What’s Snapchat? Social media platforms are typically made with the idea of connection but the way an app is designed can affect how safe or risky it is. Platforms typically have similar systems of communication. Most platforms save messages or posts , but what makes Snapchat different from other platforms is that it's built around the idea of temporary communication. Messages disappear and conversations are not automatically saved to be accessed later. For many young users,

Introduction: This Was Predictable In the social media space, there has been a rapid and haphazard implementation of AI models with none so bad as X’s AI model, Grok. Lately, the chat bot has been used to generate sexualized images from just a picture the original poster may have posted innocently with no wish for the child to be sexualized. This usually takes the form of X users asking Grok to “undress” these children to create explicit child sexual abuse material (CSAM) whi

Lets Shift from Fear to Prevention When discussing instances of child sexual abuse and exploitation, we often are focused on the perpetrator being punished, rather than addressing prevention. Effective prevention does not begin with labeling individuals, but rather understanding the patterns of risk in how manifestations of sexual harm develop, who is most at risk for causing it, and how early intervention can reduce and/or prevent harm all together. Researchers have studied

We are officially wrapping up our four part Roblox blog series by considering the serious reality of children becoming crime victims due...

Recently, my almost four year old son met another child during a high school soccer game we were attending. The approximately five year...

After sharing about the risk of exposure to inappropriate content in Part 1 of our Roblox blog series, we now want to address the...

Naive parents aren’t protective parents. Parents typically are not intentionally naive, but children are ultimately left at risk for...

In 2022, 7 children per day became victims of online exploitation (FBI, 2022). We use our phones for everything. Communicating with...