We’re announcing that Facebook and Instagram are founding members of Take It Down, a new platform designed to proactively prevent young people’s intimate images from spreading online. We supported the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the development of Take It Down, building on the success of StopNCII, a platform we developed that helps…
Bullying used to be upsetting but contained. A victim would most often be verbally or physically bullied but once away from the “bully”, the victim would have a reprieve until perhaps the next interaction. Technology has resulted in a far worse form of bullying, known as “cyberbullying” which results in the victim never being able…
Preventing bullying begins at home when children are young, long before they go to school. Under the age of eight, a child’s mind is like a sponge because they don’t have the critical mind filter that adults have developed to determine what beliefs are acceptable or not. What they see, hear and feel goes straight…
