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

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Questioner: Lindsey Graham

Harm: Child sexual exploitationHarm: Financial sextortionDesign feature: Direct MessagingInitiative: U13 Classifiers/Age-VerificationInitiative: Privacy by Default (Teens)
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Lindsey Graham

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QuestionAsked what measures Meta takes to prevent and detect sextortion, including financial sextortion, in real time.

ResponseMeta describes a multi-pronged sextortion approach: policy bans, specialized detection teams, NCMEC referrals, default private/restricted-messaging settings for teens, and partnerships like Take It Down/StopNCII, while calling on Congress for app-store-level age verification.