Proactively identify, remove, and block accounts and bots that are posting and promoting pornographic content and/or selling sex with greater efficiency and proactive measures.Automatically detect sexually explicit related text, images, and emojis just as Snap is doing for drug-related content.Provide messaging to minors who are about to send nude images about the risks. Automatically block sexually explicit images (especially those sent to minor accounts) and accompany them with warnings, resources, and prompts to report, block, and remove such accounts.See our Notification Letter to Snapchat here. Review the proof we’ve collected, read our recommendations for improvement, and see our notification letter to Roblox for more details. Research, law enforcement, survivors, lawyers, and other child online safety experts consistently name Snapchat within the top three most dangerous platforms for children-and available data on child online exploitation confirms this assessment. Instead, Snap continues to keep and even add yet riskier features, such as My Eyes Only, Speed filter, Snap Streaks, and MyAI. Snap knows how dangerous its platform is but has done little to resolve the issues. Samantha herself attempted suicide twice as a result of the exploitation she experienced on Snapchat and other social media platforms. Samantha’s lawsuit is only one of many, in which the tech company is being sued for causing grave harm to minors-including leading to their sexual exploitation and sometimes death. Samantha is a pseudonym, but the narrative is based on true events, as alleged in a lawsuit against Snap (the owner of Snapchat). She could continue sending videos to Matthew safely, in peace.īut she was not safe. Thank goodness for Snapchat’s brilliant design features. As she hid the sexually explicit videos in the passcode-protected folder, relief slowly seeped into her body.
What would her parents think if they found out? With trembling fingers, Samantha frantically sought out Snapchat’s “My Eyes Only” feature. Immediately, Samantha felt shame and fear wash over her. And Matthew was twenty-two.īut this kind of thing was safe on Snapchat, right? The videos would automatically disappear after Matthew looked at them. Samantha* chewed her lip as she stared at the request for a sexually explicit video.
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