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Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security

Testimony

Questioner: James Lankford

Narrative: KnowledgeHarm: Child sexual exploitationHarm: Financial sextortion
Q. · Question

James Lankford

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionCiting a more-than-doubling of sextortion reports between 2019 and 2021, Lankford asks what Meta has done to address the trend.

ResponseMeta cites Meta-funded development of an NCMEC hashing platform letting minors privately hash their own images on-device to prevent non-consensual sharing (without uploading the images themselves), plus its 2019 "Stop Sextortion" hub built with Thorn and a Meta Family Center guide for parents talking to teens about intimate images.