followed

Source: NBC News

Child predators are using Discord, a popular app among teens, for sextortion and abductions

Source: NBC News

On Facebook, DHS Investigates Plot to Enslave Female Prisoners

Source: Forbes

Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network

Source: The Wall Street Journal

FTC and DOJ Charge Amazon with Violating Children’s Privacy Law by Keeping Kids’ Alexa Voice Recordings Forever and Undermining Parents’ Deletion Requests

Source: Federal Trade Commission

Extremism Finds Fertile Ground in Chat Rooms for Gamers

Source: The New York Times

YouTube’s recommendations send violent and graphic gun videos to 9-year-olds, study finds

Source: The Winnipeg Free Press

Children find porn on Twitter more than anywhere else. Here’s how it lets them

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

TikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Twitter Criticized for Allowing Texas Shooting Images to Spread

Source: The New York Times

Big Tech-funded groups try to kill bills to protect children online

Source: The Washington Post

Pornhub cuts Utah residents’ access to its site in protest of age verification law

Source: The Guardian

How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking

Source: The Guardian

Twitter quietly changes its hateful conduct policy to remove standing protections for its transgender users

Source: NBC News

Germany Threatens Twitter with €50 Million Fine for Failing to Tackle Illegal Content

Source: Forbes

UK data regulator fines TikTok €13M for letting children under 13 on platform

Source: Politico

Snapchat tried to make a safe AI. It chats with me about booze and sex.

Source: The Washington Post

Zuckerberg Was Warned on Social Media Addiction, Filing Says

Source: Bloomberg

An ex-Pornhub moderator said some videos that should've been taken down were missed and 'stayed up for months'

Source: Business Insider

Men on Pinterest are creating sex-themed image boards of little girls. The platform makes it easy.

Source: NBC News

Elon Musk's Vision Of Trust & Safety: Neither Safe Nor Trustworthy

Source: Tech Dirt

ChatGPT Generated Child Sex Abuse When Asked to Write BDSM Scenarios

Source: Vice

Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk

Source: BBC News

Exclusive: Snapchat kicks few children off app in Britain, data given to regulator shows

Source: Reuters

Under-18 TikTok users to be limited to one hour - until they change settings

Source: The Guardian

Opinion: How Google ignores social media’s consequences for children

Source: LA Times

“Every parent’s nightmare”: TikTok is a venue for child sexual exploitation

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Now for sale: Data on your mental health

Source: The Washington Post

Twitter has axed Australian team that eSafety regulator contacted to report child abuse material

Source: ABC News

Virtual reality tech appearing in child abuse image crime reports for first time

Source: Yahoo News

Musk Pledged to Cleanse Twitter of Child Abuse Content. It’s Been Rough Going.

Source: The New York Times

Twitter suspended 400K for child abuse content but only reported 8K to police

Source: Arstechnicas

Google Cuts Company Protecting People From Surveillance To A ‘Skeleton Crew,’ Say Laid Off Workers

Source: Forbes

Meta is changing who handles content moderation in East Africa. It isn't changing the dismal state of how social media stays sanitized

Source: Business Insider

Make Big Tech managers personally liable for child safety breaches

Source: The Telegraph

Apple fined 8M euros in French privacy case

Source: Politico

On Musk's Twitter, users looking to sell and trade child sex abuse material are still easily found

Source: NBC News

Twitter said it fixed 'verification.' So I impersonated a senator (again).

