Meta, Instagram's parent company, has launched a campaign aimed at combating sextortion, focusing on raising awareness among teenagers. The initiative highlights the dangers of online exploitation, offering guidance on how to stay safe and report suspicious activity. With rising cases of sextortion targeting young users, Meta is working to protect teens by providing educational resources and safety tools on the platform.

Meta Launches Safety Features To Prevent Sextortion On Instagram

Meta: Instagram Launches Campaign To Combat Sextortion, Warns Teens

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used at alarming levels for generating child sexual abuse material (CSAM), with analysts saying that it has reached a tipping point.

AI-generated child sex abuse images, videos rising at alarming levels, warn internet watchdogs

A 29-year-old Australian man, posing as a famous YouTuber, has been convicted of blackmailing hundreds of girls online in “one of the most severe sextortion cases in the history of Australia.

Australian man posing as YouTube star jailed for ‘world’s most severe sextortion’

Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Monday it had issued an unprecedented alert to hundreds of thousands of education professionals over an increase in cases of financially motivated sexual extortion, including in schools.

UK crime agency alerts teachers on "sextortion" after rise in cases

With time, trends change, and in this digital age, every day a new scam comes to light. The latest scam to shock the world is called "sextortion" and the victims are young men.

Explained: 'Sextortion', the new 'Nigerian prince' scam on Snapchat and Instagram

Research by the top US investigation agency, the FBI, revealed that cybercriminals into sextortion are not even sparing the parents of dead teenagers who became their victims and took their lives.

Sextortion gets darker: Parents receive threats of their dead children's nudes being made public

Natalie Claus is a student at the State University of New York College at Geneseo. She is studying history at this university. Her studies were placed on hold in December 2019 when someone broke into her Snapchat account and sent 116 of her naked images to contacts, many of whom were also SUNY Geneseo students.

Nudes stolen online and distributed, girl hacks back, gets intruder jailed

Abused, trolled and barred from using the Internet, women are demanding a feminist Internet which gives them a free space

The Internet is bad for Indian women

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