Dear Friend,

“We’ve reviewed the content, and didn’t find a violation of our policies, so no action will be taken at this time.”

That is what Twitter wrote to a high-school student who was begging for help.

“What do you mean you don’t see a problem?” the boy responded. “We both were 13 years of age. We were baited, harassed, and threatened to take these videos that are now being posted without our permission.”

The NCOSE Law Center is presently representing two young men who were sexually abused and trafficked on Twitter in a groundbreaking lawsuit against the Big Tech giant. In the case of one of the young men, when he was 13 years old, he thought he was chatting online with an adolescent girl and exchanged nude photos.

It quickly became apparent that the “girl” was a sex trafficker posing as a child and who then tried to blackmail the young boy by telling him to send him more pornographic videos. Out of fear, he complied, but stopped communicating with the traffickers and thought he was free. But he wasn’t.

A couple of years later, when he was 16, the videos and images resurfaced in a compilation video that was broadly distributed on Twitter. When the boy and his family found out, they reached out to Twitter, asked to have this removed and provided proof of age. But instead of removing the videos, Twitter did nothing, even reporting that the obvious child sexual abuse material (CSAM) did not violate any of their policies! As a result, more than 167,000 views were made of the video before the direct involvement of a law enforcement officer finally got Twitter to take it down.

But here’s the good news: A federal court has ruled that our lawsuit against Twitter can move forward… the first time a lawsuit like this against the social media titan has not been dismissed. With these two boys, the NCOSE Law Center is taking on Goliath and winning! The influential technology-news website The Verge recently discussed this case in a long article about Twitter’s poor record of allow child sex abuse material on its platform. You can learn more about the NCOSE Law Center’s strategy to hold Big Tech accountable here.

You can help us stop other children and families from experiencing this trauma by holding Big Tech and social media platforms such as Snapchat and Twitter accountable NOW! We need to raise $130,000 to file four more lawsuits against Big Tech and Big Porn before year’s end so they can no longer ignore the pleas to stop facilitating the trafficking of children. Will you partner with us to ensure that our children can safely navigate the Internet without facing threats from those seeking to them harm? Thank you!

Sincerely,