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The process of online enticement and its effects on children.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) operates the CyberTipline as the United States’ centralized reporting system for suspected online child sexual exploitation and related mat...
Federal law requires online providers to report apparent child sexual exploitation to NCMEC’s CyberTipline and sets baseline content-retention and reporting-contact rules, while the 2024 REPORT Act ex...
broadened what online platforms must send to the , adding mandatory reporting of and and extending the minimum preservation window for CyberTipline submissions from 90 days to one year . Early signals...
and social media have become central vectors in contemporary missing‑child trends: platforms both enable grooming, sextortion and recruitment that lead to children running or being lured away, and the...
The ’s largest single reporting category historically has been (often labeled “child pornography” and covering possession, manufacture and distribution), with tens of millions of items reported in rec...