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, this can make...

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) which has naturally...

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 this topic for...