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What a New Mexico court has ordered Meta to change for teenagers, and what it left out
The first court to hold a social media company liable for endangering children has set five years of supervised changes to Facebook and Instagram. The list is long; the gap in it is telling.
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Explainer AI companion chatbots and teenagers: what changed when Character.AI ended open-ended chat for under-18sGuide Violent online networks that target children: the warning signs the FBI wants parents to knowExplainer The Take It Down Act is now enforced: how to get an intimate image removed in the United StatesStatement Why KIFOV starts with a help directory, not a hotlineGuide Roblox Kids, Roblox Select and age checks: a guide for parentsAnalysis What a New Mexico court has ordered Meta to change for teenagers, and what it left outNews 21.3 million reports in a year: what NCMEC’s 2025 CyberTipline data shows about risks to childrenNews AI-generated abuse videos rose more than 260-fold in a year, the Internet Watch Foundation reports
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Analysis
What a New Mexico court has ordered Meta to change for teenagers, and what it left out
The first court to hold a social media company liable for endangering children has set five years of supervised changes to Facebook and Instagram. The list is long; the gap in it is telling.
Explainer
AI companion chatbots and teenagers: what changed when Character.AI ended open-ended chat for under-18s
Guide
Violent online networks that target children: the warning signs the FBI wants parents to know
Explainer
The Take It Down Act is now enforced: how to get an intimate image removed in the United States
Statement
Why KIFOV starts with a help directory, not a hotline
We could have launched with a reporting form and big promises. We chose to begin with something smaller that works: a checked, dated route to the people who can act.
Guide
Roblox Kids, Roblox Select and age checks: a guide for parents
Roblox now decides who your child can chat with by age group, and switches chat off for anyone who has not completed an age check. What changed, what you control, and what to keep an eye on.
News
21.3 million reports in a year: what NCMEC’s 2025 CyberTipline data shows about risks to children
Reports of online enticement rose 158% and child sex trafficking reports 323%. The figures are a record of what was reported, which is not the same as a measure of how often children are harmed.
The scale of the problem
Harm to children online is counted in millions. So must be the effort to stop it.
3,443
AI-generated child sexual abuse videos confirmed in 2025, up more than 260-fold
Source: Internet Watch Foundation98%
of sextortion cases the IWF handled in 2025 involved boys aged 14–17
Source: Internet Watch FoundationAccountability tracker
We hold platforms to their promises
Court rulings, new laws and platform changes that decide what companies must do for children, followed as they happen and linked to the original documents.
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Court-orderedNew Mexico, USMeta (Facebook, Instagram)
Court rules platforms a public nuisance; $942m in total and five years of supervised changes for under-18s.
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In effectGlobalRoblox
Age-based Roblox Kids and Roblox Select accounts; no chat without an age check.
Our analysis Original document -
Enforced by FTCUnited StatesAll covered platforms
Take It Down Act enforced: intimate images removed within 48 hours of a valid request.
Our analysis Original document -
Under enforcementAustraliaFacebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube
Regulator reports significant concerns on the under-16 minimum age and moves to enforcement.
Our analysis Original document
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We put the child’s safety ahead of headlines, traffic and our own reputation. We publish only what we can show. And we examine everyone with power over children’s lives online, from the largest platforms to the smallest apps, by the same standard.
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Directory of services · International
Verified 30 Oct 2026Find a child helpline in your country
A directory of child helplines around the world, listed by country with their contact details. Child helplines are run by organisations in each country to listen to and support children and young people.
- Run by Child Helpline International
Hotline for child sexual abuse material · International
Verified 30 Oct 2026Report child sexual abuse material to your national hotline
Explains how to report sexual images or videos of children found online, and links to the hotline for your country. You report the web address, not the files, and you do not need to give your name. INHOPE’s secretariat is not itself a hotline and cannot receive reports.
- Run by INHOPE
Help removing images · International
Verified 30 Oct 2026Take It Down
A free service that helps remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude or sexually explicit images or videos taken of you before you were 18. It creates a digital fingerprint of the image on your own device, so you do not send the image to anyone, and you can stay anonymous. It works on public or unencrypted platforms that have agreed to take part.
- Run by National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)
Directory of services · International
Verified 30 Oct 2026Find A Helpline
A directory of free, confidential helplines and crisis lines in many countries, searchable by country and by topic, for emotional support and crisis situations including thoughts of suicide.
- Run by ThroughLine
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