Source: The Washington Post

Meta fined 390M euros in latest European privacy crackdown

Source: The Associated Press

Social media moderators 'forced to check' up to 1,700 videos a day to keep children safe

Source: The Telegraph

Facebook parent Meta agrees to pay $725 million to settle privacy lawsuit

Source: CNBC

Fortnite maker Epic Games to pay $520M in fines and rebates for duping users into downloading paid content

Source: CBC

TikTok self-harm study results 'every parent's nightmare'

Source: The Guardian

World-first report shows leading tech companies are not doing enough to tackle online child abuse

Source: eSafety Commissioner

Report: TikTok boosts posts about eating disorders, suicide

Source: The Associated Press

Amazon, Uber ads appear on Twitter pages of white nationalists restored by Musk

Source: The Washington Post

Mom is suing Pornhub's parent company over 'traumatizing' rape videos of her teenage son uploaded to site

Source: Business Insider

Facebook failed to block ads containing death threats to election workers: report

Source: The Hill

TikTok's Viral Challenges Keep Luring Young Kids to their Deaths

Source: Bloomberg

Meta Fined $277 Million for Leak of Half a Billion Users

Source: BNNBloomberg

Twitch is, Vaguely, Working to Fix its Child Predator and Groomer Problem

Source: Gizmodo

40 States Settle Google Location-Tracking Charges for $392M

Source: USNews

These TikTok Accounts Are Hiding Child Sexual Abuse Material in Plain Sight

Source: Forbes

Scammers Are Extorting Parents With Their Dead Children's Nude Images FBI Says

Source: Forbes

Instagram and Twitter failing to crack down on paedophiles stealing photos of child influencers

Source: inews.co.uk

The Internet Is Full of Predators. Omegle Lets You Meet Them.

Source: Mother Jones

For Sex Traffickers, Jack Dorsey's Cash App Is 'King'

Source: Forbes

Bill Outlawing Online Suicide Assistance Would Open Sites to Liability

Source: The New York Times

How Google's Ad Business Funds Disiniformation Around the World

Source: Propublica

Dared by the Algorithm: Dangerous challenges are just a click away

Source: Fairplay

Exclusive: Brands blast Twitter for ads next to child pornography accounts

Source: Reuters

TikTok may be fined £27m for failing to protect children

Source: BBC News

TikTok Faces Hefty Privacy Fine in UK Children's Data Probe

Source: BNNBloomberg

Meta executive apologises over inappropriate content seen by Molly Russell

Source: The Guardian

Child Predators Use Twitch to Systematically Track Kids Livestreaming

Source: Bloomberg

Meta Sued for Skirting Apple Privacy Rules to Snoop on Users

Source: BNN Bloomberg

Instagram fined €405m over children's data privacy

Source: BBC News

Apple, Facebook, Microsoft forced to come clean on child abuse material

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

'Scary easy. Sketchy as hell.': How startups are pushing Adderall on TikTok

Source: Vox

Meta's Facebook agrees to settle data privacy lawsuit

Source: Financial Post

An Instagram Sextortionist Tricked 30 Boys into Sharing Intimate Photos, FBI Says. One Took His Own Life

Source: Forbes

A website designed to talk to strangers has become a haven for child sex predators, expert says

Source: CBC

Twitter declined to remove sex video exploitating minors, according to lawsuit supported by powerful watchdog groups

Source: San Francisco Examiner

Twitter Faces Legal, Political Peril in Whistle-Blower Case

Source: BNN Bloomberg

Inside the secret world of trading nudes

Source: BBC News

TikTok's In-App Browser Includes Code That Can Monitor Your Keystrokes, Researcher Says

Source: Forbes

Twitter fixes security bug that exposed at least 5.4 million accounts

Source: TechCrunch

Meta's threat report highlights clumsy attempt to manipulate Ukraine discourse

Source: TechCrunch

TikTok Moderators Are Being Trained Using Graphic Images of Child Sexual Abuse

Source: Forbes

Judge refuses to remove Visa from Pornhub case on child porn

Source: Yahoo

These Companies Know When You're Pregnant- And They're Not Keeping it Secret

Source: Gizmodo

Chinese vaping giant flouting UK advertising rules on selling to children

Source: The Guardian

Children's rights groups call out TikTok's 'design discrimination'

Source: TechCrunch

Herbal Abortions Are Going Viral on TikTok. They Could Kill You

Source: Rolling Stone

Meta Failed to Protect Instagram's Child Models from Pedophiles

Source: Forbes

Upskirt photos shared in Facebook groups, BBC finds

Source: BBC News

Pornhub Parent Company's CEO and COO Resign

Source: Variety

Pornhub parent company MindGeek faces U.S. lawsuit over exploitation allegations

Source: CBC

Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows that US User Data has been Repeatedly Accessed from China

