How many children have to die before Instagram will do something?

"I have to tell you, our son is gone."

These are words no parent should ever have to hear or speak. But this is what Martin* had to say to his wife, Chantel,* over the phone one evening. 

Martin and Chantel's teenage son Jason* died by suicide after he was sexually extorted on Instagram. Sexual extortion (popularly referred to as "sextortion") is the use of sexual images to blackmail the person depicted. Recent data from Cybertip.ca found that in 88% of child sexual extortion cases, the perpetrator initially contacted the child on Instagram or Snapchat. 

As one Senator said in a recent hearing on Instagram's harms to children: "How many children have to die before [Instagram] will do something?"

Read more here.

📣 ACTION: Insist Instagram Prioritize Child Safety!

Washington Post: AI fake nudes are booming. It’s ruining real teens’ lives.

When Gabi Belle learned there was a naked photo of her circulating on the internet, her body turned cold. The YouTube influencer had never posed for the image, which showed her standing in a field without clothes. She knew it must be fake. 

But when Belle, 26, messaged a colleague asking for help removing the image he told her there were nearly 100 fake photos scattered across the web, mostly housed on websites known for hosting porn generated by artificial intelligence...

Artificial intelligence is fueling an unprecedented boom this year in fake pornographic images and videos. It’s enabled by a rise in cheap and easy-to-use AI tools that can “undress” people in photographs — analyzing what their naked bodies would look like and imposing it into an image — or seamlessly swap a face into a pornographic video. 

Read more here.

📣 ACTION: Get Equipped at the 2024 CESE Summit!

The impact emerging tech has on sexual exploitation is scary ... which is why we're focusing the next Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit on exactly these issues! 

Please join us and get equipped to navigate this new technological revolution, ensuring it becomes a force for good, NOT for harm!

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Highlights from October Congressional Briefing

"Rapists and traffickers use Pornhub to upload illegal videos. And we know this, because a senior employee of 11 years told me so. He says Pornhub doesn't care and does not intend to do the due diligence to fix these issues 'because it makes a lot of money and it would be counterintuitive to the business."

~Arden Young, Sound Investigations:

Sincerely,

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