Billionaire Makes BIG Announcement About Partnership to Save Children

Elon Musk, Tech billionaire and Twitter CEO has responded to French President Emmanuel Macron’s plea for Twitter to protect children on the internet. Musk has given a decidedly positive answer.

“Will the bird protect our children?” Macron asked.

“Absolument,” Musk tweeted back. He expanded on his response to a related tweet by saying that Twitter would “take action” to strengthen the protection of children from sexual exploitation.

Macron issued a statement before the tweet exchange: “We need to better protect our children on social networks and the Internet. To protect our children on the Internet, we need to better verify user age, better detect and stop sexual predators, and better identify and address bullying. We need to be more efficient in taking down content.”

The French President announced a new effort with social media companies to combat the exploitation of children on the internet: “Alongside our partners, today we are launching the Children Online Protection Lab. France, Estonia, New Zealand, Amazon, Dailymotion, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Snap, TikTok, and Qwant have signed up. All those who are willing should join us!”

 

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children which was established by Congress in 1984, reported that compared to 2020, reports of potential incidents of online child sexual exploitation soared 35% in 2021.

“A free and open secure internet is a powerful tool to promote connectivity, strengthen social inclusion and foster economic growth,” the charter for the Children Online Protection Lab states. “However, due to the misuse of digital tools and the lack of appropriate protection measures, children still experience violence and exploitation daily and in all countries. Thus, protecting children online remains a challenge.”

The charter also discusses the potential dangers faced by children on the internet.

“The tragedies that befall young people and their families around the world showed the importance of responding to risks of violence towards children, in particular, the exploitation and sexual abuse, including that leading to self-destructive behaviors sexual solicitations and advances facilitated by internet and technology, cyberbullying, cyber-pimping, human trafficking humans, exposure to violent content and detrimental, manipulation of information as well as the risks associated with the very use of technology such as those leading to an excessive use or devaluation of self,” the charter continues.

Those who agree to participate in the charter will pool their resources to “develop new initiatives” to protect children online.

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