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Meta has introduced a new tool for teenagers that will allow teenagers to remove 'nude', or 'sexually explicit' images easily from Facebook and Instagram which were uploaded by them on past.
This new tool is called "Take it Down" and is operated by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Take it Down is a free service that allow teens or their parents anonymously submit photos or videos they fear might be uploaded to the internet or that have already been distributed online.
Such photos can be submitted to a web-based tool that will convert the images into digital fingerprints known as hashes, which will be sent to NCMEC and shared with platforms. The social media sites will use hash-matching technology to find and block any attempts to upload the original images.
Apart from Facebook and Instagram, the other participating platforms are Yubo, OnlyFans and Pornhub, owned by Mindgeek.
This new tool has been made to combat the rising problem of 'sextortian', in which teenagers are coerced or deceived into sharing intimate images with another person online, then they were threatened or blackmailed with the one having those images to be published on internet.
Some offenders are motivated to extract even more explicit images from the child while others are seeking money.
Take It Down hashes the images in the browser, so they don’t leave the device of the child or parent.
If the extorter tries to upload the original images, the platform’s hash-matching technology will detect a match and send the newly uploaded image to a content moderator to review.
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