Meta announced today it’s helping finance a new organization called Take It Down that will, with the support of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), help young people under 18 years old prevent intimate images of themselves from spreading online. The system works similarly to an earlier Facebook initiative designed to prevent the spread of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes referred to as “revenge porn.”
Alongside the launch, Meta says it’s also rolling out new tools that will make it more difficult for “suspicious adults” to interact with teens on Instagram.
The company claims the new take-down system for non-consensual intimate i...