RT @CollectiveShout: Girls deserve better than the safety measures Instagram has offered to date. We will continue to highlight the ways girls are harmed on Instagram and call on Big Tech platforms to improve child safety.
RT @CollectiveShout: Instagram has not done enough to protect children + young people - girls particularly - from predatory men. Instead it has accommodated predators, aided their connection to underage girls and even normalised the sexualisation and ...
RT @CollectiveShout: See some recent examples in this thread: https://t.co/q9JUrn...
RT @CollectiveShout: We were pleased to see new measures rolled out earlier this year to improve child safety on Instagram. But we continue to document widespread predatory activity and sexualisation, harassment and grooming of children on the ...
RT @CollectiveShout: The reason? Instagram was 'only able to review content with the most potential for harm'. Why - at a time when experts warned about the increased risks for kids from online predators - didn't the actual exploitation of children ...
RT @CollectiveShout: After the COVID-19 pandemic was declared we were told repeatedly by Instagram's moderators that they couldn't review our reports at all - not even when our reports were about adults who exposed their genitals to little girls.
RT @CollectiveShout: We have reported hundreds of Instagram accounts connected to predatory activity and sexualisation/groom... of minors - see a small sample here: https://t.co/SJvnXd...
RT @CollectiveShout: Last year we exposed Instagram after documenting its broadcast of live sex acts to children: naked men masturbating in underage girls' Instagram lives One vicitm was 9 years old. Read more: https://t.co/V0gp0Z...
RT @CollectiveShout: Read this blog for a small sample of what we've seen, and why we joined the global call to Facebook to abandon its plans for Instagram Youth: https://t.co/9sdxT2...
RT @CollectiveShout: For over two years we've documented widespread predatory activity + sexualisation, harassment, grooming and exploitation of underage girls on Instagram, and called for changes to keep minors safe on the platform. ...
"We now know that Facebook routinely puts profit before kids' online safety" - @SenBlumenthal 'Facebook Grilled by Senators Over Its Effect on Children' More via @nytimes: https://t.co/3WNDCj...
RT @mike_salter: The fact that an app like this is lawful and can be downloaded from Google tells you everything you need to know about child protection priorities in the tech industry.
RT @mike_salter: And here's a reviewer stating that her 11 year old daughter was abused on the app. She calls the app a "pedos dream". https://t.co/ECG8nE...
RT @mike_salter: Currently reviewing criminal prosecutions in which Australian offenders have used Omegle to abuse children. Their Android app Omega is available on Google Play, despite a report in the last week that it is being used to live stream ...
RT @mike_salter: "Facebook argues that children are making their way on to social media apps anyway and lying about their age, so it is better to design special products for them" Alternatively, you could implement age verification mechanisms that ...
RT @mike_salter: Facebook wants to use "playdates as a growth lever" to infiltrate the lives of pre-teens, while encrypting Messenger so that online child sexual abuse will be impossible to detect. What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/m6eEms...
RT @johnc1912: So Facebook seemingly saw children as a "valuable but untapped audience". Who knew? Now they acknowledge this was "insensitive language." But it speaks to the underlying culture of the company. https://t.co/hiIzvE...
RT @6PR: The documents revealed that Instagram made body image issues much worse for one in three teenage girls. https://t.co/SQ4omA...
Save the date! To mark this year’s International Day of the Girl Child, we are hosting an advanced virtual screening of The Children in the Pictures - a groundbreaking documentary which highlights the vital work of Task Force Argos in combatting ...
RT @fairplayforkids: "Every single Senator who called out FB today should support @SenMarkey and @SenBlumenthal's KIDS Act, as well as proposed updates to COPPA, because we need laws to address the damaging design and predatory data collection ...
RT @fairplayforkids: "Through her evasions and non-responses, Antigone Davis made clear that Facebook will not make any substantive changes on its own. We urge Congress to launch an immediate investigation of Facebook and subpoena all of their ...
RT @fairplayforkids: "Facebook continues to push the fiction that their interest in Instagram Youth is driven by concern for children's safety when the company's own leaked documents make clear it's part of a larger strategy for growth and to compete ...
RT @fairplayforkids: "The company continues to view the fact that Instagram undermines teens' well-being as an inconvenient PR problem, not the pressing public health issue that it actually is." 2/
RT @fairplayforkids: Fairplay Executive Director Josh Golin on today's Congressional hearing with Facebook global chief of safety, Antigone Davis: "It is clear that nothing has changed at Facebook. despite being caught red-handed suppressing its own ...
Over 21 million reports of online child exploitation globally last year - concerns from law enforcement agencies as Facebook's rollout of end to end encryption 'could lead to a 70 per cent reduction in cyber tip-offs'. Read more: ...