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Roblox child safety
- Roblox has been put on notice yet again over child safety concerns. What do parents need to know? - The Conversation — The Conversation
- Senate panel investigates kids safety issues in online game Roblox - The Hill — The Hill
- Australia secures court-enforceable child safety undertaking from Roblox - Reuters — Reuters
- Texas says Roblox exposed kids to predators. Roblox is fighting back. - Austin American-Statesman — Austin American-Statesman
AI chatbot risks to children
- I’m a pediatrician. AI chatbots are grooming my patients - STAT — STAT
- Roblox shares AI child-safety tools parents should know - Fox News — Fox News
- Young people are turning to AI after online harm: Youth Perspectives Survey 2025. - thorn.org — thorn.org
- Brazil sues Discord for $100 mn in child safety case - ABS-CBN — ABS-CBN
Sextortion & scams targeting minors
- What is sextortion: Two Nigerians dey face accuse of sextortion for US - Wetin be sextortion and possible jail term for offenders - BBC — BBC
- 2 more men charged amid investigation into Peters Township "catfishing" and "sextortion" scheme - CBS News — CBS News
- Ventura County teens targeted in growing online sextortion scheme - KTLA — KTLA
- Inside sextortionists' twisted world of black magic and blood sacrifice — which are killing US teens - New York Post — New York Post
Online grooming & arrests
- 5 arrested in San Francisco child predator sting - NBC Bay Area — NBC Bay Area
- Florida 'dope-smoking' pastor accused of sexually abusing teen, exposing him to HIV - WPEC — WPEC
- Lee County sheriff praises SRO role after child’s online grooming complaint sparks arrest - WAPT — WAPT
- The sadistic online groomers targeting victims around the world – and a mother’s struggle to keep her daughter safe - The Guardian — The Guardian
Deepfakes & child safety
- Synthetic Abuse, Real Consequences: Confronting the Challenge of AI-Generated CSAM - National Association of Attorneys General — National Association of Attorneys General
- Former sexual abuse victims say Grok used their images, videos to train deepfake capabilities - CyberScoop — CyberScoop
- New federal lawsuit alleges Grok AI tool used to produce sexualized images of 16-year-old - Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette — Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- New laws make it easier to arrest child predators for deepfakes, officials say - WWLTV.com — WWLTV.com
Social media & child safety policy
- Pritzker signs law regulating how social media platforms interact with children - Capitol News Illinois — Capitol News Illinois
- Meta, states agree to $17 billion settlement in child safety trial - NPR — NPR
- Meta told to pay another $567m in New Mexico child safety lawsuit - BBC — BBC
- Attorney General Schwalb Announces That Meta Will Pay Up to $17.1 Billion for Exploiting Kids with Intentionally Addictive Social Media Platforms - District of Columbia | Attorney General (.gov) — District of Columbia | Attorney General (.gov)