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to coerce minors into sending graphic images and videos of themselves and then use the explicit material as blackmail, according to a lawsuit filed by New Mexico .
“Snap has misled users into believing that photos and videos sent on their platform will disappear, but predators can permanently capture this content and they have created a virtual yearbook of child sexual images that are traded, sold, and stored indefinitely,” Torrez said in a statement.The investigation by New Mexico’s state Department of Justice used a decoy Snapchat account impersonating a 14-year-old girl named “Heather,” who proceeded to exchange messages with an account called “child.
State investigators used a similar playbook in investigating Meta. They set up test accounts on the Meta-owned social media sites for four fictional children using AI-generated photos that purportedly portrayed children aged 14 or younger.
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