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Keeping youth and women safe on our apps has always been our priority. Over the past several years, we\u2019ve developed several tools and taken various initiatives to provide a safer online experience for teens and families. On Safer Internet Day 2023, we <\/span>launched<\/span><\/a> the first phase of our #DigitalSuraksha campaign. We took another step forward in our endeavor to create a safer and inclusive internet by hosting our Digital Suraksha Summit. The summit was attended by Smriti Z Irani, Honourable Minister for Women and Child Development along with various creators, psychologists, educators, CSO partners and members of parenting communities. We also announced a new platform Take It Down, created by National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) with Meta\u2019s support, to help young people tackle the issues of non-consensual intimate images.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n During the summit, Smriti Irani participated in a fireside chat with Antigone Davis, Meta\u2019s Vice President Global Head of Safety and Sandhya Devanathan, Vice President for Meta in India.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is important that companies like Meta align with the government\u2019s vision to keep people, especially women and youth, safe online. I would urge them to expand this important discussion to smaller cities of India \u2013 ensuring women and youth from every corner of the country feel safe to express themselves online and reap the benefits of the digital revolution that is sweeping the country today. I would also encourage companies like Meta to come forward and partner with the government agencies directly and responsibly on issues of women and child safety and mental health.<\/p>\n Smriti Z Irani, Union Minister for Women and Child Development<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n As part of Meta\u2019s <\/span>support<\/span><\/a> to NCMEC, <\/span>Take It Down<\/span><\/a> will soon be available in Hindi and several other Indian languages. Take It Down is a new platform to prevent young people\u2019s intimate images from being posted online in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When someone is subjected to the spread of their non-consensual images, their experience online can be scary and overwhelming. This can be even more traumatizing for young people when someone tries to misuse those images. To battle this issue and take back control of their intimate images, young people can go to TakeitDown.NCMEC.org to submit a case that will proactively search for their intimate images on participating apps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The platform allows people to only submit a hash \u2014 rather than the intimate image or video itself \u2014 to NCMEC. Hashing turns images or videos into a coded form that can no longer be viewed, producing hashes that are secure digital fingerprints. Once the hash is generated, we can use those hashes to find any copies or the images or videos, take them down and prevent them from being posted on our apps in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Keeping women and teens safe online is an industry-wide challenge, and we are committed to being a part of the solution. We take comprehensive steps to ensure the safety of women and teens not just on our platform, but online. We have policies and technology in place to safeguard women and teens, we offer tools to users, like blocking, comment filters and reporting. We also offer industry-leading resources developed with experts, and we helped found and support both StopNCII.org and NCMEC\u2019s Take It Down \u2014 two programs that help adults and teens prevent the non-consensual sharing of intimate images not only on our platform but on all participating companies\u2019 platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n Antigone Davis, Vice President, Global Head of Safety, Meta<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n As more youth take to our platforms to express themselves, we have partnered with Ministry of Women and Child Development to launch the #AmritGeneration campaign, which will encourage young people, many of whom are aspiring creators, to freely express their vision for the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Meta remains committed to driving digital inclusion in India through various programs and initiatives. Today, millions of women-led businesses and teens use our apps to express their authentic selves. For these women and teens to continue experiencing a platform that is enabling and empowering, there is a need to make online spaces safer. We are committed to building tools and resources that will make our apps and the internet more safe and inclusive.<\/span><\/p>\n Sandhya Devanathan, Vice President & Head (India), Meta<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Over the years, we have launched several tools while building various age-appropriate measures and tools to ensure young people, women, parents and children continue to feel safe online. We now default teens under 18 into private accounts when they first\u00a0 join Facebook and Instagram. We launched a <\/span>Family Centre<\/span><\/a> to access supervision tools which contains educational resources curated by leading youth as safety, privacy and well-being experts for parents and guardians. Teens can <\/span>restrict<\/span><\/a> unwanted interactions on their accounts which hides comments on their posts from a person that has been restricted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And we\u2019ve partnered with third-party experts to keep people safe:<\/span><\/p>\n Learn more about our <\/span>tools to keep young people safe on Instagram<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n
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