Top Social Media Including Instagram, Google Face Growing Child Abuse Report Numbers: US Child Safety Agency Sounds Alarm

Reports of online child abuse surged at the leading tech and social media firms over the last year, including Meta Platforms Inc’s META Instagram and Alphabet Inc’s GOOG GOOGL Google.
TikTok, Amazon.com Inc’s AMZN Twitch, Reddit Inc, and the chat apps Omegle and Discord Inc also saw increases, Bloomberg cites a Tuesday U.S. child safety agency report.
The agency received over 32 million reports involving online enticement, child sexual abuse material, and child sex trafficking in 2022, up by 2.7 million year-on-year.
While child sexual abuse material was the largest category, there was an 82% increase in reports regarding online enticement.
Reports from Discord and Omegle more than quintupled. Google’s reports more than doubled to 2.1 million. TikTok, Twitch, and Grindr also experienced sizable increases.
Other companies’ reports trended downward, including Meta’s Facebook, WhatsApp, and Dropbox.
Price Action: META shares are up 0.21% at $239.74 on the last check Wednesday.
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