Abuse Archives

Instagram said the fine concerned settings that were already changed and that it plans to appeal

World

Instagram ‘most important platform’ for child sex abuse networks: report

Instagram is the main platform used by pedophile networks to promote and sell content showing child sexual abuse.

AFPJune 8, 2023

Voxer co-founder Tom Katis said communications system 'shortcomings' encountered when his US Army unit was ambushed in Afghanistan led to patented technology at issue in his lawsuit against Facebook and Instagram

Business

Instagram ‘most important platform’ for child sex abuse networks: report

Instagram is the main platform used by pedophile networks to promote and sell content showing child sexual abuse.

AFPJune 7, 2023

Coin-size Bluetooth tracking devices such as Apple AirTag designed to help people find lost items have been used by stalkers to secretly map locations of unsuspecting victims

Business

Apple and Google aim to expose Bluetooth tracker abuse

Apple and Google on Tuesday proposed a tech standard to make sure people get tipped off when their movements are being tracked with Bluetooth...

AFPMay 2, 2023

The 'Rape Day'hoax is an example of what researchers call 'zombie' falsehoods that keep resurfacing despite being debunked

Social Media

‘Zombie’ misinformation: ‘Rape Day’ hoax resurfaces on TikTok

The hoax that rape was legal for a day was knocked down by fact-checkers two years ago. But it went viral again this year...

AFPApril 30, 2023

Indigenous women await the arrival of Pope Francis in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, in July 2022.

World

Vatican rejects doctrine used to justify colonial abuse

The Catholic Church took a fresh step Thursday in acknowledging abuse endured by Indigenous peoples with the Vatican formally rejecting 15th-century papal edicts that...

AFPMarch 30, 2023

German Jesuit priest Hans Zollner talks to journalists following a press conference held by an independent commission for the study of sexual abuse of children in the Portuguese Catholic Church last month

World

Key pope advisor says quits Vatican abuse body over failures

The most influential member of a Vatican commission on tackling clerical sex abuse said Wednesday he has quit over “structural and practical issues” which...

AFPMarch 29, 2023

A new book accuses the late pope John Paul II of covering up child abuse

World

Pope John Paul II helped ‘cover up’ child abuse in Poland, says book

John Paul II “knew” about cases of child abuse by Catholic priests in Poland and helped cover them up before becoming pope in 1978,...

AFPMarch 9, 2023

'We have to change the culture of the church,' said Jose Ornelas Carvalho (right), bishop of Leiria-Fatima

World

Portugal’s Catholic Church asks abuse victims for pardon

Portugal’s Catholic Church on Friday asked victims of child sexual abuse by the clergy for forgiveness, following the publication of an independent report that...

AFPMarch 3, 2023