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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 exploitationDesign feature: Direct MessagingInitiative: Encryption
Q. · Question

Lindsey Graham

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionAsked how Meta will prioritize the privacy of children/CSAM survivors whose abuse imagery continues to circulate, given the shift to default E2EE on Messenger.

ResponseMeta repeats its three-pillar safety approach for encrypted messaging (prevent, control, respond quickly), citing default private teen accounts, restricted DM settings, the new nudity-protection feature, and industry coalitions, but does not directly address CSAM survivors' ongoing exposure.