Fighting child sexual abuse online
We invest heavily in fighting child sexual abuse and exploitation online and use our proprietary technology to deter, detect, remove and report offences on our platforms.
We partner with NGOs and industry on programs to share our technical expertise, and develop and share tools to help organisations fight CSAM.
Learn more about our child safety toolkit here.
Fighting abuse on our own platforms and services
What are we doing?
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Preventing abuse
We aim to prevent abuse from happening by ensuring our products are safe for children to use. We also use all available insights and research to understand evolving threats and new ways of offending, like for example in the case of AI-generated CSAM. We take action not just on illegal CSAM, but also wider content that promotes the sexual abuse of children and can put children at risk. -
Detecting and reporting
We identify and report CSAM with trained specialist teams and cutting-edge technology, including machine learning classifiers and hash-matching technology, which creates a “hash”, or unique digital fingerprint, for an image or a video so it can be compared with hashes of known CSAM. When we find CSAM, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which liaises with law enforcement agencies around the world. -
Collaborating globally
We collaborate with NCMEC and other organizations globally in our efforts to combat online child sexual abuse. As part of these efforts, we establish strong partnerships with NGOs and industry coalitions to help grow and contribute to our joint understanding of the evolving nature of child sexual abuse and exploitation.
How are we doing it?
We act on content like child sexual abuse material, grooming, sextortion, and more using a wide range of technological and human resources. You can read a high-level description of our approach, or dive deeper below into how some of our products deal with this type of abuse.