TikTok's child safety promise vs reality

Source : Kini News Lab

Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, BBC finds

Source : BBC

Many Child Safety Features on Social Apps Don’t Work, Report Finds

Source : The New York Times

Snap sued over rape of minor who connected to adult attacker on Snapchat

Source : City News Halifax

RNC investigating after St. John's youth targeted by online terrorist entity via Roblox

Source : The Telegram

Infinite Scroll: Groundbreaking study reveals ‘TikTokisation’ of children online

Source : 5 Rights Foundation

A ‘safe haven’ for paedophiles – thousands of children abused on Snapchat

Source : ITV News

Privacy Commissioner of Canada investigation into the Grok chatbot and sexualized deepfakes finds companies violated privacy law

Source : Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself

Source : The Guardian

Survey: Teens regularly see harmful content, messages on Snapchat

Source : Mashable

How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart

Source : 404 Media

Meta Deploys ‘Momfluencers’ to Counter Child Safety Criticism

Source : Tech Transparency Project

Big Tech turns to Sesame Street, Girl Scouts to deflect scrutiny over kids' screen time

Source : Reuters

Criminal gangs profiting as child sexual abuse websites double, experts say

Source : The Guardian

Ottawa warned about rise of pedophiles and violent extremists on Roblox

Source : The Logic

#ToddlerSkincare: the ‘dark and exploitative’ world of children’s beauty videos on TikTok

Source : The Guardian

Apple and Google Are Steering Users to Nudify Apps

Source : Tech Transparency Project

Children in UK report online sextortion attempts in record numbers

Source : The Guardian

Telegram hosts vast organised abuse networks in Spain and Italy, report finds

Source : Yahoo News

Behind the screens: The hidden crime epidemic swamping police

Source : Manchester Evening News

Amount of AI-generated child sexual abuse material found online surged in 2025

Source : The Guardian

Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case

Source : The Guardian

Heavy social media usage erodes young people's wellbeing, report finds

Source : Reuters

We Study Mass Shooters. Something Terrifying Is Happening Online

Source : The New York Times

Snapchat ‘is app of choice for sexual predators’

Source : Telegraph

Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement, say whistleblowers

Source : BBC

Children as young as five are 'livestreaming pornographic content for paedophiles on TikTok to fund video games', police experts warn

Source : The Daily Mail

How A.I.-Generated Videos Are Distorting Your Child’s YouTube Feed

Source : The New York Times

Meta’s AI sending ‘junk’ tips to DoJ, US child abuse investigators say

Source : The Guardian

Reddit hit with £14m fine after children’s privacy failures

Source : Independent

OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago

Source : The Wall Street Journal

Children in England ‘bombarded’ with online ads for harmful products

Source : The Guardian

‘Disturbing’: Australian government demands review of Roblox’s PG rating after reports of child grooming

Source : The Guardian

TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app. Here's how to stop it

Source : BBC

It felt hypocritical’: child internet safety campaign accused of censoring teenagers’ speeches

Source : The Guardian

Senators ask Meta why it waited so long to make teen accounts private by default

Source : The Verge

Millions creating deepfake nudes on Telegram as AI tools drive global wave of digital abuse

Source : The Guardian

Nudify Apps Widely Available in Apple and Google App Stores

Source : Tech Transparency Project

Meta CEO Zuckerberg blocked curbs on sex-talking chatbots for minors, court filing alleges

Source : Reuters

Extreme threats surge on social media, primarily targeting girls: child protection centre

Source : CBC News

Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris

Source : Wired

Grok Blames ‘Lapses In Safeguards’ After AI Chatbot Posts Sexual Images Of Children

Source : Forbes

Grok is undressing anyone, including minors

Source : The Verge

Are your child’s private chats safe? 9 in 10 Canadian teens surveyed targeted in private messaging, new research shows

Source : Durham Region

More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds

Source : The Guardian

OpenAI’s Child Exploitation Reports Increased Sharply This Year

Source : Wired

Meta’s “Trusted Experts” helped me run scam ads on Facebook and Instagram

Source : Reuters

Videos of sexually suggestive, AI-generated children are racking up millions of likes on TikTok, study finds

Source : CP24

Most U.S. Teens Use YouTube and TikTok Daily, Some ‘Almost Constantly,’ Survey Says

Source : New York Times

Social media use damages children’s ability to focus, say researchers

Source : The Guardian

YouTube Creators Find a New Consumer for AI Slop: Babies

Source : Bloomberg

Meta had a 17-strike policy for sex trafficking, former safety leader claims

Source : The Verge

Mosque shootings and far-right skins: Teens playing Roblox exposed to extremist content

Source : itv News

Social media’s beauty filters may look harmless – but they’re quietly affecting Black youths’ mental health

Source : The Guardian

AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches

Source : Futurism

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled

Source : 404media

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show

Source : Reuters

Dataset used to train AI models contains child sex abuse images, new Canadian analysis finds

Source : National Post

Exclusive: Instagram shows more ‘eating disorder adjacent’ content to vulnerable teens, internal Meta research shows

Source : Reuters

More than a quarter of Canadian teens have experienced sexual violence online

Source : The Conversation

Sextorters are targeting young boys online — and flaunting how rich the scam is making them

Source : CBC

TikTok recommends porn to children, says report

Source : BBC

Snapchat rapist used fear to blackmail children

Source : BBC

Elon Musk's X faces Canadian fine for not removing non-consensual intimate images

Source : Reuters

Pornhub Will Pay $5 Million Over Allegations of Hosting Child Sexual Abuse Material

Source : 404Media

Instagram’s chatbot helped teen accounts plan suicide — and parents can’t disable it

Source : The Washington Post

A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.

