The international response to online child abuse continues to fall short. The problem is not that we lack known solutions or sufficient evidence to understand the challenge , it is that we have failed to apply existing tools fully, consistently, and in a globally coordinated fashion.
BOURNEMOUTH—A recent legal defeat for Meta should provide a new impetus for governments to crack down on the scourge of online child abuse. A New Mexico jury determined not only that the company’s platforms have exposed children to predators and sexually explicit material, but that it also misled the public about such risks.