The Technology Alliance, a group of technology companies that develops approaches and policies to combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), today announced the launch of new software, Lantern, designed to enable social media platforms to share “signals” about activity and abuse. Accounts that may violate our policies against sexual exploitation and abuse.
Platforms participating in Lantern — which so far include Discord, Google, Mega, Meta, Quora, Roblox, Snap, and Twitch — can upload flags to Lantern about activities that conflict with its terms, The Tech Coalition He explains. Signals can include information associated with accounts violating the policy, such as email addresses and usernames, or keywords used Husband As well as buying and selling child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Other participating platforms can then select from the signals available in Lantern, trigger the signals selected on their platform, review any activity and content on which the signals appear and take appropriate action.
During a pilot program, The Tech Coalition, which claims Lantern has been in development for two years, said file hosting service Mega shared URLs that Meta used to remove more than 10,000 Facebook profiles, pages, and Instagram accounts.
“because [child sexual abuse] It extends across platforms, and in many cases, any company can only see part of the harm facing a victim,” The Tech Coalition wrote in a blog post. “To uncover the full picture and take appropriate action, companies need to work together.”
Despite disagreements about how to address child sexual abuse without stifling online privacy, there is concern about the breadth of child abuse material – both real and real. com. deepfaked – Now circulating on the Internet. In 2022, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received more than 32 million reports of child sexual abuse.
Latest RAINN and YouGov reconnaissance It found that 82% of parents believe the technology industry, especially social media companies, should do more to protect children from online sexual abuse and exploitation. That prompted lawmakers to act — albeit with… mixed results.