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Snapchat failed to adequately warn its users about the extent of rampant “sextortion schemes” targeting underage users – even as employees debated internally about how to address the crisis ...
Sextortion – in which predators blackmail teen victims online – is growing during COVID, experts say. Snapchat is particularly vulnerable, but has not prioritized the issue enough, former ...
Snapchat (Snap) has been deceptively marketing itself to young people despite monumental risks of sexual scams (sextortion), according to New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torres. The state filed a ...
Snapchat is working to make it harder for teenagers to be contacted on the app by people they don’t know, its latest effort to stop the sexual and financial exploitation scam known as sextortion.
Snapchat allowed the sextortion of underage users and other dangerous behaviors to flourish while it struggled to find a way to address such issues without “striking fear” into its users and ...
Caleb Moore began talking to a 'woman' on social media and his mother claims he was a victim of a 'sextortion' scam, which led to his death.
Snapchat will ensure that strangers or lurkers don't contact teenagers easily. The new safety tool is created to stop sextortion on the platform.
Between October 2024 and March 2025, the FBI reported a 30% increase in reported sextortion crimes and the number of actual ...
Snapchat is accused of strict liability and negligence in a wrongful-death suit where a 13-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide after he was a victim of a sextortion scheme, according to the ...
"Sextortion," in which predators blackmail victims into sending them sexual images and videos of themselves, is spiking, experts say.
In addition to expanding Snapchat’s broader suite of youth safety measures, the new features are aimed specifically at preventing financial sextortion, a worrying and growing type of scam across ...