Source: Buzzfeed News

The Fight To Hold Pornhub Accountable

Source: The New Yorker

White supremacists are riling up thousands on social media

Source: The Associated Press

Wickr, Amazon’s encrypted chat app, has a child sex abuse problem — and little is being done to stop it

Source: NBC News

Your kids' apps are spying on them

Source: The Washington Post

Facebook fails again to detect hate speech in ads

Source: The Associated Press

A Platform 'weaponized': how YouTube spreads harmful content- and what can be done about it

Source: NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights

Uvalde gunman threatened rapes and school shootings on social media app Yubo in weeks leading up to the massacre, users say

Source: CNN

Before Massacre Began, Suspect Invited Others to Review His Plan

Source: The New York Times

Amazon pulls sexually explicit childrenswear from its Canadian site following complaint

Source: CBC

A teen girl sexually exploited on Snapchat takes on American tech

Source: The Washington Post

Failure to Protect: Social media copmanies are failing to act on antisemitism

Source: Center for Countering Digital Hate Inc.

How TikTok Live Became 'A Strip Club Filled With 15-Year-Olds'

Source: Forbes

Report: Hackers Have Been Sexually Extorting Kids With Data Stolen From Tech Giants

Source: Gizmodo

A barrage of assault, racism and rape jokes: my nightmare trip into the metaverse

Source: The Guardian

TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook Are Letting Climate Denial Run Rampant: Report

Source: Gizmodo

Their teenage children died by suicide. Now these families want to hold social media companies accountable

Source: CNN

Paedophiles hijacking Zoom to share animal pornography

Source: The Telegraph

Instagram under fire over sexualised child images

Source: The Guardian

TikTok is under investigation over spread of child sexual abuse material

Source: Protocol

How Instagram fails to act on 9 in 10 reports of misogyny in DMs

Source: Center for Countering Digital Hate Inc.

Hidden Hate: How Instagram fails to act on 9 in 10 reports of misogyny in DMs

Source: Center for Countering Digital Hate Inc.

Designing for Disorder: Instagram's Pro-eating Disorder Bubble

Source: Fairplay

Whistleblower accuses YouTube of allowing anti-Semitic content including videos calling Jews 'pigs'

Source: The Telegraph

A Facebook bug led to increased views of harmful content over six months

Source: The Verge

Facebook fails to label 80% of posts promoting bioweapons conspiracy theory

Source: The Guardian

Adults or Sexually Abused Minors? Getting It Right Vexes Facebook

Source: The New York Times

State attorneys want TikTok and Snap to support third-party parental control apps

Source: TechCrunch

Facebook’s most popular posts show how it’s vulnerable to exploitation, report finds

Source: The Washington Post

TikTok algorithm directs users to fake news about Ukraine war, study says

Source: The Guardian

‘Kill more’: Facebook fails to detect hate against Rohingya

Source: The Associated Press

Instagram Adds Parental Controls for the First Time

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Five years after launching Live, Instagram is adding moderators

Source: Protocol

Facebook Has a Child Predation Problem

Source: WIRED

Inside Pornhub

Source: The Verge

Metaverse app allows kids into virtual strip clubs

Source: BBC News

TikTok agrees to $2M settlement of Canadian class-action lawsuit over data collection

Source: The Logic Inc.

Facebook ‘has no data’ on how ‘dreadful’ posts shown to Molly Russell were selected

Source: The Telegraph

Inside Facebook's African Sweatshop

Source: TIME

Roblox: The children's game with a sex problem

Source: BBC News

Kids are flocking to Facebook’s ‘metaverse.’ Experts worry predators will follow

Source: The Washington Post

How data-hungry companies expose children to risk online: the case of recommendation systems

Source: 5Rights Foundation

Nick Clegg accused of turning a blind eye to online child abuse over ‘cynical’ Facebook decision

Source: The Telegraph

Mother of 11-year-old who died by suicide sues social media firms Meta and Snap

Source: The Washington Post

Nearly half of the accounts Twitter fails to remove for abusing women go on reoffend

Source: Center for Countering Digital Hate Inc.