Source : The New York Times

Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images

Source : BBC News

Social media still pushing suicide-related content to teens despite new UK safety laws

Source : The Guardian

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info

Source : Reuters

TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor

Source : The Guardian

FBI and NSPCC alarmed at ‘shocking’ rise in online sextortion of children

Source : The Guardian

Facebook ranks worst for online harassment, according to a global activist survey

Source : The Verge

a16z-Backed AI Site Civitai Is Mostly Porn, Despite Claiming Otherwise

Source : 404 Media

Musk’s chatbot Grok posts antisemitic tirade on X

Source : The Washington Post

Four-year-olds ‘exploited’ by tech giants’ app store age ratings

Source : The Times

The startling truth about Spotify — it’s got a porn problem

Source : The Times

Accounts peddling child abuse content flood some X hashtags as safety partner cuts ties

Source : NBC News

Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists

Source : 404 Media

YouTube Loosens Rules Guiding the Moderation of Videos

Source : the New York Times

‘Sextortion’ Scams Involving Apple Messages Ended in Tragedy for These Boys

Source : The Wall Street Journal

AI TikTok Videos Promising Free Spotify And Windows Subscriptions Trick Users Into Installing Malware Instead

Source : Forbes

Spotify is scrambling to remove dozens of podcasts promoting online prescription drug sales

Source : CNN

Australian girl, 11, sexually abused by stranger after adding him to get Snapchat points

Source : the Guardian

These AI Tutors For Kids Gave Fentanyl Recipes And Dangerous Diet Advice

Source : Forbes

These Internal Documents Show Why We Shouldn’t Trust Porn Companies

Source : the New York Times

Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X

Source : 404 Media

Dozens of YouTube Channels Are Showing AI-Generated Cartoon Gore and Fetish Content

Source : Wired

Lawyers probe ‘dire’ conditions for Meta content moderators in Ghana

Source : digital journal

Instagram's AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists

Source : 404 Media

Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children

Source : the Wall Street Journal

Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages

Source : Wired

New 'Rape and Incest' Game Tests the Limits of Steam’s Sex Policy

Source : 404 Media

Social media firms profiting from surge in sextortion cases, experts warn

Source : The Independent

An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For

Source : Wired

Brainrot' AI on Instagram Is Monetizing the Most Fucked Up Things You Can Imagine (and Lots You Can't)

Source : 404 Media

People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes

Source : 404 Media

Pretty Vile:' Spotify Removes Andrew Tate 'Pimping Hoes' Class After Employees Complain

Source : 404 Media

eSafety report reveals serious gaps in how tech industry is tackling terror and violent extremism

Source : eSafety

Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence

Source : 404 Media

Meta, X approved ads containing violent anti-Muslim, antisemitic hate speech ahead of German election, study finds

Source : Tech Crunch

Sask. women find chat room sharing their intimate or sexualized images without consent

Source : CBC

Senator Pushes Zuckerberg on "Perverse Abuse" of Nudify Ads After 404 Media Report

Source : 404 Media

How Big tech’s ad systems helped fund child abuse online

Source : BBC News

Parents say Snapchat makes it easy for drug dealers to sell to their kids

Source : CBC

American teens are increasingly misled by fake content online, report shows

Source : CNN

Instagram Ads Send This Nudify Site 90 Percent of Its Traffic

Source : 404 Media

Gross AI Apps Create Videos of People Kissing Without Their Consent

Source : Futurism

Meta Says It Will End Its Fact-Checking Program on Social Media Posts

Source : The New York Times

Apple urged to withdraw 'out of control' AI news alerts

Source : BBC News

'Minion Gore' Videos Use AI to Post Murder to Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube

Source : 404 Media

Apple’s App Store Puts Kids a Click Away From a Slew of Inappropriate Apps

Source : The Wall Street Journal

Fentanyl Almost Killed Michael Brewer. Now He Wants Snap to Pay

Source : Bloomberg

'The work damaged me': ex-Facebook moderators describe effect of horrific content

Source : The Guardian

Schools face a new threat: "nudify" sites that use AI to create realistic, revealing images of classmates

Source : CBS News

Lawsuit: A chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits

Source : NPR

Australian children seeing gambling ads via Sportsbet filter on instant messaging app Snapchat

Source : The Guardian

Instagram actively helping spread of self-harm among teenagers, study finds

Source : The Guardian

‘Teenage girls are feeling vulnerable’: fears grow over online beauty filters

Source : The Guardian

Des images suggestives de jeunes filles générées par l’IA propulsées par Facebook

Source : Radio-Canada

Character.AI Is Hosting Pedophile Chatbots That Groom Users Who Say They're Underage

Source : Futurism

Sex bomb: The collateral damage of OnlyFans’ explosive success

Source : Reuters

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

Source : Politico

Snapchat most-used app for grooming, says NSPCC

Source : BBC NEWS

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 : Forbes

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

Bad science: AI used to target kids with disinformation on YouTube - BBC World Service (Video)

Source : BBC

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 : CNN

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

Billionaire Xavier Niel’s Telecom Giant, Free, Hosted 48% Of Child Sex Abuse Imagery Found During Two-Year Investigation, Says Nonprofit Group

Source : Forbes

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

Billionaire Xavier Niel’s Telecom Giant, Free, Hosted 48% Of Child Sex Abuse Imagery Found During Two-Year Investigation, Says Nonprofit Group

Source : Forbes

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