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Whether known and novel abuse material is found at all, and across which surfaces of the product.
Hash matching on publicly posted media
Hash matching and classifier detection are applied across public surfaces. [1]
Hash matching on private messages and attachments
Server-side matching is unavailable on the primary messaging surface following the default encryption rollout. [2]
Classifier detection of previously unseen material
Classifier detection for previously unseen material is described and contributed to industry programmes. [1]
Detection applied to live and streamed video
Live surfaces are covered.
Detection of grooming and solicitation in text
Behavioural detection of adult accounts seeking contact with minors is described with published intervention volumes. [1]
Participation in industry hash-sharing programmes
Founding participant in industry hash-sharing programmes.
What the operator tells NCMEC, law enforcement and the public, and whether those disclosures can be checked.
Files CyberTipline reports to NCMEC
Files the large majority of all CyberTipline reports received. [3]
Publishes child-safety enforcement figures
Quarterly enforcement reporting breaks out child endangerment by surface. [1]
Report quality sufficient for investigation
Report content is described as including the metadata investigators require.
Reporting cadence and timeliness
Reporting is filed on detection.
What happens after material is found: how fast it comes down, what happens to the account, and whether the decision can be contested.
Time to removal of confirmed material
Proactive removal rates are published; absolute latency is not.
Account termination on confirmed violation
Termination on confirmed violation.
Prevention of re-registration
Re-registration controls are described. Effectiveness is not published.
Preservation of evidence
Preservation practice is documented.
Escalation of imminent-harm cases
Imminent-harm escalation documented.
The design decisions that determine how much abuse is possible in the first place, before any detection is applied.
Protective defaults for minor accounts
Teen accounts default to private with restricted messaging. [1]
Restrictions on adult-initiated contact with minors
Adults cannot message unconnected teen accounts. [1]
Age assurance at registration
Age estimation is applied to some flows. Registration remains self-declared.
Recommendation systems assessed for minor-safety harm
Recommendation systems have been the subject of regulatory findings that they connected adult accounts with minors. [4]
Encryption posture and stated mitigations
Compensating measures for the encrypted surface are described as metadata and behavioural signals plus user reporting. Their effectiveness relative to the prior server-side detection has not been published. [2]
Published child-safety policy with defined enforcement
Policy is published with stated enforcement.
Documented failures, enforcement actions, litigation and investigative reporting bearing on the assessment above.
2023-12
The change removed server-side content matching from the surface that had generated a substantial share of the operator's CyberTipline reporting. Child-protection organisations and several governments objected. [2]
2024-11
Regulators found that recommendation and discovery systems had surfaced minor accounts to adult accounts exhibiting predatory behaviour. [4]
Meta · 2025
Meta · 2023-12
NCMEC · 2025
Illustrative placeholder · 2024-11
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