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💡 T&S Insights Session 💡 Thorn’s latest research outlines critical trends on a growing risk for online platforms, financial sextortion. Join us for an empowering webinar with Thorn’s Melissa Stroebel and 🦄 Amanda H. Volz, in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, as we delve into our insights, including perpetrator tactics and platform usage patterns, providing a comprehensive understanding of this growing threat. Why should you attend? 1️⃣ Understand the Risks: Gain crucial insights into the behaviors and risks associated with the financial sextortion of youth. 2️⃣ Learn Proactive Solutions: Discover how to implement both proactive and reactive measures to create safer online environments. 3️⃣ Expert Insights: Hear from leading experts in child safety technology and learn about holistic, scalable solutions to combat child sexual exploitation, including financial sextortion. This is an opportunity for trust and safety professionals to equip themselves with the knowledge and tools to mitigate this risk effectively on their platforms. Reserve your spot: https://lnkd.in/dNZwMcCX #FinancialSextortion #Sextortion #TrustandSafety

At Safer, we’re on a mission to create a safer internet by equipping trust and safety teams with the solutions and resources they need to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material and child sexual exploitation at scale. As we pursue a shared purpose of protecting online communities, we want to hear from you, the integrity professionals, about the challenges you face. Not seeing your top challenge listed? We invite you to comment below to share your insights and experiences. #TrustAndSafety

In-platform safety and reporting tools are essential for young users. Here’s why: Youth are far more likely to use these tools to report online sexual abuse than they are to seek support from a trusted adult offline. In fact, reporting may be the only time a child signals that something bad is happening to them online, underscoring the critical need for simple and easy-to-use safety tools. Check out these 10 considerations for creating effective safety and reporting tools for youth: https://lnkd.in/eaS4vBvv

What would your platform do differently if it knew that kids often rely solely on platform safety tools when facing harmful sexual interactions online? We think hearing from youth directly is critical for creating a safer online environment on your platform. Dive into our latest blog post where we share insights from our conversations with online users, ages 13-17. Discover how they interact with reporting tools, their challenges, and ways platforms can enhance safety features for kids in risky situations. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g3YZnSMw

As a trust and safety professional, your insights are invaluable in shaping a safer online environment for your platform. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the key priorities for improving child safety online. If you do not see your answer listed, please comment below! Stay tuned for more opportunities to engage with us and to contribute to enhancing online safety for children. #TrustAndSafety

Clear themes emerged from this year’s NCMEC CyberTipline report: We must consider advanced technologies as our allies in the fight against the rise in child sexual abuse and CSAM online. AI and machine learning tools, such as those used in Safer Predict, provide powerful scale and efficiency for detecting harmful content, including text-based child sexual exploitation. And, tech companies play a key role. It’s critical that platforms detect CSAM and child sexual exploitation and submit high-quality reports to NCMEC. The data can offer insights that lead to law enforcement investigations and child identification and rescue. Learn about the role technology plays in the fight against child sexual abuse and exploitation, as well as more insights from the NCMEC report: https://lnkd.in/gPAGAJKD

In our latest edition of Digital Defender Digest, we tackle pressing issues surrounding online child safety. Here’s what you need to know: • IWF’s recently published 2023 Annual Report • Impact of A.I.-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material on CyberTipline • Bipartisan legislation that will modernize and streamline how #CSAM is stored and reported Join the conversation on how we can safeguard platforms and protect children online.

Since online communities are already highly frequented by children, the urgency to safeguard them from exploitation and abuse and proactively address the risks to your platform has never been more critical. Whether you are building a platform from scratch or refining existing policies, we share the key considerations for fortifying your child safety measures: https://lnkd.in/gQHRZisv

Take our quiz - some of the answers may surprise you! Then find out how you can protect your users from bad actors and mitigate risks to your platform: https://lnkd.in/g7vg4Jsw

We’re thrilled to have attended the Trust & Safety Professional Association’s EMEA Summit, focusing on the power of collaboration within the TSPA community. It's inspiring to see so many dedicated professionals coming together to create a safer internet for all.