Meta & Children's Online Safety

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

Testimony

Questioner: Mike Lee

Narrative: KnowledgeHarm: Child sexual exploitationHarm: Financial sextortionDesign feature: Direct MessagingDesign feature: Friend/Account SuggestionsInitiative: Content Moderation
Q. · Question

Mike Lee

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionLee asks what Meta is doing about the sextortion crisis on its platforms, specifically regarding adults posing as children, and how it can improve.

ResponseMeta details its multi-part sextortion strategy — specialized detection/enforcement teams, automated financial-sextortion detection rules, NCMEC/law enforcement partnerships, default private teen accounts and messaging restrictions, Take It Down/StopNCII and Thorn/NoFiltr partnerships — and calls for congressional OS-level age verification legislation.