in the wake of the coroner’s ruling that the material the teenager viewed before her death “was not safe”.
Child online safety charities have documented the use of these “digital breadcrumbs” that signal abuse for years on Instagram. She said: “As a parent, you only get one chance at this and I promise you, the predators want the kids and the social media platforms make it so easy for them to get access to them.”
“Meta claims there’s ‘no place’ for child exploitation on its platforms. At the same time, it facilitates it. It is absolutely failing children,” she said. “These platforms cannot claim to care about children’s safety while they service networks of child predators and aid the growing, global trade in child exploitation material.”
Ms Kennedy described the internet as “a bottomless pit of risk for little girls”, explaining that although young boys are exploited too, it is largely images of young girls that are stolen by predominantly older men. Mr Collard from the NSPCC said: “Ultimately, a lot of these platforms have not been designed with the protection of children in mind, which has allowed abusers to really take advantage of the systems that exist to create ease of abuse and grooming.
However, parents can circumvent this rule by setting up accounts using their own birthday, meaning there are “countless accounts for people under the age of 13” who are at risk of exploitation, said Ms Kennedy.said it has a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of child sexual exploitation and that any content violating this policy is removed.
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