7 Cups teen safety: What you need to know
There are concerns that teens on 7 Cups are being targeted by predators.
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There are concerns that teens on 7 Cups are being targeted by predators.
Teens look for connection online. Predators exploit that.
A lack of physical safe spaces leads LGBTQ+ youth to seek acceptance in cyberspace, which puts them at risk for exploitation.
As government scrutiny heats up, Meta is rolling out more child-safety features, including parental controls for Messenger and anti-harassment tools on Instagram.
Dave Willner started working at Facebook in 2008, back when social media companies were making up their rules as they went along. As the company's head of content policy, it was Willner who wrote Facebook's first official community standards more than a decade ago, turning what he has said was an informal one-page list that mostly boiled down to a ban on "Hitler and naked people" into what is now a voluminous catalog of slurs, crimes and other grotesqueries that are banned across all of Meta's platforms.