"These findings show the scale of online blackmail that is taking place across the country, yet tech companies continue to fall short in their duty to protect children,"
"They have no interest whatsoever. As long as they get their money from marketing, that's good enough for them."
"I personally don't feel like they do enough to remove the damaging content fast enough and rely too heavily on AI rather than humans."
A U.K. NSPCC survey of 2,558 parents and carers found about one in five know and have supported a child who experienced online blackmail, and one in ten of those respondents' own children experienced blackmail online. Bad actors often initiate contact on public platforms before moving conversations to end-to-end encrypted messaging, complicating tracking and intervention. Only 43% of parents and carers judged tech companies effective at preventing online blackmail, and 37% judged the government effective. Participants blamed platforms for prioritizing profit and over-relying on AI. Generative AI is being used to produce compromising deepfakes from ordinary social media photos. The problem is also significant in the U.S., where the NCMEC reported 29.2 million child sexual exploitation incidents in 2024.
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