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Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis (QFR Responses)

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Questioner: Richard Durbin

Harm: Child sexual exploitationHarm: Financial sextortionDesign feature: Direct Messaging
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Richard Durbin

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QuestionGiven that disappearing-message features have made Snapchat a hub for sextortion, what is Meta doing to prevent its own disappearing-message features (vanish mode, Messenger) from putting more kids at risk of sextortion?

ResponseMeta lists its anti-sextortion measures (policies, financial-sextortion detection automation, restricted adult-teen messaging defaults, Take It Down/StopNCII partnerships with NCMEC, screenshot notifications) but defends keeping the disappearing-message feature itself rather than describing new safeguards specific to that feature's sextortion risk.