Facebook's Metaverse: One incident of abuse and harassment every 7 minutes

Source: Center for Countering Digital Hate Inc.

Mother raises alarm on explicit Reddit posts featuring underage Sask. Girls

Source: Regina Leader-Post

Lawmakers urge the head of Instagram to better protect children.

Source: The New York Times

Instagram pushes drug content to teens

Source: NBC News

Three in four girls have been sent sexual images via apps, report finds

Source: The Guardian

Omegle, virtual video chat site that links random people, sued for allegedly exposing 11-year-old girl to sexual predator

Source: OregonLive.com

Roblox voice chat checks ID to keep kids safe, but slurs and sex sounds slip through

Source: The Washington Post

Facebook accused of continuing to surveil teens for ad targeting

Source: TechCrunch

Exclusive: Brands blast Twitter for ads next to child pornography accounts

Source: The Telegraph

Facebook apps used to groom 24 children every week

Source: The Telegraph

When one pill kills

Source: NBC News

The Facebook Files: A Wall Street Journal Investigation

Source: Wall Street Journal

TikTok faces privacy investigations by EU watchdog

Source: BBC News

The Facebook Files: Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show

Source: The Wall Street Journal

How TikTok Serves Up Sex and Drug Videos to Minors

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Instagram's age verification 'won't make a blind bit of difference', warns former Government advisor

Source: The Telegraph

Apple allows children to access casual-sex and BDSM apps, finds report

Source: The Guardian

Instagram fuels 70 per cent rise in online grooming of children

Source: The Telegraph

Staggering' fivefold rise in child sex images found on Facebook

Source: The Telegraph

Social media giants push self-harm, adult and crash diet posts to children as young as 13

Source: The Telegraph

Facebook is 'overwhelmingly' used by sex traffickers who recruit victims online, according to a new report

Source: Business Insider

Reddit faces lawsuit for failing to remove child sexual abuse material

Source: The Verge

Omegle: 'I'm being used as sex-baiting bot' on video chat site

Source: BBC News

Over a third of indecent images of children reported to police taken on Snapchat

Source: The Sun

Google under fire for showing rope adverts when people search 'suicide'

Source: The Telegraph

Facebook’s apps used in more than half of online child sex crimes

Source: The Telegraph

More than 70 lawmakers call for criminal investigation of MindGeek

Source: The Star

The Children of Pornhub

Source: The New York Times

Working at TikTok was like being in a ‘digital prison’, say ex-employees

Source: The Telegraph

Revealed: How TikTok banned paedophiles for just a week if they are caught messaging children

Source: The Telegraph

She Was Lured into Sex Slavery Through Facebook. Now She Wants to Stop Mark Zuckerberg From Making Victims ‘Invisible.'

Source: Vice

She Was Lured into Sex Slavery Through Facebook. Now She Wants to Stop Mark Zuckerberg From Making Victims ‘Invisible.'

Source: Vice

Pornhub Doesn’t Care

Source: Vice

TikTok Livestreamed a User’s Suicide — Then Got Its PR Strategy in Place Before Calling the Police

Source: The Intercept

Twitter accused of aiding child abuse by allowing 'explosion' of online paedophile communities

Source: The Telegraph

Child Abusers Run Rampant as Tech Companies Look the Other Way

Source: The New York Times

WhatsApp is failing to stop paedophiles sharing child abuse images, say police

Source: The Telegraph

Facebook's Bottomless Pit of Scandals

Source: CNN

Pornhub will allow children to watch porn on their smartphones and bypas

Source: The Telegraph

Facebook logged SMS texts and phone calls without explicitly notifying users

Source: The Guardian

Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images?

Source: The Guardian